Presidency 2015: Jonathan Dumps Oritsejafor for Bishop Oyedepo, Uma-Ukpai


Bishop Mike Okonkwo Blast David Oyedepo over his hatchet job for Jonathan against fellow Christian Osinbajo- Read story in Part B of this thread

Ahead of the 2015 presidential polls, Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan had dumped his erstwhile close friend and business associate ,Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor in favor of the President of Living Faith Church (Winners Chapel), Bishop David Oyedepo, as the arrow head of support for his re-election battle among Nigerian Christians.

Bishop Oyedepo was among the prominent pastors who attended a meeting last month in Abuja with resident Jonathan where the clerics vowed to give the president the votes of the Nigerian Christian Community.. In the said meeting efforts of some pastors from the war ravaged zones of the north to draw the attention of the president to the state of insecurity in the north was overshadowed by the fatherly voice of Bishop Oyedepo, who asked those present to concentrate on the forthcoming polls.

Bishop Oyedepo has also successfully mobilized church members and pastors to pray for the corporate existence of Nigeria and the protection of President Jonathan and his immediate family from arrows of darkness.



There is also an unwritten marching order which suggests that Bishop Oyedepo is favorable to Jonathan’s re-election and pastors under the ministry have surreptitiously started toeing the line.

It was an over grateful Jonathan that came to Cannan land Otta to worship two weeks earlier and thank the Bishop for all the prayers and spiritual support from him and his congregation. Sources within the Villa told our reporters that President Jonathan believes that a church with over 4 million members with lots of admirers like Winners Chapel is of more political asset than the gallivanting Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor, Chairman of Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), whom they believe has lost his political value due to the numerous scandals especially the South African Arms Smuggling scandal..

President Jonathan had also enlisted the support of popular pastors like Paul Enenche, Paul Adefarasin, Uma Ukpai among others in the fight to defeat Buhari. Uma Ukpai has promised to do all within his power spiritually and otherwise to ensure that the South East churches where he has tremendous follower-ship bows down to Jonathan.

The strategy of the president’s campaign team with lots of input from Femi-Fani Kayode, was to use the tremendous goodwill of these pastors to ensure that Christians vote for Jonathan,and also to ensure that Christians reject any post-election violence in the event that Buhari loses the election. Part of the strategy was to link Buhari with plot to Islamize Nigeria and also portray Professor Osibanjo as stooge with no electoral value. The plot also includes portraying Buhari and the opposition party as sinister and calling upon Nigerian Christians not to allow Buhari to turn the nation into another Turkish experiment whereby a once predominantly Christian nation became an Islamic state.

Pastors and priests under CAN and PFN have alleged that the N10 billion naira budgeted by the presidency to induce pastors to coerce their members to support Jonathan’s re-election have been hijacked by few ministers who call all forms of spurious meetings and collect their signature to justify the huge billions collected.

Many of them spoke with the Director General of Igbo Mandate Congress (IMC) and Director of Media of General Assembly of all Igbo Christian Organizations and Ministers (GAAICOM), Rev Obinna Akukwe on conditions of anonymity claimed that they are yet to receive their own share of the over N10 billion naira budgeted for pastors and priests through the President’s goodwill.

They promised a showdown with those they claimed collected money on their head and refused to give them their share.

The General Coordinator of GAAICOM, Apostle Dr PCJ Macjossy told The Director General Igbo Mandate Congress, Rev Obinna Akukwe, and leaders of IMC that it is wrong for pastors to fleece Goodluck Jonathan of billions of naira in the name of support for his re-election. He promised to convey an emergency meeting of church leaders to address the issue of financial inducements.. Though voicing support for Jonathan re-election, Apostle Macjossy believes that collecting billions for vote is anti-Christian.

Archbishop A. A Nwodika of Throne of Grace Mission told Rev Akukwe that though he will personally vote for Jonathan it is wrong for pastors to be induced to support a particular candidate. He said that ” Christians should vote either ruling or opposition party as their conscience permits them”.

The Archbishop decried the influence of Money among ministers and warned that ”only the gospel of peace and repentance can save Nigeria”.

In his reaction another Enugu based cleric’ Bishop Tim Obidike said that though he heard rumours of money sharing, he has not been given a dime and that ” I will vote my conscience in the elections and I am too principled to be swayed by monetary considerations” He also condemned the attacks on Bishop Oyedepo and said that ”the statements attributed to him during Jonathan’s visit to Canaan land is untrue and that the Bishop only prayed for Nigeria”


SOURCE:http://abusidiqu.com/presidency-2015-jonathan-dumps-oritsejafor-bishop-oyedepo-uma-ukpai/?utm_source=&utm_medium=twitter

With 10 Days To Election, Jonathan Splits Nigerian Pastors,as Bishop Okonkwo Blasts Oyedepo

The General Overseer of The Redeemed Evangelical Mission (TREM)
Bishop Mike Okonkwo, has criticized Bishop Oyedepo and other Pastors for exempting Pastor Yemi Osinbajo from a meeting of Christian leaders held recently at the Redeemed Christian Church of God on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway.

Okonkwo according to Sahara Reporters, lambasted the meeting for not inviting Pastor Yemi Osinbajo who himself is a Christian leader and pastor.


Okonkwo said the least the Christian leaders could have done was to invite Osinbajo and hear from him, adding that not doing that was “an act of cowardice.”

Bishop Oyedepo however did not take kindly to that suggestion from a Bishop of equal caliber, and demanded an apology from Okonkwo, but Okonkwo, equally annoyed, insisted on his position and refused to offer an apology at the tension-filled meeting.

