Ernest Odogba

TESTIMONIES April 2011 was the month Nigeria went to the polls to elect their national leaders. The general elections, though adjudged the ‘freest and fairest’ in Nigeria’s political history, were marred with bloody violence in some parts of the North. The Muhammadu Buhari led CPC (Congress for Progressive Change) lost to the incumbent, Goodluck Jonathan of the People Democratic Party (PDP). Some aggrieved members of the CPC went on rampage. Some parts of Northern Nigeria were badly hit by the subsequently violence which instantly developed into a religious war. Buhari is a Northern muslim while Jonathan is a Christian from the Southern part of the Country. Churches, mosques, business places, human lives were destroyed during the crisis. Jigawa is one of the Northern states hit by the violence. Bro Gospel, a member of the Covenant Life Ministry, Kaduna, was at the time of the crisis in Jigawa for his post university service, known as NYSC. Two days earlier, some political thug...

Personal Life's Challenges My experience during the 2000 sharia crises in Kaduna, Nigeria is not funny. Many Christians and pastors were killed and many churches were burnt. The (muslims) came to My compound in thousands with all kinds of equipment, guns, cutlases, fuel and knives to kill us but we would stay by the window and asked the Anointing of the Holy Ghost to blow them away. They would come again and again we will do the same thing. We could not go out of the house untill the third day when God told me move out of this house. On our way driving out we met thousands of them on the way with the road blocked with burnt cars, we thought the end had come as they were to kill us and burn us with my car, one of them ordered that they should leave this people and showed us the root to escape and we knew it was God. A week later I met a muslim woman who live opposite my house she said they have been wondering why they have not been able to kill me, so they made an oat that they will...