Conference enjoins Nigerian leaders to rejig economy
Worried by the parlous state of the economy, a cross section of experts has impressed on the Nigerian leadership the need to gird up its loins and turn things around.
According to these experts, over the years, the Nigerian ship of state had been tossed ferociously by the storm of woes, sinking it gradually to the current quicksand, while political and particularly religious leaders who have the solutions had been frolicking and sleeping.
The current dire state of Nigeria amidst God-given abundant human and natural resources that ought to rank it among developed countries had rather left it decrepit with her people and workforce scavenging and wallowing in abject poverty even across the world.
The sordid Nigerian situation was the underlying message delivered by two great American preachers Drs. David Olford and Bartholomew Orr, at the recent three-day Expository Preaching Conference, charging and enjoining Nigeria leaders to “Wake Up.” “How Can We Sleep In A Time Like This?,” at the West Africa Theological Seminary (WATS), Ipaja, Lagos.
In a statement issued on behalf of the conference by Israel Ade’Dunia, the two preachers whose messages supplement each other likened Nigerian leaders to the Biblical Jonah who slept off in the ship while the storm blew the ship at breaking and sinking point when indeed he was the reason and solution for the storm (Jonah 1:1-17; 2; 3:1-6).
The motley participants made up of political leaders; chaplains who are officers in the Nigerian Army, Navy and Air Force; General Overseers of churches; members of the academia from various countries; Nigeria’s business moguls and entrepreneurs and many others who were present at the three-day conference were stunned by the messages of the preachers that painted how abysmal and perilous a nation can be when its leaders are disobedient to the Creator God and how it can flourish and be at peace and harmony when they obey God.