It was also gathered that Bisshop Oyedepo maintained his advocacy for President Jonathan at the meeting at times in vehement anger and outright disrespect for the opposing views of the other pastors.

A leading Bishop from the North spoke up against the plans of Oyedepo and Oritsejafor to mobilize support for the president.

Christian leaders in the North have always criticized the lust of some Southern Christian leaders for material things making them not to empathize with the sufferings of the Christians in the North, who are facing persecution.

Bishop Jonas Katung of the Maranatha Churchin, Jos, explained that President Jonathan has done nothing in the past four years deserving of a second term. Katung, who is known as the Lion of Jos, was ordained Bishop in Jos by RCCG’s Pastor E.A. Adeboye in 2013.

He strongly advocated that the Buhari-Osinbajo ticket should be given a chance given the level of failure of the incumbent.

Pastor Mathew Kasali of the Foundation of Truth Assembly in Lagos also spoke passionately at the meeting, calling on the Christian leaders to remain neutral and not become encumbered with partisan issues for any reason. He also supported Bishop Okonkwo that Pastor Osinbajo, “who is one of us,” should be allowed to address the meeting.

A source at the meeting disclosed that the national clamor for change in the country as being captured by the Buhari-Osinbajo ticket has now become a source of great fear by several Christian leaders in the Southern part of the country, essentially because of their own selfish interests.

He asked in disappointment, “Where is the fear of God in the lives of some of these leaders?”

It would be recalled that Pastor Tunde Bakare has also criticised CAN and PFN for endorsing President Goodluck Jonathan for the 14 February presidential election at the expense of one of their own, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, the running mate to the All Progressives Congress, APC, presidential candidate, Muhammadu Buhari.

READ MORE: http://www.naij.com/379526-with-10-days-to-election-jonathan-splits-nigerian-pastors.html

Really?

The rate at which Oyedepo's name is being mentioned with everything sinister or evil even if they are mere rumour portend a grave danger for his Ministerial calling

Lately he has become so desperate at doing an hatchet job for a failed product like Jonathan at the detriment of his soul and his quest for Heaven

The church's foundation remains unshakeable on Jesus Christ, her Lord. The enemies of the church can carry on with their cheap propaganda against the church & our godly leaders, those of us who belong to the fold know the voice of our undershepherds, and more importantly our Great Shepherd.
Long live Pastors Kumuyi, Adeboye, Oyedepo, Oritsejafor, Olukoya etc
Long live the Nigerian church
Long live the federal republic of Nigeria.

Hmmm. Very hard to separate Christianity from politics in Nigeria these days

emmasege:
The church's foundation remains unshakeable on Jesus Christ, her Lord. [s]The enemies of the church can carry on with their cheap propaganda against the church & our godly leaders, those of us who belong to the fold know the voice of our undershepherds, and more importantly our Great Shepherd.[/s]
Long live Pastors Kumuyi, Adeboye, Oyedepo, Oritsejafor ,Sam Adeyemi, Olukoya etc
Long live the Nigerian church
Long live the federal republic of Nigeria.

Some of you are so sheepishly sold on some Men of God that you feel they are infallible and can never fall from grace or that they are always right

I was born in Reedeemed.......Got saved in Deeper Life( spent 10years there) and served in the Protocol unit of Daystar while i was around........yet i will never be so blind as not to be able to call out or even reject any man of God if i feel he is trying to use his privilege position to manipulate me against the dictates of my conscience and even the BIBLE

soroptimist:
The rate at which Oyedepo's name is being mentioned with everything sinister or evil even if they are mere rumour portend a grave danger for his Ministerial calling

Lately he has become so desperate at doing an hatchet job for a failed product like Jonathan at the detriment of his soul and his quest for Heaven

some people rightly call him hellfire mai guard!neva knew he had d keys 2 hellfire.

chigo93:
some people rightly call him hellfire mai guard!neva knew he had d keys 2 hellfire.

While that Hellfire talk have been refuted by him

Yet the one where he urged his church members to lynch,kill,burn or mob anyone with the semblance of being a Boko Haram member is a call to serious anarchy

In the US,you would see some white folks,Jewish Americans and even African Americans with well cultivated beard........if those people were Nigerians and decided to attend Winner's Chapel.....by Oyedepo's admonition,members should kill them and spill their blood on the Altar

I blame all these on the failure of Government led by GEJ which has made everyone to seek to resort to self help rather than believe in the law enforcement agencies meant to protect them against internal and external security threats

soroptimist:
The rate at which Oyedepo's name is being mentioned with everything sinister or evil even if they are mere rumour portend a grave danger for his Ministerial calling

Lately he has become so desperate at doing an hatchet job for a failed product like Jonathan at the detriment of his soul and his quest for Heaven

Its can't be rumour, why is it that news from all angle ain't mentioning Kumuyi, Adeboye, Adefarsain, Okonkwo, Oyakhilome etc? Why Oyedepo alone? definitely he's romancing with GEJ in exchange for whatever that will be beneficial to him.

why drag Rev Uma Ukpai into this propaganda now be warned don't say what you don't know.

Pastors organised fasting and prayer for their church members to burry poverty, they still go behind them to sell their members into poverty.

soroptimist:
The rate at which Oyedepo's name is being mentioned with everything sinister or evil even if they are mere rumour portend a grave danger for his Ministerial calling

Lately he has become so desperate at doing an hatchet job for a failed product like Jonathan at the detriment of his soul and his quest for Heaven

100% in agreement. Why only him always? Seems once money is mentioned, the man tells Christ to please, excuse him.

Pathetic that a so called citizen of Heaven is so fixated on cash and worldly things

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