Apostle Kure To Buhari: Handle Plateau Attacks With Wisdom Or Resign
BY AMOS TAUNA, KADUNA – The Secretary General of Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria,
Apostle Emmanuel Kure, has enjoined President Muhammadu Buhari to employ wisdom in tackling insecurity from degenerating to complete anarchy in the country.
In view of the recent attacks on some villages in Plateau state that left over 200 people dead, many injured and others missing, the cleric stressed that urgent steps must be taken to restore sanity in the system to avoid complete breakdown of law and order in the country.
Speaking during a special prayer programme for Nigeria, Kure also challenged the Kaduna state government to take pre-emptive measures at ensuring that the attacks do not spread to Southern Kaduna.
In his message to the President, Kure who is the Champlain of Throne Room Ministry, Kafanchan, said the Plateau State attacks should be a wake-up call to President Buhari in view of the dozens of lives that got lost in a single day.
He added that Nigerians were desperate for pragmatic security measures that would stem the killings across the country adding that the President has to provide the needed security.
Kure appealed to the youths in Plateau state to hold their anger and refrain from venting it out as it would only result in more bloodshed and also appealed to all stakeholders in Plateau State to unite for the sake of their survival.
While asking the President to resign if the task of presiding over the affairs of the country proves too difficult for him, Kure called on All Progressives Congress (APC) to choose another presidential candidate in 2019 and if it refuses, “then God’s will be done.”
On his advice to the Kaduna state government, Kure said the pattern in previous attacks was that once communities in Plateau state get attacked, then villages in Southern Kaduna will start getting attacked too.
He then called on the security agencies to stay alert and do all that is possible to ensure nothing happens in Southern Kaduna.
In his sermon, the former chaplain of the Aso Rock Chapel, Reverend Williams Okoye, who spoke on the topic: ‘Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven’, said the Church was expected to play a prominent role in the rebirth, reformation and reconstruction of the country through a re-definition of the nations’ morality, code of conduct and discipline.
Okoye said; “We must, therefore, strive to make the fear of God and righteousness the foundation upon which this nation is built if we expect to see the turn-around in the fortunes of our beloved nation.”
The monthly prayer programme tagged ‘Wings of the Spirit’ had in attendance, elder statesman, Professor Jerry Gana, former Minister of Communication, Labaran Maku, former governor of Plateau State, Senator Jonah Jang, Senators, members of the House of Representatives and State Assembly lawmakers from Kaduna, Plateau, Taraba and Nasarawa states.
The programme also had in attendance guests from Zimbabwe, Cameroun and other African and Caribbean countries
