Thread by @InibeheEffiong

Your pastor cannot go out without heavily armed policemen, some even move around with military escorts and SSS operatives. You dare not get close to them without strict security search and compliance with their protocol team.

But they sell stickers with their faces to you and tell you to put them on your cars and doors as a solution to the insecurity that is ravaging the country. The stickers does not work for them, but you believe that it will work for you.

God is not mocked.

God is not an author of confusion.

Jesus Christ did not shield Himself from the people. When His disciples tried to prevent the poor from having access to Him, Jesus Christ rebuked them.

But we have Christian leaders today, especially the pentecostal pastors, living in isolation from the people. It is very difficult, even for members of their mega Churches, to have access to them. They operate like invincible men. They place money over the gospel of salvation.

They dine and wine with the same rotten politicians that are destroying this country. I insist that prayers; or to put it in a more subtle language, prayers alone, will never change Nigeria.

Religious leaders can say otherwise because they are not feeling what the common people are feeling.

The irony is that the mega pastors and imams depend on the same nations where prayers are not relied upon as a panacea for development for their children's education,

their health needs and leisure. Most of these mega pastors in Nigeria have investments abroad.

But they are busy calling for prayers for Nigeria as if United Kingdom, China, Asia and Europe where they constantly run to for solutions to their problems are depending on prayers for their civilization and progress.

My position is that the Church in this country has to redefine its purpose and role in national development. If majority of religious leaders decide today that enough is enough, this country will see significant changes.

We have been praying for decades and things have not changed.

Politicians are using religion to keep the citizens down. They are always referencing God and invoking God's name for their vanities. It is time we begin to march our prayers with actions or stop praying all together.

For me, I had since stopped praying for Nigeria and Nigerian leaders. I will rather use my tools as a lawyer and my civic weapons (protest, criticisms and the likes) to fight for a better Nigeria than pray.

Those who believe that prayers will stop Buhari and other failed leaders from destroying Nigeria further should continue praying.

But while at it, they should know that politicians are laughing at them.

I repeat, praying for Nigeria and the rulers of Nigeria is not my portion.