The national publicity secretary, Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN), Archbishop Dr Emmah Isong, has refuted the rumour making the rounds in certain quarters that PFN leadership was in disarray.
Isong spoke during a telephone conversation with LEADERSHIP yesterday in Calabar.
The cleric expressed dismay over a piece published in one of the national dailies in which the author defamed the PFN national president, His Eminence Archbishop Dr Wale Oke, of lacking capacity to lead the Christian body if reelected for a second term, alleging that Oke is inept and incompetent. Isong described this scenario as a calculated attempt by the author to scuttle Oke’s reelection bid.
“I think the fellow misfired. I have seen that national daily featured by the young man. I wish to tell you that there is no storm whatsoever in the PFN.
“There are no schism in our great Fellowship and our national president His Eminence, Archbishop Dr. Francis Wale Oke, is leading the fellowship robustly.
“In his leadership, we have found greater moment of unity and friendship. Never had the PFN enjoyed a high apex of relationship like this.
“To me, never had the fellowship been this vibrant. I do not know who the said journalist spoke with.
“I am the national publicity secretary, if anybody was to speak according to him to leaders of our Pentecostal fellowship, he should have mistakenly contacted me for that information.
“I think it’s a roadside discussion. It’s a street talk that doesn’t hold water,” Isong stated.
He enumerated five attributes that has made Dr. Wale Oke to stand tall above other contemporaries to include, promotion of peace, love, unity and friendship in the fellowship since he came on board as national president.
“Oke, has brought peace, unity across the 36 states and local government chapters of the PFN.
“Oke, has raised the fellowship to a point that we have strong, young generation leaders, a new generation leaders whom we call the next generation of PFN.
“This is the first time, we have laid a foundation in our second national Secretariat at Abuja. Our National Secretariat had been in Lagos in the past 40 years and now we are going to have another Secretariat in Abuja, this has never been so.
“Right now we are on our 40 days of fasting for Nigeria, his proactiveness has woken up the church to prayers.”
He described Oke as a man of integrity with capacity to lead the Christian body at all times stressing that he is a man whose life is filled with wisdom.
“The wisdom has helped strengthen the administration of the Pentecostal fellowship of Nigeria,” adding that the cleric is one man who has worked tirelessly with the National Advisory Council to lift the body of Christ to an enviable height.
