During comments Sunday in which he
mentioned attacks on churches in Nigeria,
Syria’s war and the situation in the Central
African Republic, where rebels have pushed
their way across the impoverished country,
Jonathan spoke of the Biblical end times.
“I was just wondering, could this be a clear
way of telling us that the end times are so
close?” he told the church congregation,
according to a recording of his remarks
heard by AFP.
Some Christians believe in the idea of chaos
in connection with the second coming of
Jesus Christ, commonly referred to as the
“end times”. Such beliefs are based on
passages in the New Testament’s Book of
Revelation.
Jonathan was speaking at an evangelical
Christian church service in the capital. The
church belongs to the EYN denomination,
common among Christians in the violence-
torn northeast, where Boko Haram is based.
Local media quoted the church pastor as
saying 109 EYN members have been killed
and 50 branches burnt.
Violence linked to Boko Haram’s insurgency
in northern and central Nigeria has left some
3,000 people dead since 2009, including
killings by the security forces.
Symbols of Nigerian authority have often
been their targets, but the group has also
specifically targeted Christians, fellow
muslims, including suicide bombings of
churches.
This Christmas season has however been
notably less bloody than in 2011, when
scores were killed in attacks on churches and
other locations.
Jonathan has previously accused Boko
Haram of seeking to destabilise the
government and incite a religious crisis in
Nigeria, Africa’s most populous nation,
roughly divided between a mainly Muslim
north and predominately Christian south.
On Sunday, while speaking of the rebels in
the Central African Republic, Jonathan said:
“They were quite close to taking over the
capital city, just as Boko Haram is taking
over Abuja for me and those working in
government to run and hide somewhere else.”
He vowed however that Boko Haram would
not succeed and that the violence would be
brought under control.
“If the idea of Boko Haram is to stop
Nigerians from worshipping God, they will not
succeed,” he said.
“If the idea of Boko Haram is to stop
government from providing the dividends of
democracy, they will not succeed…. God
willing and with our commitment, the
excesses of Boko Haram and other criminal
organisations will be brought to a reasonable
control.”
Jonathan spokesman Reuben Abati did not
respond to a phone call to further explain the
president’s comments.

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Clueless presido

The Scumbag has ran out of lies. Why are some of our neighbours violence free? Why are police stations and churches in Ghana for example not blown up? Is our time ending sooner than theirs?