Former first vice president of Living Faith Church, also known as Winners’ Chapel, Bishop David Abioye, has slammed Christian and political leaders in the country denying genocide against people of their own faith.
The Federal Government has denied claims made by United States senator, Ted Cruz, who bemoaned killings of Christians in the northern part of Nigeria, particularly in the North-central, where Fulani terrorists and bandits have murdered hundreds of Christians, razed churches and left millions displaced.
Cruz, alongside other Christian leaders in the US, have urged President Donald Trump to restore Nigeria to the list of Countries of Particular Concern (CPC) in which people of certain religion are targeted.
President of the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN), Bishop Wale Oke, has also said there is genocide in the country but urged the government to end the killings of Muslims and Christians by terrorists.
Speaking during a thanksgiving service on October 26, Abioye who is the Global Lead Pastor of a home-based Church, Living Word Conquerors Global Assembly. said leaders claiming there is no genocide against Christians in the country are doing so for their selfish interest.
“I’ll like us to pray for our brethren in Plateau State, Benue State, that the Lord will keep them in the faith. Other boundaries of other states, particularly in the North-east, in the Middle Belt, we will keep praying for them. There is a lot of distortion going on, people claiming that there is no genocide of Christians in the nation,” he told the congregation.
“Information with facts cannot never be thwarted. You see people buried in hundreds and you say there is no genocide. What a wicked set of people. Agreed there are people killed in other places for other reasons but this one is very clear. And gradually it is eating down to the South; South-west, South-east, and many so-called leaders for their personal interest are claiming it is not true.
“Selling out their faith, if they have it at all. Jesus said when I come, will I find the faith and we are standing here to say to Jesus ‘the faith will keep standing.’”
