Primate Elijah Ayodele, Founder of INRI Evangelical Spiritual Church, Lagos, Nigeria, has once again come out hard like the prophets of old, telling the people the naked truth.
This time while speaking to Journalists at the international headquarters of his church at Ejigbo on Sunday, August 9, 2025, made it clear that those behind Boko Haram and banditry in the northern Nigeria are northerners.
He said these people sponsoring Boko Haram are northern elites, he called them big fish.
He warned on the dangers of government not giving adequate support to the army chiefs who are ready more than ever before to deal decisively with the terrorists and bandits.
He said these are the people protecting and preventing arrests of the bandits, he further said that the government must arrest them and damn the consequences.
Primate Ayodele stated that what the army is doing now is what will make terrorists and bandits to fizzle out.
He said a new Boko Haram look-alike is coming and they would team up with Boko Haram to attack many African nations.
Primate Ayodele stated, “This terrorist matter, those behind it must be brought to book.
“If Government does not support the Service Chiefs, because they are big fish, prominent people from the North, they are the ones that are protecting these people, that they don’t want them to be arrested, until those super names are arrested and damn the consequences, nothing will be achieved.
“With what the Nigerian army is doing now, that is what will make Boko Haram, banditry to fizzle out.
“Of course they want to use insecurity to destroy Tinubu’s second term ambition, all his efforts, his Government efforts and the service Chiefs efforts to be in vain.
“The Chief of Army Staff is doing all he can to see that he frees Nigeria from these terrorist attacks.
“As from September, October and November, they must watch Benue, Adamawa, Katsina, Borno and even Yobe, because they are planning very deadly attacks; but those planning this will be arrested.
“These people are heartless, these people are not humans, and they even want to use them to cause more tension in the North.
“The Northerners are the people behind Boko Haram.
“And as a matter of fact, apart from Al-Qaeda, there is another brand of Boko Haram trying to join a force with Boko Haram to terrorize African nations.
“Mali, Niger, Chad, Benin Republic, Togo, Burundi, they want to terrorize those places, Cameroon, even up to Taraba Border, so the Nigerian Army will get very few key people arrested,” he stated.
