{"id":167218,"date":"2019-11-12T12:15:56","date_gmt":"2019-11-12T11:15:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=167218"},"modified":"2019-11-12T12:40:09","modified_gmt":"2019-11-12T11:40:09","slug":"boko-haram-tried-to-convert-me-says-winners-pastor-held-hostage-for-7-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=167218","title":{"rendered":"Boko Haram Tried To Convert Me, Says Winners Pastor Held Hostage For 7 Months"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Moses Oyeleke, a pastor with the Living Faith Church Worldwide, known as Winners\u2019 Chapel, has regained freedom seven months after he was kidnapped by the Boko Haram insurgents.<\/p>\n

Oyeleke is a pastor in Maiduguri, Borno state, where he was kidnapped, alongside a National Youth Corps (NYSC) member last March.<\/p>\n

The two were released after interventions by the state government and two non-governmental organizations, the Kalthum Foundation for Peace, and Initiative for Peace Building.<\/p>\n

Speaking on his release, Oyeleke said they were taken to Sambisa after they were kidnapped on Chibok road in March.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were on our way to Chibok when they caught us and took us to Yale; from there, they took a detour and finally took us to Sambisa.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was the two of us, myself and my brother, who were not released. They have promised us that when they finish discussions, they\u2019ll release them in December; himself and the elder sister of this girl I was released with.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am very happy today that we have been rescued because where we are coming from, we have come from a place of darkness to light; that is why my heart is filled with joy because I have seen my family, friends, and associates.<\/p>\n

\u201cI stayed peacefully with them for up to seven months. Many times they have requested me to convert to Islam, their preachers had preached to me a lot of times but you know when you have wisdom, you relate with people in a way that would not lead to a quarrel.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen they came to preach, I paid attention to everything they said and when they asked me questions about things that I knew would cause problems if I had responded, I always told them I didn\u2019t know so that I wouldn\u2019t say things that would offend them.\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Moses Oyeleke, a pastor with the Living Faith Church Worldwide, known as Winners\u2019 Chapel, has regained freedom seven months after he was kidnapped by the Boko Haram insurgents. Oyeleke is a pastor in Maiduguri, Borno state, where he was kidnapped, alongside a National Youth Corps (NYSC) member last March. The two were released after interventions […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":167219,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,2677],"tags":[2658],"class_list":["post-167218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-religious","tag-a"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=167218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167218\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/167219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=167218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=167218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=167218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}