Senior Pastor of House on the Rock Church, Paul Adefarasin, has stirred controversy after declaring during a sermon that he does not believe Nigeria was created by God.
Speaking to his congregation, the clergyman argued that Nigeria was a colonial creation designed to serve the economic interests of the British, not a divine mandate.
“I don’t believe Nigeria was created by God. This nation was created for the business of the British purse so they wouldn’t have to bear the bill for the less prosperous parts of the region,” Adefarasin said.
He claimed that the country’s name was not of indigenous origin but was given by a woman, the girlfriend of a British official while Lord Lugard and other colonial administrators finalized the union.
Adefarasin further insisted that Nigeria’s so-called founding fathers — Obafemi Awolowo, Tafawa Balewa, Ahmadu Bello, and Nnamdi Azikiwe were not the true originators of the nation. Instead, he attributed Nigeria’s creation to “some men from Whitehall” in Britain.
The preacher lamented Nigeria’s economic stagnation, stressing that the country should by now be “the factory of Africa,” but instead has been reduced to a dumping ground for second-hand goods.
He called for urgent reforms in education, particularly technical schools, to equip the masses with skills for invention and manufacturing, citing China as an example.
“We have people poorer than their laborers. Nigeria must rise to become the factory of the world. But it will take men of justice and equity who devote themselves to nation-building,” Adefarasin charged.
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