PFN leads peaceful protest in Lagos over growing insecurity

…Urges FG to save Nigeria from terror

The Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN) on Sunday held a peaceful procession in protest against the growing state of insecurity across Nigeria.

The PFN converged on The GoodLand in Ogudu after a 3-day national call to prayer tagged, ‘The Consuming Fire’ and said its high time the Federal Government (FG) took urgent actions to curb the senseless killings of innocent Nigerians across the country.

“The level of banditry, kidnapping, violence, insecurity and savage killings all across the Nigerian landscape has risen to an intolerable height such that every Nigerian should cry out against it to God for divine intervention, and to our governments for immediate and effective action,” Francis Wale Oke, national president of PFN, stated on Sunday.

Oke, who was represented by Yemi Davids, chairman, Lagos State chapter of PFN, said Nigerians were sick and tired of the evil and the apparent misplaced focus on winning elections by all means rather than focusing the full weight of the law and federal might on crushing the killers of Nigerians.

“Rather than doing this, our governments are ‘rehabilitating’ our so-called ‘repentant’ Boko Haram killers. even drafting them into our security network,” he said.

According to the PFN, Nigerians are burdened because the country’s valiant Generals and their gallant soldiers are being killed like chickens because the country’s security system has been infiltrated and fatally compromised.

“What is going on in Nigeria does more than take lives. It fractures unity, scares away investors, drives our best minds abroad, weakens the bond between the citizens and the State and creates a wave of insecurity and terror that make the Nigerian people no longer feel safe,” Oke said.

According to him, the national executive council of the PFN met on the night of Tuesday May 19, 2026, to pray and deliberate on what is going on in Nigeria, and resolved as a Pentecostal community spread across every state of Nigeria to stand together in spiritual warfare, fast, and pray to God for divine intervention.

“We also resolved to speak out against this evil, hoping that our government will give it deserved attention. We have fasted. We have prayed. Now we speak.

“We call on the Federal Government to fulfil its constitutional and moral duty of protecting every citizen of Nigeria irrespective of tribe or religion, so that we can truly be a nation where no one is oppressed,” Oke said.