The senior pastor of House on the Rock Church says Nigerians in the last eight years have suffered devastating experiences and “a total disaster” under President Muhammdu Buhari.

Mr Adefarasin bemoaned the general situation of the country. He lamented the economic hardship and infrastructure deficit that has plagued the country in recent years, adding that only an exceptional personality could fix the country. 

“With what we have been through as Nigerians over the last eight years, it has been devastating. It has been a total disaster. It has ruined our economy. It has dilapidated our systems, our structure, our infrastructure. It has dilapidated our economy in a way that will take exceptional personalities and exceptional cabinet to actually fix,” Mr Adefarasin said while addressing worshipers who attended The Experience global worship concert at the Tafawa Balewa Square, Lagos, in the early hours of Saturday. 

Mr Adefarasin further called for the political participation of the audience, tasking them to play their part in the nation-building process. 

“We have a responsibility at hand, and it is to rescue our nation from the mishaps of this fourth attempt at republicanism and democracy. Something must happen,” he added. 

Several indices of socioeconomic development have plummeted under the Buhari regime in the last seven years. Material living conditions have been measured at a historically unbearable state for Nigerians, with 133 million people plunged into multidimensional poverty, according to figures from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS). 

Nigeria’s tertiary education has also suffered the longest cumulative strike action in its history, disrupting academic plans and calendars for many students in irreparable ways. These challenges, as well as the country’s health crisis, are worsened by an unprecedented internal security crisis which has continued to tear part of the country apart, killing and displacing millions of individuals. 

The failures of Mr Buhari’s regime have led previously politically indifferent religious institutions to take posturing, with several churches endorsing their preferred candidates or emphasising the need to register and vote to their members.