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The General Overseer, Power and Wisdom of God Church, Badagry, Lagos, Pastor Idowu Ayadi, has said the current challenges facing the country is due to collective failures from both past and present leaders in the country, including Nigerians who have come to believe that the only way to succeed in the country, is to cheat.
The cleric then attributed the troubles facing the country, to what he called the “spirit of cheating”.
This spirit of cheating, according to Ayadi, is responsible for the majority of the challenges facing the country, but called on Nigerians to play a noble part in complementing the positive efforts of the Federal Government to address these issues.
Ayadi who tagged his message: “The Spirit Troubling The Nigerian Nation”, made the call at a news briefing on Saturday as part of the activities marking the celebration of Christmas in Badagry.
The cleric said he consecrated himself to pray for Nigeria, and after many days of prayers, it was revealed to him that the source of the nation’s problems was the “Spirit of Cheating”.
According to him, to destroy the spirit of cheating, everyone has to buy into speaking the truth and never sell it.
He said that society should stop worshipping money, while parents should not teach their children how to cheat.
“All clergymen should emphatically teach their followers that life does not consist in the abundance of the things they have, and that act of covetousness is evil.
“On the side of government, there must be check and balance mechanism that will prevent the commission of fraud.
“The three arms of government, the Executive, Legislature and Judiciary, must work together, effectively and efficiently.
“If all these are done, the spirit of cheating will die a natural death, and the lost glory of our country shall be restored.
“Then, we will take our rightful position among the comity of great nations,” he said.
Ayadi said many that were born with the truth had sold the truth, while many who did not have the truth, had refused to buy it.
He said the spirit of cheating in Nigerians had turned all infrastructure that would have promoted prosperity into a sorry state.
The cleric said that all efforts being made by the government to improve our roads and power supply had not yielded the desired results.
“This is because the spirit of cheating is in the people who are frustrating those government’s efforts.
“Infrastructure decay is the major contributor to our economy penury.
“There will be no economic prosperity in any nation where there is inefficient infrastructure to support the production of goods and services,” he said.
Ayadi said that the spirit of cheating made the perpetrators of insecurity to believe that whatever they could not get legally, would be obtained through the cruel and dubious means.
He said: “We should not pass the total blame of insecurity in our country on the current administration and military alone.
“It is the effect of the long term accumulated failures of our past leaders, who the spirit of cheating had deceived to believe that as long as they and their families are comfortable, what happens to others is not their concerns.”