Nigerian government persecuted me in many areas of human life when the church had not received international support. Four areas of the persecutions are described below:
1. Politics
I went to the office of the Independent National Electoral Commission in Karu, Abuja (F.C.T.) in May, 2017 to register as a voter. I got there in the hour of eleven in the morning but the staff told me an unlawful story. They said they welcomed people for registration at 6.00a.m. and gave them numbers. After that, the people came one by one to get registered according to the numbers given to them. This was contrary to the publication which INEC released in April, 2017 summoning the public to appear for voter's registration. In that publication, INEC stated that the voter's registration would be conducted from 9.00a.m. to 3.00p.m. , Mondays to Fridays exclusive of public holidays. I tried to invoke that publication but the INEC staff in Karu did not listen. So I went back and waited. I went for the registration again on 18th October, 2017 . I arrived in Karu at 10.23a.m. and the INEC staff repeated the same story. This time they referred me to Mararaba office excusing themselves that the location of my residence fell under the jurisdiction of Mararaba, Nassarawa State. Then I proceeded to the INEC office in Mararaba. The staff there asked me to come back on the morrow to collect a number that would guarantee my chance of registering after seven days. I told them of the April publication. They said that what they were doing was different. I left them and went back.
I was a member of Green Party of Nigeria. I sought nomination to stand as the party's Governorship candidate in Benue State for 2019 and I sought to win the general election of 2nd March, 2019 . It was important for me to make my party aware of my political activities so that strength would be added to me where failure sought dominion. In view of this, I called on the National Chairman of Green Party of Nigeria to answer one question for me. If his office was saturated with questions, a member who had authority to act on his behalf could answer me. This was the question: When junior INEC staff ignore the directives of their Chairman, what can politicians do? I presented the topic containing this question on wordpress. I waited but I got no answer.
I thought deeply as to why my party did not answer me. That question was not my only issue. I made another presentation on Facebook appealing to the party's National Chairman, Chief Sam Ike, to sponsor my election. A person commented on the presentation showing that he accepted my request. The person's name was Abba Ahmed. I waited up to the end of nomination but there was no further communication with me. Even as Internet provides quick communication, my party did not use it to reach me. Psychologically, the group of people who prevented my voter's registration went as far as preventing my election sponsorship. Those junior INEC staff just received signals and acted where they were. The big people who stood to block me were unknown to me. When a telescope and other devices are used to investigate, those people will be known.
2. Religion
I went to Corporate Affairs Commission to make church registration. I created my portal on 23rd June, 2020 . I started name search on the same day. The name - Goals Of Angels Church - was approved on 25th June, 2020 . I proceeded to name reservation and paid the required fee on 29th June, 2020 . I paid thirty-seven thousand naira (N37,000.00) . The commission notified all registrants to suspend activities in the existing portals and await amendment. I was involved. I waited. The amendment lasted for six months. When my amended portal came out in January, 2021 , I noticed a barrier to continuity. The previous portal had a provision for a founder of a religious organization to incorporate himself/herself as a sole trustee while the amended portal blocked that provision. That was when my church registration moved electronically to pending.
Being alone in my church, I could not present other trustees. I stood aside and watched how things went. I asked questions when the commission provided links for questions on its website. That became my limited participation. On 9th December, 2021 , the commission again permitted the presentation of a sole trustee in a religious registration. However, my registration for Goals Of Angels Church could not go forth or back. My portal placed the registration under pending.
I reasoned that Corporate Affairs Commission went into amendment to specifically block my registration and continue with others. Nigerian government feared to give me certificate of incorporation and due benefits. One benefit was foreign direct investment. I saw it in the commission's publications. Poland/CorporateAffairsCommission was mentioned. There was another benefit which I used Psychology to think that I deserved. I thought I deserved power to acquire pistols. A preacher is likely to be believed in. A preacher is also likely to be persecuted. In the angle of persecution, I deserve pistols to effect arrest where less tension builds. An example is where people confront me with oral abuses. I deserve pistols to shoot where great tension builds. An example is where people confront me with violence.
Nigerian government belittled me. When I went into a midst of people, I was considered below a police constable or an army private. When I was a child, I was told that a person who begins a religious organization becomes an army general instantly. As I have grown up, I have seen one more honour of a religious leader by myself. I have seen that the pope of catholic church uses a private helicopter like a private car. What is the position of the pope on social stratification? What was my own position on social stratification as I Founded Goals Of Angels Church? Where was my rank of army general? Where was my private helicopter? I decided against begging Nigerian government to implement laws for me to gain upliftment. I focused on God's intervention. I believed that He who sent me would not abandon me.
3. Education
The Vice Chancellor of National Open University Of Nigeria, Pof. Abdalla Uba Adamu, said on 6th March, 2020 that the university would award scholarship to all prisoner students from bachelor's to doctorate degrees. The initiative gave me deep thoughts. Firstly, I asked myself what would make a student to become a prisoner without contravening any government law. I found nothing as the answer. A prisoner is a person who is judged and convicted for breaking a/some government law(s). The imprisonment is the punishment considered due for his/her act(s). Why should a punished offender be rewarded at the same time? My second thought was that National Open University Of Nigeria initiated the sale of human parts. If a student deliberately committed offences to go to prison and win the stated scholarship, he/she might be bodily deformed. I once saw a beautiful lady moving with one leg in Wurukum, Makurdi, Benue State of Nigeria. I have ever seen young men moving with one hand in Nigeria. I always fear to question what happend to them. If students of National Open University Of Nigeria gained scholarship from bachelor's degree to PhD and began to move with one hand or one leg, what would be the value? Their parents and loved ones could not smile. They, themselves, could not feel comfortable. They could not be effectively used as manpower anywhere. What then could be the value?
