‘Idris Abdulkareem’s protest against Adeboye, misguided and offensive’

The Initiative to Save Democracy (ISD) has described the protest held by a group led by Idris Abdulkareem, a musician, against Enoch Adeboye, general overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, as misguided.

In a statement issued by Akinloye James, its president, the group, said some politicians behind it.

The group described the protests as a waste of time, saying the protesters had “little or no understanding of the issues they were raising.

“Over time Nigerians have been bamboozled by an idiotic delusion that the country is being shepherded into Islamization,” James said.

“Anyone who cries out that there is an Islamisation agenda has zero understanding of Nigeria’s laws. And cannot comprehend what it means to Islamise a country where the population is divided equally between Christians and Muslims.

“There can be no Islamisation of Nigeria. It is impossible. The leadership of the country is already shared between a Muslim President and a Christian Vice President. The Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Mr Boss Mustapha, who I know personally is a Christian and the leader of the men’s fellowship in his Church in Wuye, Abuja.

“We have a legislature that is abundantly filled and divided with members of both faith, so how is it possible that a law for Nigeria’s Islamization would pass through? In fact who would sponsor it?”

The group also stated that the claim that the church had been silent on the issue of the abduction of Leah Sharibu was absolute falsehood.

“Asides the fact that the Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo has been a leading voice for the release of Leah Sharibu, he is in full knowledge of the facts that would lead to her release and is making the needed interventions for its hasty but diligent execution as the number two man in government,” he said.

“In unison, the Church is also praying. Daddy Adeboye is praying. Daddy Oyedepo is praying. Daddy Adeferasin is praying. Among many others. Both in the face of the public on their pulpits, and also in their closets. They don’t have to tell you.

“But we don’t expect a man who has no known morality, and who doesn’t understand Christianity to know these facts. A man who has been sponsored by demonic elements would not know these things.

“Idris and his group of dense protesters would not also know that over 12,000 women and children have been released from captivity from Boko Haram – both Christians and Muslims. He also seems to be unaware that the Ruga policy has been suspended.”