By KEHINDE Emmanuel, Ilorin
The Head Pastor,The City of Light Church, Ilorin, Pastor Sunday Adebayo Babalola, has said that God will salvage Nigeria from its current challenges.
Pastor Sunday Adebayo Babalola.
In his Easter message to christians to mark Easter celebration,the cleric said Nigeria wouls also overcome insecurity, hunger, poverty, and mass unemployment.
He added that the country would overcome an unfriendly business environment, tribalism, nepotism, inflation, corruption, mismanagement, and other developmental challenges.
According to him, good, responsive, responsible, humane, and accountable leaders would emerge, who God, would use to salvage the country.
Pastor Babalola said that God would intervene in the affairs of the nation and cause the election of good leaders who would deliver dividends of democracy and good governance to Nigerians.
The religious leader advised Nigerians not to be despondent because of the current hardship, insecurity, inflation, and other challenges in the country, adding that God woukd address the current challenges of the nation.
He reiterated that God would intervene and make Nigeria become a cynosure in the comity of nations.
Babalola, who is a chieftain of the Social Democratic Party(SDP), also urged Nigerian leaders to work for the unity and progress of the country and for Nigerians to co-exist harmoniously and eschew divisive tendencies.
He admonished them to love one another and make sacrifices, which he noted are some of the lessons of Easter.
The pastor also urged people, especially Christians all over the world, in Nigeria and particularly, in Kwara State, to bask in the victory of Jesus Christ over death.
According to him,Easter is a unique Christian period that marks the crucifixion, death, and resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ, adding that it also signified the victory of God through Jesus Christ over the devil, sickness, sin, and other afflictions of the devil.
The pastor cum politician advised indigenes and residents of Kwara State not to despair but have hope for a bright tomorrow.
According to him, God will bless the state with leaders that will care for the interest of the masses and deliver good governance.
He identified some of the challenges facing the people of the state to include poverty, hunger, an unfriendly business environment, and insecurity but stated that things will change for the better.
Babalola said: “Easter is a special period in Christiandom.
‘The period is used to mark the crucifixion, death, and the glorious resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ. Easter marks God’s defeat of the forces of evil and the devil which led to the salvation of mankind from sin, sickness, and all the pangs of the devil.”
Edited by Dada Ahmed.
