Rev Musa Likita, President, North-East Baptist Conference
By Akanji Alowolodu, Bauchi
Church leadership in the country has been challenged to wakeup and fill in the gap created by the failed leadership of the country therefore plunging the country into the myriad of challenges facing it.
The challenge was thrown by the President of North East Baptist Conference, Rev Musa Likita while delivering a paper at the 2022 Leadership Retreat held at First Baptist Church, bauchi on Saturday.
He said that the country’s leadership has indeed failed Nigerians in all ramifications to the extent that nothing is positively moving in the country, “Nigeria is now like sheep without shepherd”.
According to him, “the country’s leadership promised us something but doing something different. The leadership promised us security but now we cannot sleep in our houses with our eyes closed”.
Musa Likita added that, “there is unease everywhere you go, even the economy is not spared, nobody is sure of what happens next because of the uncertainty that abound. What needs to be done is to go back to God for intervention”.
The Conference President then challenged Church leaders to rise up to the occasion because according to him, that is what God is expecting from them and the reason he put them there as leaders.
He said that the Church is looking to them as leaders who must offer solace saying, “your ability to stand in the gap for the Church will have positive impact on what happens in the country as a whole”.
“You have to stand up to be on your knees to pray to God for divine intervention, the challenges are overwhelming and discouraging, but, with God, all things are possible. All we have to do as spiritual leaders is to rise up to our calling”, the Clergyman admonished.
