Apostle Suleman Warns Nigerians: Bad Leadership Cannot Be Fixed by Prayer
The Senior Pastor of Omega Fire Ministries, Apostle Johnson Suleman, has warned that no nation can achieve meaningful progress under ineffective leadership, stressing that governance failures continue to deepen Nigeria’s crisis.
Speaking during the Easter Sunday service held on April 5, the cleric lamented what he described as growing insensitivity among Nigerian leaders toward the hardships confronting citizens. PulseNets learnt that his remarks come amid renewed concerns over insecurity and humanitarian distress across several parts of the country.
Referencing the recent killings in communities within Jos North Local Government Area of Plateau State, Suleman criticised the government’s response pattern, particularly what he portrayed as an overemphasis on optics rather than genuine empathy for victims of violence.
“When people are grieving, tell your media to keep quiet. Because if it doesn’t touch you, it will touch you if you don’t scream out.”
He further argued that leadership choices directly shape national outcomes, warning that spiritual interventions alone cannot offset the consequences of poor governance.
“It’s a waste praying when you have elected a bad person. The only prayer you’ll need to pray is the grace to survive the suffering.”
Suleman also condemned what he described as a disturbing trend where tragedy is met with media management rather than compassion, noting that such actions reflect a dangerous erosion of moral responsibility in leadership.
“The height of insensitivity is when people are mourning and you’re sending media to do damage control. I am sorry to say but this is one of the most terrible times to be a Nigerian because evil is becoming regular.”
He questioned the psychological toll of repeated exposure to violence, suggesting that the normalization of mass killings is gradually reshaping public consciousness in troubling ways.
“Do you know what that does to you? You wake up and they say 40 people have been killed in so-so-so place. And we move on… do you know what that does to the construct of your mind?”
PulseNets reported that the cleric warned that the frequency of such incidents is desensitizing Nigerians, weakening collective empathy and reducing human tragedy to mere statistics.
“And now, we are now debating numbers, oh it’s 50, it’s 45, like we are debating numbers of chickens that we roasted.”
He contrasted the current situation with the past, when a single death within a community would draw prolonged public attention, arguing that society’s moral threshold has significantly declined.
“In the past when one man dies in a street, for one month people will still be talking about it but now it’s a normal thing, a mother is burying a child and all they do is just photo-ops.
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Suleman concluded by reiterating that attempts to silence criticism through media responses further compound the problem, describing it as the peak of leadership disconnect.
“And when you talk, they send their media people, that’s the height of insensitivity,” the cleric added.
