By Ebunoluwa Sessou
The President of the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN), Bishop Wale Oke, has strongly opposed the proposed restriction on preaching in commercial buses, declaring that Christians would continue to evangelise regardless of any legislation seeking to curb the practice.
Speaking during a church sermon on Sunday, Oke described the measure as an attack on Christians’ constitutional and biblical responsibility to preach the gospel, insisting that members of the fellowship would resist its enforcement.
According to him, “Our Master told us to go into the world and preach the gospel to every creature. You sit somewhere there, and you are saying we shouldn’t preach in buses. We will preach in buses. We will preach everywhere because you are making evil decrees. We will rather obey God than man,” he said.
The cleric also criticised the National Assembly for, in his view, prioritising restrictions on religious activities instead of addressing insecurity, kidnapping, banditry and other violent crimes.
