How times fly and man easily forgets. Recall, how the federal government of Nigeria raised an alarm, using the companies and allied matters act (CAMA) to feel and gauge the pulse of the Nigerian churches especially the founders and the general overseers. This happened sometime last year in 2020 and we all saw the reactions of the church and the members both from the informed and uninformed perspectives against the Act and what it stood for. The gullible members and followers were miss-informed and made to believe that the Act was a clandestine move, that the government of President Muhammadu Buhari who is a Muslim to clamp down on churches.
Whereas, it was a deliberate move by the government to put a check on the excesses of the Pentecostal Ministers especially those of them who had been too vocal and had almost turned themselves into another opposition party, so to speak. Ever since that happened, one can notice a shift in the stance of those Ministers of God such as Bishop David Oyedepo of the Living faith church [aka winners chapel] and the like from the extreme if not to zero to at least moderate. Pastor Tunde Bakare who also is a founder and general overseer of one of the Pentecostal churches at that time was of the opinion that why should ministers of God like him be so worried by speaking fire and brimstone if they had no skeleton in their cupboard. This was food for thought then but no one considered it.
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This argument is arrant nonsense, men of God also have a right to their own political opinion, supporting a dictatorial clamp down on free speech just shows the kind of messed up person this author is. You think because you hate pentecostal pastors then it's ok to deprive them of their constitution given rights to either speak in support of or oppose the government? Your education is a waste because you are no different from an uneducated almajiri on the streets.

Nairaland is now indeed a dunghill !

Very shameful that every stupid thought and uncultured opinion is welcome here.

One of the many examples is this very OP.

U call the church oppressor? U are an i.diot!! Goodbye

Both of them work hand in hand. Same colonial template..the state oppress the the church pacify to avoid unrest.. both belong to same gang of thugs...Theses days in Nigeria the church is going extra mile to form a state status within a state and hence the clash....!!

Said so much without saying anything.