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As the Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) lockdown announced by President Muhammadu Buhari reaches day 26, General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), Pastor Enoch Adejare Adeboye has advised Nigerians to continue staying at home.
TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) reports Pastor Adeboye gave the advice during a live service on Sunday while teaching on a message titled ‘power’, stressing that where the word of a president is, there is power.
“Now, there are categories of power. There is political power. Ecclesiastes chapter 8 verse 4 says, where the word of the king is, there is power. You put it in the modern language, where the word of the president is, there is power.
“If you don’t believe that, just check what is happening. President sits in his house, makes a decree or a pronouncement: everybody stay home. If you love yourself, you better stay home,” Pastor Adeboye, fondly referred to as Daddy GO said.
Nigeria has been under lockdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic. After President Buhari imposed the lockdown for Lagos and Ogun States, and the federal capital territory (FCT), Abuja as parts of measures to control the disease, other States followed suit.
Even, the Governors of the 36 States of the federation through the Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF) recently wrote to the President to include inter-state lockdown, overnight curfew and compulsory wearing of face masks in the public in his next pronouncements.
As of March 30 when Buhari first pronounced the 14-day lockdown, there were 97 cases of COVID-19 in the country but on April 13 when the lockdown elapsed, the cases had risen to 323. The President, however, extended the lockdown by two weeks, explaining that “alarming” increase in cases made him do so.
Nigerians are anxious to know the next presidential directive on the lockdown as there are currently 1,182 confirmed COVID-19 cases in the country.