Far-famed Nigerian Pastor and the General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), Enoch Adeboye, on Saturday said Nigeria is already fighting some serious wars, adding that the country does not need more wars.
“We are still fighting wars against hunger, we are fighting some serious wars, and sure we don’t want more wars. We want to win the ones we are fighting, and we don’t want fresh ones; whether within or without our borders,” the revered cleric said during the church’s 2023 Convention with the theme, ‘Beyond Expectations’.
His comments followed the controversy over the proposed deployment of soldiers to the Niger Republic by the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) under the chairmanship of Nigeria’s President Bola Tinubu.
The 81-year-old Adeboye said he witnessed the Nigerian Civil War between the Nigerian and Biafran sides from July 1967 to January 1970, stressing that having experienced the war; he will choose peace over war any day, anytime.
Adeboye continued; “Nigeria still needs a lot of prayers. I’m a small boy, but I was at the battlefront during the civil war; not as a soldier but I lived near the battlefront and what I saw, if anybody asked me to choose between war and peace, I will choose peace.”
He explained that Nigeria is already fighting many wars against kidnappers, terrorists, killer herdsmen, among others, noting that the country does not need more wars but to win the ones, it is battling currently.
“And we are already fighting many wars in Nigeria, we are fighting wars against kidnappers, we are fighting wars against terrorists. There are still places in Nigeria today that when people go to bed, they are not sure if they would not be killed before tomorrow morning.
“We are still fighting wars against some people who feel that if you are a farmer, and you plant, then what you have planted is food for their cows and if their cows come to eat your harvest, and you complain, they kill you,” he said.
