By Chinedu Nsofor
On Tuesday, popular Nigerian prophet, Primate Elijah Ayodele, shared a statement regarding the threat issued by President Donald Trump to invade Nigeria with military troops over reports of Christian genocide in the country.
Primate Ayodele, who vehemently opposed the idea, urged President Bola Ahmed Tinubu not to beg the US President because, according to him, Trump wants to negotiate with Nigeria for natural resources. He noted that the US president is only looking for ways to make money for his country and nothing more.
He had earlier warned Tinubu that the US is looking for ways to destabilise his government and that instead of going to beg him or negotiate, it’s better to seek God’s face and tackle insecurity adequately.
However, it appears this wise counsel didn’t sit well with a terrorist organisation, the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB, which expressed dissatisfaction in the statement Primate Ayodele made. This terrorist organisation, which has always supported anything that can divide the nation, stated that Primate Ayodele has always supported the APC government and that he ignored the Christians who are being killed daily. The terrorist organisation also tackled the prophet for not supporting Peter Obi during the last election.
When I read the statement which was signed by the National Director of Information, Comrade Edeson Samuel, it simply felt somewhat seeing MASSOB and Primate Ayodele in the same sentence because by every standard, MASSOB, a terrorist organisation, is just too little compared to what Primate Ayodele represents in Nigeria.
I just want to ask, what has MASSOB actually done even for the Igbo people in the nation other than hurt their businesses and waste their lives? For years, in some Southeast states, businesses have been crippled every Monday. Anyone who comes out is either shot dead or injured by MASSOB and its likes, even Peter Obi, this terrorist group is talking about now, did they support him in 2023? MASSOB has not done any good thing for the Igbos; the terrorist group is actually a curse to the Igbo people, so I wonder what is annoying this group?
For Primate Ayodele, the Igbos who have benefited from him are countless. The Igbo pastors he has are uncountable. The Igbo members of his church are countless. He even has a special service dedicated to the Igbos in his church, so I wonder what MASSOB is talking about here.
Just last week Sunday at his church, at least in pictures I saw on the internet, I saw a lot of members dressed in Igbo attire, which signifies that there are even some Sundays dedicated fully to the Igbo community. Recently, Primate Ayodele gave one of his members the sum of N1 million cash during a live service. The member, who is an Igbo man, couldn’t hold his tears while revealing that he had never seen such a huge amount of money all his life. These are records that can be found online, so I wonder where MASSOB got the audacity to speak about Primate Ayodele from.
Sincerely, the whole of MASSOB can’t lace the shoes of Primate Ayodele, and I know for sure that Igbo people will forever be grateful to Primate Ayodele, but for MASSOB, they will always rain curses on the terrorist group for robbing the good Igbo people of prosperity.
