The Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN) has vowed to resist any attempt to stop Christians from preaching in commercial buses, insisting that believers would continue evangelising even if such a law were enforced.
Speaking on Wednesday’s edition of Channels Television’s The Morning Brief, PFN President, Bishop Wale Oke, said Christians would “rather obey God than man,” arguing that any restriction on public preaching would violate their constitutional right to propagate their faith.
“We will preach in buses if they want to imprison us; let them come and arrest us. We are coming. We will preach in buses; they cannot stop us,” the Bishop of Sword of the Spirit Ministries International said.
Defending remarks he made in a viral video while addressing his congregation, Oke reiterated his determination to resist any attempt to prohibit public evangelism.
“Make all the stadiums in Nigeria become a prison if you want to enforce that law. We are coming. We will preach in buses; we will preach everywhere,” he said in the video.
The cleric described the proposal as an attack on Christians rather than a genuine effort to improve public safety.
According to him, the proposed restriction reflects what he sees as a broader pattern of policies targeting Christians.
He stressed that the country belongs to people of different religious beliefs and must remain so.