"SOME OF THE WAYS THE NIGERIA'S BIGGEST PASTORS USE THEIR INFLUENCES"

(i). Pastor Enoch Adeboye was reported to have used his own personal influence and the relationship he has with the former Nigeria's President Olusegun Obasanjo to get an import waiver that cost the Nigerian tax payers about $120 dollar in lost federal revenue. This man was also recently mentioned by Lamido Sanusi Lamido, the head of the Central Bank of Nigeria to have used the same political influence and connections to get one of the Nigeria's most corrupt banker, Erasmus Akingbola, the former Chief Executive Officer of InterContinental Bank PLC and a pastor in the Redeemed Christian Church of God who personally siphoned more than N200 billion ($1.25 billion) of customers' money in his bank from the legal prosecution by the competent court of law in Nigeria.

(ii). Pastor Ayo Oritsajafor, the President of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) enjoyed unresisted access to the then President Olusegun Obasanjo and now to President Jonathan Goodluck. But this man has used his personal connections for himself, to heat up the body polity of Nigeria in a highly divisive manner, to openly defend one of the most corrupt governments in the history of Nigeria and to publicly support an unjust anti-gay law in Nigeria the Jesus Christ will never had supported.

(iii). Bishop David Oyedepo used his own personal influence to pay a nocturnal visit to the Aso Rock villa for prayers for the then ailing President Musa Yar'Adua when the nation of Nigeria was kept in the complete darkness and in the state of political uncertainty about the true state of the health of the then President as well as the future of Nigeria as a nation. This man has also used his influence to evade taxes meant for the Ogun State government and to physically slapped a young girl, attacked and assaulted Ogun State tax officials on duty without any legal consequences against him to date in Nigeria.

These Nigerian Pastors above can learn from another influential Pastor by the name of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr who preached the gospel of Christ and then used his own influence to challenge the status quo, to speak truth to power and to eventually change American nation for better and forever where a black man by the name of Barack Obama is now the President of the only superpowernation and the richest country in the world today.