Convener of Save Nigeria Group (SNG) and founder of Lagos-based Latter Rain Assembly, Pastor Tunde Bakare has come under heavy attack for calling for a revolution because certain religious leaders have acquired private jets.
The General Secretary of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Rev. Musa Asake; Director of National Issues of CAN in charge of North West Zone, Rev. Haruna Karatu; and the PRO of 19 Northern states and Abuja CAN, Elder Sunday Oibe have condemned Bakare’s comment, stressing that there was nothing wrong with people donating aircraft to their religious leaders.
The vice-presidential candidate in the 2011 election was last week quoted to have said that a bloody revolution that would wipe out religious leaders who are acquiring private jets would soon break in Nigeria.
The cleric-turned politician urged church members to challenge them to explain the source of their wealth.
Reacting to Bakare’s comment, the CAN secretary said: “What is wrong with giving a birthday gift to Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor? Did he embezzle church money? Did he collect somebody’s money? If a group of people come together to buy him a jet to ease his evangelical work, why should that be a subject of public debate? “Oritsejafor is a man of God. He is doing everything for the work of God”. Adding their voices to the issue, former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Mallam Nasir el Rufai, Elder Eghes Eyieyien said Nigerian pastors who own private jets should explain to the congregation how they made their money.
“Redeemed Christian Church of God has thousands of branches and millions of members on all continents of the world. Winners’ Chapel and Christ Embassy equally have many international branches and hundreds of thousands of members. Pastor Adeboye, Bishop Oyedepo and Pastor Oyakhilome travel thousands of kilometres monthly doing God’s work and have to be in places not well-served by commercial flights” The CAN secretary had affirmed
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