Samuel Uche, the primate of the Methodist Church of Nigeria for the second time this year has added his voice to the ongoing controversy over the agitation for an Independent state of Biafra by the Nnamdi Kanu lead IPOB.
The primate earlier in the year asked members of the not to obey the sit at home order by IPOB and MASSOB, the two separatist groups pushing for an Independent state of Biafra on Sunday said that the Biafran agitators were being used by politicians to achieve their own selfish desires.
He spoke at Ibekwe, Ikot Abasi Local Government Area, Akwa Ibom State, during a Thanksgiving Church Service organised by the Managing Director of the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, Nsima Ekere.
The primate said, “All these campaigns that the Igbo must leave a section of the country or that Biafra must be, they are all sponsored by politicians who are looking for political power.”
“Any politician who sponsor people to kill others so that they can enter political office, they will never enjoy that office,” he prayed in a loud voice.
The congregation responded with a loud “Amen!”
The prelate continued: “I pray that Biafra and all those agitations will crumble in 2019”
“I am not PDP, APC or APGA. I am for every Nigerian.
“Nigerians will reject bad leaders in 2019”.
The primate described what is happening in Niger Delta region as a “great deprivation” and called on the federal government to urgently address the problem of the area.
He said, “As a leader of the Methodist, I am saying here that we should allow this area (Niger Delta) to control its resources and pay a certain percentage of money to the centre”.
“Let us practice true federalism,” he said, adding that what is keeping Nigeria one was nothing other than oil.
“All these shouts of one Nigeria, one Nigeria is because of oil.
“If the oil dries up today, it will be to your tents oh Nigeria!”
“If we spend responsibly what we have, everybody could be taken care of and everybody will be happy.”