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President of the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria, PFN, Bishop Francis Wale Oke, has criticised the National Assembly over the proposed restriction on preaching inside commercial buses across the country.

The cleric urged Christians not to stop evangelising in buses and taxis, declaring that he was prepared to confront the lawmakers over the issue and questioning how authorities could imprison more than 65 million Christians.

Speaking to members of his congregation in a video that has gone viral on social media, the PFN President maintained that believers would not comply with such legislation, insisting that preaching in public places remains a core Christian obligation.

He said: “In those days the churches were told not to preach again just like the Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria told you not to preach again in buses, make all the stadiums in Nigeria become a prison because if you want to enforce that law we are coming.

“We will break that law because our master told us to go into the world and preach the gospel to every creature and you sit somewhere there and say that we shouldn’t preach in buses? 

“We will preach in buses, we will preach everywhere because you are evil and making evil decrees. We will rather obey God than man because that is what our fathers told them in those days.

“No Pentecostal must listen to that, I’m the National President of the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria, I lead over 65 million people, everybody go into every taxi, go into every bus and preach.

“Let them arrest us and turn National Stadium into prison, I will come there, let them build more prison; they would be the ones that would go there and rot there while God will judge them.

“You don’t go after killers, those beheading, rapists, you don’t go after kidnappers, you don’t go after bandits who are unlawfully carrying arms, but you are going after us preaching the gospel of peace. 

“We won’t listen to you, you are not God, you are there for a tenure and God will wipe all of you out.

“Those who are promoting that law God would cut them off, we will lay courses upon you and your family except you repent, there is nothing you can do as we are unstoppable. 

“We are up to it, bring it on and see how you will imprison 65 million people and I will order them on the street to march.”

Meanwhile, the Senate has explained that the ban on preaching and hawking inside commercial vehicles was not introduced in the current amendment of the Federal Road Safety Commission Establishment Act, noting that the offences have been part of Nigerian law since 2007.

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