The General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Pastor Enoch Adeboye, has strongly advised the Federal Government to immediately eliminate terrorists and their sponsors.
This call comes amid the possibility of the United States taking military action in Nigeria.
Adeboye delivered this message on Friday, Nov. 7 during the November Holy Ghost Service, responding to recent threats reportedly issued by US President Donald Trump.
Specifically, he urged President Bola Tinubu to give the newly appointed service chiefs a three-month ultimatum to completely wipe out all terrorists and those financing them.
He said the service chiefs should be prepared to resign if they fail to meet this crucial deadline.
Adeboye said:“This is not the time for apportioning blame. Our President inherited this problem, it started before him.
“Some of you will remember who called the service chiefs together and said, ‘I give you three months, get rid of all these Boko Haram people or resign.’
“It’s not allowed to tell you who gave him that advice. He ran with that advice, but he didn’t follow it through, because he gave the order as the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, and the security operatives moved fast.
“But three months went by, and the work was not done. So I went to see him. It wasn’t unusual. This time, somehow, the press got to know that I visited him. Of course, they were not there when we talked.
“Unfortunately, like I said, he is not alive now. I would have asked you to go and ask him, ‘Sir, why didn’t you follow through? Because when three months passed and the work wasn’t done, why didn’t you proceed with your, are we going to call it threat?’
“I won’t tell you the details, but one thing came out of that meeting, which will lead me to my next advice to our government, in case there’s any of you who can get across to them.
“When giving orders to the service chiefs this time around, we should make it clear to them that they are not only to eliminate the terrorists but also their sponsors, no matter how influential they may be.”
The renowned cleric warned that if the US eventually invades Nigeria, China, Russia, and other world powers would not come to the country’s defence.
Adeboye added:“When I say our leaders should move fast, move diplomatically, and move wisely, we must take note of the fact that if America should attack us, China is not coming to defend us. Russia will not come to defend us.
“All the so-called world leaders will talk, they will condemn what America has done in the strongest terms, that’s all they will do. Britain is not going to come and help us. No other foreign power will come to our aid.
“This is not the time for joking. This is not the time for drama. This is not the time for semantics. This is not the time to begin to argue, is it suicide or kidnapping or whatever name they call it?
“And this is not the time to say, ‘Ah, it’s not Christians alone, Muslims are also involved.’ The point is, people are dying. Innocent people are dying.”
He also urged Tinubu to plead with Trump to give him a window of 100 days to tackle the insurgency in Nigeria.
The cleric said that once Tinubu secures the support of Trump to give him 100 days to halt the attacks, he should, in turn, issue a marching order to the service chiefs and other security agencies to resolve the issues within 90 days.
“Let the government use diplomatic methods to convince President Trump to give us 100 days of grace. All our service chiefs, fortunately, are new, should perform within three months, or resign.”
The warning followed comments by Trump, who declared on his Truth Social platform last Friday that Christianity in Nigeria was facing an “existential threat” from radical Islamist groups.
He added that the United States “cannot stand by while such atrocities are happening,” pledging that his administration would be “ready, willing and able to protect our great Christian population around the world.”
Trump also urged members of Congress to investigate the situation, directing Congressman Riley Moore, House Appropriations Committee Chairman Tom Cole and others to report back to him.
Persecondnews reported that Congressman Riley Moore has sharply criticized China for opposing a potential U.S. military intervention in Nigeria, which he argues is needed to stop a “Christian genocide” ongoing since 2009.
Moore declared that the U.S. “will not be dictated to” by an “authoritarian country” that itself has a poor record of Christian persecution, including imprisoning its own Christian population.
Moore told Fox News: “China has been involved in Africa for a long time, they have been involved in extractive resources and materials and things like that. They have built some infrastructure here and there, trying to smoothen things over.
“They have been running a slave labour camp down in the Democratic Republic of Congo, extracting minerals there.’’
“US is not going to be lectured by an authoritarian country who has thrown Christians into prisons themselves and have also subjugated ethnic minorities in concentration camps.
“We are not going to have our foreign policy dictated to us by a communist country like China, it is not going to happen,’’ Persecondnews quotes Moore as saying in the monitored interview.
On why despite the world index of Christian persecution ranked Nigeria no. 1 and there is no attention drawn to the atrocities called genocide, Moore said: “it is a genocide. Our brothers and sisters in Christ are being murdered and murdered for their profession of faith in our Lord and Saviour Jesus.
“The main stream media has turned the other way, pretending that it is not happening. Clearly, the Biden administration did not take it seriously.
“There is skepticism in the media, they are questioning all that is happening and all that. The number, the least number of killings is 50,000 and there are reports that hundreds of thousands of Christians have been murdered since 2009.’’
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