Those offences that would be committed for imprisonment and scholarship would affect other people as well. Let us take an example. One hundred students might unite to kill ten thousand people in a rural market on one day. Would that not be genocide? Would such students be imprisoned and awarded scholarship? I was prompted to question further. Did the Vice Chancellor consult the entire academia before announcing that policy? Academia is not one person or five persons. Academia is a collection of all lecturers and researchers. Why was the money available to educate prisoners not used to educate law-abiding Nigerians?
I stayed in National Open University Of Nigeria for seven semesters without a scholarship. I got my student portal on 3rd July, 2019 . My course was B.Sc. Tourism Studies. I did not write any examination. I only tried to update my portal every semester. There were semesters which I participated in online surveys. There had also been a semester which I registered for authorship when my portal provided links to Emerald journals. I had been in Emerald from then to my departure. This https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9684-6099 could account for my presence in Emerald. An issue of API was under. I thought about Emerald as to whether to continue or discontinue. It was compulsory for me to discontinue as I left National Open University Of Nigeria.
I spent N68,000 (plus Remita charges) before admission and during my first semester. I spent N5000 on admission form in February, 2019 . I applied for Biochemistry as my course. When I repeated checking requirements, I saw compulsion for a credit in Physics. In fact, my O'level certificate reflected eight credits and one pass. The pass was in Physics. I went to the study centre of the university located along Kubwa road, Abuja to enquire. I was asked to contact ICT where my money would be retrieved and paid for a correctly filled admission form. I contacted the ICT in Makurdi Study Centre, Benue State. The official gave me unending appointments. He kept asking me to go and return. A period of screening approached. I suspected that he desired me to lose the near semester and face the next. So I used N5000 again (without going to ICT) and filled another admission form. This time, I selected B.Sc. Tourism Studies for which I met all requirements. A few days later, I underwent screening and passed. I got my matriculation number. I created my student portal on 3rd July, 2019 . I paid registration fees in the first semester that amounted to N58,000 . I left out examination fees. In my second semester, the N58,000 was refunded to me. I saw it in my e-wallet on one day. It disappeared on the next day. I waited to see. A month later, the Vice Chancellor converted scholarship to prisoner students and announced on 6th March, 2020 .
4. Personal Life
Around 3.00p.m. on 29th November, 2021 , a lady appeared to me while I walked on the road towards Karu Market and accused me of owing her twenty thousand naira. She said I borrowed the money from her in the first week of November, 2021 . She gave false identities about me claiming that I worked in an oil company, I had a car and a certain phone number. I denied but she beckoned to thugs and they surrounded me. Seeing that she worked at a P.O.S. unit nearby, I told her that bankers generally use CCTV and she should confirm her words electronically. Those thugs were angry at hearing the term "CCTV" and started hitting me with rods. Some money was removed from my pocket. Policemen/women were there. I was taken to Karu Police Station. The police established that those identities given about me were false. However, the lady was permitted to go away respectably. She was not punished. She was not asked to compensate me. Five hundred naira (N500) was still taken from me to pay the cyclists who conveyed the lady, the police and me.
I had two instances of derision earlier than the above. One instance was on 18th January, 2021 around 3.30p.m. I was walking across a road in Garki, Abuja. Policemen came behind me and arrested me. They took me to Area 3 Police Station. I stayed there until night. None of them told me the offence I committed. They released me at their will. Another instance was on 29th January, 2021 . I was walking along a road in Wuse Zone 4 , Abuja. Policemen arrested me. They drove through different roads in Abuja from 2.15p.m. to 8.00p.m. The sitting arrangement in the bus was too compacted. Some people sat on others. We arrived Banex Plaza, Wuse 2, Abuja at a point in the time mentioned. There at Banex Plaza, the police attempted to snatch a woman's baby. The woman held her baby tightly and shouted. The police moved away. If there was any offence against the woman, why was she not taken with her baby? They wanted her baby alone. This was a separate fact to note. We finally arrived Area 3 Police Station at 8.00p.m. I was kept there up to the next day. In the morning, I complained that my laptop and other belongings were unsafe in a hotel room because the staff would open my door if payment expired. The police did not care. They kept me there until 4.00p.m. of that 30th January, 2021 . Still, they released me without description of my offence.
My opinion was that Muhammadu Buhari and his predecessors continuously sponsored thuggery against me. They sponsored Nigerian police, army, navy, airforce and other security operatives. I looked for foreign powers. I believed foreign personalities appearing for my aid would search through telescope and other devices. They would get those thugs who tampered with my freedom to personal life. They would punish them. I expected no amount of money as compensation for their acts. I expected them to be punished by death or imprisonment.
