SAVING CHRISTIANITY IN NIGERIA: WHERE IS THE JESUS CHRIST AND MARTIN LUTHER KING JR., IN YOU? 

Martin Lurther Kink Jr. was a Christian and a Baptist Minister. He couldn't stomach the state-sponsored inequality that cast his people unworthy of the protection of the state and denial of basic human rights. And he took his demands for racial tolerance and equal rights and justice to the streets of America and to the National Mall in Washington DC. Besides the "Sermon on the Mount" by Our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, the "I Have A Dream" speech by Martin Lurther King Jr. remains the most memorable speech by any leader in the history of the human race. Just the way Jesus Christ went to the Temple to confront the merchants who turned his Father's House of Worship into one of bargain and exchange, for money changers, and hawkers of influence, Martin Lurther King Jr. went on a match from Selma-to-Montgomery. All for his people to be free. You are not more special than these two.

Jesus Christ didn't wait for or look up to their Roman Colonia Masters to prevail on the Pharisees and Sadducees or for Pontius Pilate to remind him that he is the King. And Jesus Christ did not ask for the protection of the followers of His teaching (who will later be called Christians for the first time in Antioch). He took the fight to the enemies. And even at the point of death, he stood his ground. And he was peaceful. Martin Luther King  Jr. took the fight to the National Mall and to the enemy's territories. And he was peaceful. Where is your peaceful protest?

Today, you would rather dwell on what men and women do in the privacy of their own home than to talk about poverty, inequality, disease, bad roads, the poverty of ideas ravaging our leadership structure, nepotism, the killing of peaceful and unarmed protesters at Lekki Toll Gate, the humongous salaries and wages of the members of the National Assembly, the massive disconnect between Abuja and Nigerian reality, as well as the obscene emptiness of Aso Rock. And you are waiting for President Donald Trump to fight your fight. 

Black Life Matters was a global crusade. How many of you in your church in Nigeria or your idolized and hero-worshiped evangelists in the US spare a second to empathize with the movement or condemn the heartless killing of Trayvon Martin or George Floyd? Too pedestrian to worth your while.

They told you that he was going to send American Military Forces to protect Nigerian Christians in Nigeria. Really! The last time that I checked, Nigerian is a sovereign nation. Two, American President does not have the power to suo mo tu send Military Forces to another country. Even if he does, Nigeria is not like the Vatican where the population of the faithful is in a bounded area. Which makes the expectation logistically untenable and the lie, too juvenile.

There is a popular video by Rev. Fr. Oluoma Chinenye John that made the rounds on Facebook and WhatsApp a few months ago, calling on Nigerian men and women of God as well as Muslims to match to Eagle Square at Abuja. How many of you crying captivity since the US Presidential election share the video on your Wall? I did three times. 

Fight your own fight, gentlemen. Stop waiting for heroes in the wrong places. Emancipate yourself from the mental hijack of Chief Femi-Fani Kayode and the sophistry of my fellow Esan brother, Pastor Chris Oyakhilomen. Please, take the bull by the horn - you know who your enemies are. CALL THEM BY NAMES. Stop speaking in tongues about them in your places of worship. 

Do you know what would happen if 20% of you match to Eagle Square at Abuja and take the STOP THE KILLING OF CHRISTIANS CAMPAIGN directly to President Buhari and the cattle merchants and land grabbers who are sponsoring and arming the killers? President Donald Trump can't do that for you. He didn't promise that, either. The UN can only condemn it, but they can't fight the fight for you. You have the manpower, you have the resources, and you have the means. Fight your battle. 

Please, take a page from the works of our Lord Jesus Christ and Martin Luther King Jr., their audacity, selflessness, and the no-hold-barred chastisement of the political system that peprpetuates un-Godliness, inequality, and man inhumanity to man. And free your mind of the escapism of some of our evangelicals that is holding you hostage. You are clothing somebody in a borrowed robe that he didn't even bargain for. 

And if I may ask, are you more Christian than your folks in the States? And does it matter to you that not even 1% of them espouse your views about the US Presidential election and the candidates? They sold you a dummy and you fell for it under the spell of prophesying. Now that your prophecy did come true, you are blaming the gods. Come on brethren, the gods are not to blame. Blame it on your naivete, ignorance of the facts on the ground that you are not familiar with, and the false narrative you concocted to hoodwink your gullible followers.