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General Superintendent of the Deeper Life Bible Church and respected pastor William Kumuyi has debunked the predictions that Nigeria would split up in 2015.
He assured Nigerians that no matter the political tension, insecurity and travails the country was undergoing, the nation would not be divided.
He said this at a media briefing on Tuesday for the opening of the DLBC three-day cusade at Eiyenkorin in Ilorin, Kwara state.
He also asked Nigerians to moderate their statements and desist from making statements that could heat up the polity.
Kumuyi said, “Sometimes people misunderstood the power of prophecy and there are people who will make negative pronouncements. Pronouncements are not necessarily prophecies. Every utterance on Nigeria breaking up is a pronouncement made from observations and not prophecies.
“I believe those who made those pronouncements based on some things they see or feel should say ‘they feel Nigeria may break up’ and not that God said that. Because if God could hear the voice of only Moses and spared Israel and they still exist over 3,000 years after, then God loves Nigeria and would not allow it to break up.
“God has a purpose for Nigeria. When people talk of division, the truth is that once you start the process, it never ends. Once you say, ‘people in the North, go your way and those in the South, go your way,’ there are other people who will also rise up to say they too want to go their own way even within you. You know what happened in the 1960s; several sides will begin to be asked to go away but I know that God has a purpose for bringing Nigeria together and we shall remain one.”
He asked the electorate to elect leaders not based on sentimental values like religion or ethnicity but rather on competence and perceived ability to deliver on the promises of democracy.
He assured Nigerians that no matter the political tension, insecurity and travails the country was undergoing, the nation would not be divided.
He said this at a media briefing on Tuesday for the opening of the DLBC three-day cusade at Eiyenkorin in Ilorin, Kwara state.
He also asked Nigerians to moderate their statements and desist from making statements that could heat up the polity.
Kumuyi said, “Sometimes people misunderstood the power of prophecy and there are people who will make negative pronouncements. Pronouncements are not necessarily prophecies. Every utterance on Nigeria breaking up is a pronouncement made from observations and not prophecies.
“I believe those who made those pronouncements based on some things they see or feel should say ‘they feel Nigeria may break up’ and not that God said that. Because if God could hear the voice of only Moses and spared Israel and they still exist over 3,000 years after, then God loves Nigeria and would not allow it to break up.
“God has a purpose for Nigeria. When people talk of division, the truth is that once you start the process, it never ends. Once you say, ‘people in the North, go your way and those in the South, go your way,’ there are other people who will also rise up to say they too want to go their own way even within you. You know what happened in the 1960s; several sides will begin to be asked to go away but I know that God has a purpose for bringing Nigeria together and we shall remain one.”
He asked the electorate to elect leaders not based on sentimental values like religion or ethnicity but rather on competence and perceived ability to deliver on the promises of democracy.