Prophecy Going! Going! Atiku or Buhari?

Many people are confused and frustrated in this present age, especially in Nigeria because they collect peanuts to vote for their candidate and after voting, there are multiple taxes to pay, fraudulent bank charges that awaits them, death trap roads, countless youths without employment, etc., all because of bad, selfish and wicked leaders we vote in to govern us.

Too Many Churches, yet……

Over the years, the masses have seen The Church as a place of refuge, a place of worship where they will go to worship God, pour out their frustrations and receive peace of mind and joy in return. There, churches started booming in Nigeria, to the point that church building has been erected at every nook and cranny. With all these churches, instead of lives being transformed, instead of wickedness, selfishness, hate, idolatry, adultery, bitterness, jealousy, armed robbery, kidnapping, prostitution, child trafficking, etc. to decrease, they have continued to increase, and are even becoming societal norms. Have we even thought of why this is so? Let’s find out together.

Prophecy for Sale!

Most men of God have twisted the word of God and are still twisting it to suit their selfish desires. Some mix up truth with falsehood to avert suspicions while others have deviated completely after gradually brainwashing their members until they can no longer differentiate between truth and falsehood. In my bible, prophecies from men of God brings relief, hope, emotional and psychological healing, and peace; even when the prophecy hurts, but today, prophecies from many  ‘men of God’ causes enmity, chaos, self pity, bondage and frustration.   Instead of earning the respect and admiration of the congregation by total devotion to God and His ways, most men of God have resorted to emotionally blackmailing the congregation, threatening them spiritually and bullying them psychologically to extort from them. Prayers and Prophecy are now for sale; members have to pay to get them.

Rev. Fr, Mbaka’s 2018 Harvest and Bazar

Rev Fr. Mbaka’s political statement during his harvest and bazaar is a good example. He said: “The way he is going, if he (Atiku) continues like this, he has already failed because 31^st night is still far for prophecy. Oburo ukwua ka nama ga eji eje Umuahia – meaning this is not the kind of moves that will take a cow to Umuahia”. The reason for the statement being that Atiku has not given anything, and Peter Obi, who was present during the harvest made what he called political promise, because he did not pronounce what he will give.  This whole drama states one fact – Prophecy to pronounce the next Nigerian President is for sale and will go to the highest bidder before January 31^st. God have mercy! Men of God should please count Holy Spirit out of this fortune telling madness they call prophesy.

Matters Arising

Nigeria is in a very bad shape and seriously needs a good leader. Nigerian Church ought to be the conscience of the people of this nation – a place where people go to hear the hard truth that will set them free from their wicked ways and not the other way round. Men of God who are close to Nigerian leaders should tell them that Nigerians deserve to have taps that flows with neat water in their homes to prevent water borne diseases, good roads to reduce accident, industries to reduce unemployment and crime, etc., and also talk them into giving Nigerians what they deserve.  Extorting money from politicians and leaders, especially during election season for church projects will not in any way help solve the problems of Nigerians. It is rather, another way of telling politicians to ‘settle us (with peanuts) then you can go ahead to continue stealing public funds as usual -  If the church continues like this, who will bail the cat?

The Big Picture

Church doesn’t need to shamefully beg for money, they only need to work on the welfare of their members by telling politicians and leaders what they should do for the masses who are the members of the churches, and by teaching and helping their members to be financially established. So many people are hungry because of the state of the nation, and so many of them pretend to be living fine when they are not. By the time people have good jobs and salary to live by, the time they will pay water and electricity bills, etc.; and enjoy those without having to pay extra for drinking water and generator, etc, the time when their needs will match their income, When they will earn higher than they need to spend, then, their pastor doesn't have to emotionally blackmail them to give for church projects; they will give willingly - Only good governance can bring those to pass and the church has a big role to play.

Written by Olive Chinyere Amajuoyi

You may also wish to read “It seems God has gone on Vacation” and “Richest Pastors in an Impoverished Nation”. Please visit the links below.

http://idealolive.blogspot.com/2017/11/it-seems-god-has-gone-on-vacation-does.html

http://idealolive.blogspot.com/2018/01/richest-pastors-in-impoverished-nation.html

PDP, APC IN A CORRUPTION CONTEST

Peoples Democratic Party while reacting to a claim by President Muhammadu Buhari that PDP squandered the sum of $500bn oil proceeds within 16 years has challenged President Buhari to name a corrupt politician in the PDP and in turn, they will give him a list of corrupt politicians in the All Progressives Congress. The party made this known in a statement by PDP national publicity secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, describing the president's claim as baseless, unfounded, and unsubstantiated.

According to PDP, the entire country is aware that the Presidency is on a feverish mode over their bound-to-fail 2019 re-election bid for which they have resorted to making spurious claims against the PDP even when it is clear to Nigerians that the PDP has since re-branded while preponderance of those who mismanaged the nation’s resources have now found a safe haven in the Buhari-led All Progressives Congress (APC).

Ideal Olive gathered from a local source that the party has challenged President Buhari to name one corrupt person in the re-positioned and re-branded PDP and it will hand him a list of an army of corrupt persons who are hiding in his APC including those who funded his 2015 presidential campaigns with stolen money in addition to his many cronies who are now frittering away billions of Naira under his watch.

