Bible Gospel Church in Africa (BIGOCA) bishop Peter Ndhlovu has said God appoints presidents and other leaders through people.

The bishop said leadership came from God, but that it has to take people to appoint a leader and if one was not appointed through people they would never be a president.

" If God doesn't appoint you through people, you will never be president, you can't break what God has put in place, if God has called you to be a pastor you will be, but if you call yourself you will fail, but if God called you, you will succeed," he said.

Bishop Ndhlovu said God called President Rupiah Banda and he occupied that seat because of the divine intervention of the Lord, and called on churches to pray for their leaders because the nation needed its leaders to be God fearing.

He said the nation should be founded on God's principles adding that Zambia would never fall prey to those that might promote anarchy.

The bishop said this at BIGOCA Church in Matero yesterday when President Banda joined them in a Church service worship.

He said when president Chiluba's time came, he appointed the late Levy Mwanawasa who in turn also went all the way to Chipata in Eastern Province and appointed Mr Rupiah Banda now the president.

And the bishop has congratulated the president for partnering with China in its endeavors to bring development in the nation saying any country, which did not deal with China was bound to fail.