While collation in Abuja continues, APC requests that the DSS detain Pastor Enenche and Dino Melaye
The General Overseer of Dunamis Church, Paul Enenche, was requested to appear before the Directorate of State Services on Monday by the All Progressives Congress Presidential Campaign Council due to his “inciting sermon” last Sunday.
Also, the APC PCC requested that Dino Melaye and Dele Momodu, two spokespersons for the opposition People’s Democratic Party, be detained for allegedly trying to inflame the political climate with their statements.
Dele Alake, the PCC’s Special Advisor on Media and Strategic Communications, made the announcement on Monday in Abuja.
He stated:
“We note with utmost concern those inciting comments and call to violence by some spokespersons for the opposition, especially those from the Peoples Democratic Party. We are particularly concerned and call on the State Security Services and the Nigeria Police Force to immediately restrain persons such as Dino Melaye, Dele Momodu and a certain Pastor Paul Enenche of Dunamis Church from their clear call to violence.“How can a supposed man of God be issuing threat on the pulpit because the person he and his brother endorsed is not winning? How can you desecrate the sanctity of the pulpit on the altar of partisanship? That is an abomination.
“Melaye’s tweet threatening violence, Momodu going on the TV to announce a purported winner and Enenche’s hate speech from the pulpit violate every law of the land. They should not go scot-free. The Christians community in this nation should even rise up to call him to order before the invitation by security agencies. We encourage the DSS to do their work by apprehending and restraining these people calling for violence to reduce the tension.”
Also speaking, a former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode, described the Dunamis preacher’s action as a disgrace to the Pentecostal mission society.
He said,
“I was invited by the DSS for a tweet I made. We are all aware of that. Therefore I see Eneche’s outburst as an insult to so many pastors, particularly Pentecostals like myself. That is because when this violence they are calling for begins, they will run away and leave hapless Nigerians to face it.“What the opposition is doing is trying to heat up the polity and intimidate our supporters.”