While pardoning President Buhari over his unverified claims, saying that he did not source his figures, PDP asked if the president and his handlers are not aware of the humongous corruption going on under the Buhari presidency. What have they to say to the recent Transparency International (TI) report which shows that corruption has worsened under the Buhari administration? What have they to say about the official memo detailing shady oil deals to the tune of N9 trillion ($25 billion) at the NNPC which is directly under the coverage of the President as minister of Petroleum resources?

 "The presidency is yet to address its complicity in the heavy sleazes in the National Health Insurance Scheme where billions of Naira have allegedly been siphoned by their agents, in spite of the Treasury Single Account (TSA); the alleged diversion of N1.1 trillion worth of crude oil and the frittering of billions of naira meant for rehabilitation of Internally Displaced Persons in the northeast, all to service APC interests?”Has Mr President forgotten that when he assumed office in 2015, the value of our Naira was N185 to 1USD? Nigerians are aware that the Naira went as low as N510 to 1USD and in case Mr. President is not aware, Nigerians are also ridiculing his much touted strengthening of the Naira.

On the other hand, ideal olive gathered from a local source that the All Progressives Congress has described corruption as the oxygen on which the opposition Peoples Democratic Party survives.

The blame game politics and the politics of hate and destructive criticisms have left many Nigerians confused about the way out for Nigeria, which in no doubt is caught up in an oppressive struggle; the helpless victim in the tale of two poisonous cities, PDP and APC. It is left for Nigerians to decide their fate come 2019 through their voter’s card.

Written by Olive Chinyere Amajuoyi

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BUHARI HAS CORRUPTION ON HIS NOSE

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has again criticized President Muhammadu Buhari’s government, saying that Buhari's anti-corruption crusade has been polluted by people in his inner circle. According to The Nation, the former President in this recent attack stated that Buhari has corruption on his nose.

From what Idealolive.blogspot.com gathered from an interview Obasanjo had with German International broadcasting outlet, Deutsche Welle, Obasanjo said that the President’s anti-corruption fight has been polluted by people in his inner circles. He said that the president could do better on how he goes about the war on corruption, adding that if he was the president, he would make sure people in charge of anti-corruption institutions are people of integrity. There is no point in fighting corruption beyond you and yet, have corruption on your nose, he stated.

Recall that Obasanjo had written in late on January saying among others that President Buhari is sacrificing national interest on the altar of nepotic interest, and had advised the President to resign and not to seek re-election in 2019, as he is already being pressured to do by some Nigerians.

Also recall that while delivering his New Year message this year, Re. Fr. Ejike Mbaka had said that Unless President Buhari quickly and strategically positions the right people and changes the former ones inaugurated by him, the wind of change that he himself inaugurated will blow him away shamefully.

It is clear that our dear president has abused the privilege given to him by Nigerians and is no longer wanted. Everything is turning against him and it is obvious that the positive change he brought had little impact on Nigerians as compared with calamities that Nigerians have experienced since he assumed office in 2015.

Idealolive.blogspot.com is also appealing to the president to start planning for a better replacement as he is now in captive of the corruption he came to fight. Nigerians need to move forward.

Written by Olive Chinyere Amajuoyi

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JONATHAN VS BUHARI – THE GAME OF COMPARISON

Many Nigerians have been in tears since the beginning of this year. Many Nigerian families are in mourning, and mass burials are ongoing. On the other hand, The Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Mr. Femi Adesina is busy digging deep to defend the president’s inability to live up to his responsibility.

In a video he posted on his Facebook page, the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Mr. Femi Adesina insisted that the recent spate of killings by herdsmen in parts of the country had nothing to do with Buhari being Fulani, saying that over 756 people were killed by herdsmen in two years under former President Goodluck Jonathan, therefore, the killing didn’t start under Buhari.

Making statistical comparisons of people killed between Jonathan’s administration and that of Buhari shows that Aso Rock is indeed filled up with bunch of illiterates. How can he even make such comparisons at this time?

President Buhari is not a child and before he came back into power he already knows the height of insecurity in the country. He has been in power before; that means he has got enough experience that should teach him to be proactive. He came back to power with promises that he will stop the killings. As an experienced politician and an elderly Nigerian, his promises only conveyed the message that he has already pre-planned and mapped out strategies on how to protect Nigerians before contesting for presidency. That is what Nigerians expect. They expected him to take over power again adopting proactive measures and not the other way round. Nigerians don’t expect the flimsy reasons coming from the presidency. They are rather disappointed because President Buhari has failed to perform all the magic he promised to perform, which he accused Jonathan countless times of not performing. He should know better; he ought to have come back to power with solutions and not flimsy reasons. Is he no longer the strong man he claimed to be that Jonathan is not?

He should act like the president and give workable commands that will stop the killings of Nigerians, even if it is just to reduce it to the barest minimum. We will not all die before he comes up with a solution that he ought to have entered Aso Rock with in the first place. His Special Adviser on Media and Publicity should stop digging for facts to defend the president’s irresponsibility because it makes him look more stupid than Nigerians think of him.

Written by Olive Chinyere Amajuoyi

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