No Crisis Rocking PFN, Says Spokesman Isong

National Publicity Secretary of the Pentecostal fellowship of Nigeria (PFN), Archbishop Emmah Isong has refuted the rumour making the rounds that the PFN leadership was in disarray.

Isong spoke this on a telephone interview with LEADERSHIP on Monday in Calabar, the Cross River State capital.

The cleric expressed dismay over a piece published in one national dailies where the author had defamed the PFN National President, Archbishop Dr Wale Oke.

The said author accused Bishop Oke of lacking capacity to lead the Christian body if reelected for the second term.

“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. Oke to stand tall above other contemporaries to include promotion of peace, love, unity and friendship in the fellowship.

“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,” he said.

Isong said, “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.”

Describing Oke as a man of integrity with capacity to lead the Christian body at all times, he stressed that he is a man whose life is filled with wisdom.

“The wisdom has helped strengthened the administration of the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria,” adding that the cleric is one man who had worked so tirelessly with the National Advisory Council to lift the body of Christ to an enviable height.