In response to series of demands for the training of true evangelists across the country, the Diocese of Calabar Anglican Communion has concluded arrangements to establish an evangelical school next year in the ancient city of Cross River State.
Briefing newsmen on the 1st session of 9th Synod with the theme: ‘He Has Made Everything Beautiful,’ at Ogoja, His Lordship, Rt. Rev. Tunde Adeleye, bishop of the diocese explained that the purpose arose from the dearth of ministers of God with the jurisdiction while “we shall be willing to open the school to other denominations after.”
According to him, “we have planted a few additional churches during the year under review. We are particularly excited because of the success we have experienced in our continued penetration into the interior parts of the diocese, which is the entire Cross River State. Evangelism is our main focus. We have not relented from this at any moment.”
On the state of the nation, the Bishop commended former President Gooduck Jonathan for conceding defeat even before the final result was announced in a general election in the county.
“The take-off tempo, after the election, has been rather slow, so far. The government seems to be majoring on plans to ‘eradicate’ corruption in the system. This is good and expected. But in the process, every other thing has almost come to a standstill. No attention seems to be paid to economic progress; and socio governmental programmes are at a standstill. This is why we think that the take-off of the government has been rather slow,” he lamented.
Bishop Adeleye was of the view that the appointments made so far by the present administration were rather very lopsided, stating that, out of 31 major appointments that had so far been made 24 is from the North while only 7 goes to the South.
“To further support the argument of the Southern neglect, it is said that even the work on the Lagos\Ibadan expressway has since been stopped,” he noted.
While commending the turnaround maintenance of the NNPC, he lamented that to get electricity for domestic use in the country now has become even more difficult, even after the so called sell of NEPA, stressing that the Church spends about N.6 million monthly on diesel alone.
The Bishop also praised the efforts of our security operatives on their pragmatic effort to stem Boko Haram and other criminal activities in the country.
“On the whole, we still strongly believe that the true federalism is the major way of solving the myriads of challenges in Nigeria. The centre is too attractive and too powerful. The states and regions are impoverished. Until and unless we decentralized into true federalism, we will continue to run around making movements but not advancing,” the man of God enthused.
