Beloved, the scriptures declare that God is not the author of confusion (1Cor14:33). But our country, Nigeria, is in confusion, because the prince of this age (2Cor4:4) seeks to exercise control over Nigeria. Everywhere is devoid of peace.
A people without God have turned Northern Nigeria into battlefields; places of worship have become attractive for mass murder. Schools are razed and the pupils who constitute the leaders of tomorrow are not spared in these mindless killings and abduction. Security operatives, whose duty it is to protect the citizens, are hunted and massacred.
Despite repeated calls, genuine foreign investors are staying away in droves. Kidnapping has become a hobby for our youths. People elected — oops, we hired — to run the affairs of the country don’t see eye-to-eye. They have no regard for God, the electorates, or iota of respect for the president or the office of the president. But the Scriptures declare, Let every individual be obedient to those who rule over him; for no one is a ruler except by God’s permission, and our present rulers have had their rank and power assigned to them by Him (Roman 13:1).
However, the president’s aides, loyalists, motivated largely by the perks of the office, are determined to run anyone who doesn’t line up behind his 2015 ambition out of town.
They have failed to understand that … By me kings reign and rulers issue decrees that are just (Proverbs8:15). How soon they have forgotten that a man cannot receive anything of his own will unless it is given to him from Heaven (John3:27).
What they now enjoy was originally created for someone else. In the original copy of President Yar’adua’s acceptance speech of his nomination as the PDP presidential aspirant, Goodluck Jonathan was not his running mate. The typed text Yar’adua read to the public shows that someone else’s name was cancelled and the name Goodluck Ebele Jonathan was input with a pen at the last minute. Thus, affirming that it is… Not by might nor by power, but by My Spirit,’ says the LORD of hosts (Zechariah 4:6).
However, the governors are not immune to this confusion. Our governors are divided; many who were once friends are now foes. Strife has become the order of the day amongst them. Consequently …there is disorder and every evil practice (James 3:16).
Talkative governor, Godswill Akpbabio, is Generalissimo of the faction that Jonah Jang superintends, while embattled Governor Rotmi Amaechi leads a faction comprising mainly erudite governors are considered “Strange Bedfellows”.
Now, each faction seeks supremacy; and in their desperate bid to assert their hegemony, many are using their private jets purchased with tax payer’s money to import arm and ammunition into the country.
For what purpose? To arm miscreants, who in turn use these weapons to maim, kill, Kidnap, and rob the electorate. This is how Boko Haram started. They were created to help rig election.
Now the governors, former and serving, have lost control of the monster they helped to create. Boko Haram leaders taunt the government and people of Nigeria. “We are in your city. We have your girls and will sell them,” Shekau affirmed last week.
Most of the members of the sect who were arrested were apprehended within private homes or official residences of elected officials. The military is about misinformation and talks without actions. Zuba bombing occurred a walking distance from a military checkpoint.
I am not accusing the military of collusion. However, we understand that no criminal enterprise can thrive anywhere, without active connivance of the people in the environment where they operate. So it is time to fish out, name and shame unpatriotic Nigerians backing the Islamic sect.
Governor Amaechi, whom the PDP sees as an “enemy within”, largely due to his past utterances and alleged romance with the opposition, has since moved to APC. Yet the war is far from over.
Ministers, some who threw their friends and significant other under the bus in their quest for securing their current position, are determined to do anything, including fuelling the confusion, in order to stay relevant.
The opposition, particularly Bola Tinubu, has not helped matters. It seems he has forgotten so soon how he was exiled and reduced to a petty drug dealer in the US during the military junta. Tinubu does to others what he will not like them to do him — encouraging in other parties what he will not put up within ACN. He overlooks the fact that life is governed by “cause and effect”. Sir, make no mistake about this: You can never make a fool out of God. Whatever you sow is what you’ll reap (Galatians 6:7).
Also, General Buhari and his band of brothers in CPC can’t wait to turn all and sundry who don’t share their views to “endangered species”. Their mantra has become: how long will they continue to defraud us and expect us to understand? Note that …No one can receive anything unless it has been given to him from heaven (John 3:27) and that…No government would exist if it hadn’t been established by God (Romans 13:1).
A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure, permanently, half-peace and half-confusion. I do not expect Nigeria to break — I do not expect the house to fall — but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing or all the other. Either the opponents of peace will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction; or its proponents will push it forward, till it shall reign in all the 36 states — North as well as South.
I side with the later, and therefore call on all who profess the name of our Lord Jesus Christ to strive in prayers for peace in Nigeria, and …for all who are in authority so that we can live peaceful and quiet lives marked by godliness and dignity (1 Timothy 2:2).
A country without peace cannot witness any meaningful development and our God is the originator of peace. So let’s pray that peace be restored to Nigeria, and that the 230 plus girls abducted from Chibok be returned and reunited with their families. Most of all, pray that drones of the US and the rest of the western world who have offered to help Nigeria stem the menace of Boko Haram, will find and shatter Abubakar Shekau, and his cohort, if they fail to cease and desist from their actions… for our God is a consuming fire (Hebrews 12:29).
Hallelujah!!!
By Emmanuel Emeke Asiwe (Ps)