Anambra: Don't be afraid to offend religious leaders, Nwachukwu, PFN urge Soludo

By Okechukwu Onuegbu


Religious leaders in Anambra State, weekend, urged the incoming governor of the State, Prof. Charles Soludo to get ready to offend leadership of religious institutions if he must succeed in the next four years.

Soludo, the winner of Anambra State 2021 gubernatorial poll under the All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA), is billed to takeover mantle of leadership from Chief Willie Obiano this week Thursday, March 17.

The presiding Bishop, the Grace of God Mission, Paul Nwachukwu gave the advice in Awka, the State capital at Alaigbo Sunrise Prayer Crusade organised by PFN to pray for progress and emancipation of Igbo nation.

According to Nwachukwu, Anambra State had been bedeviled with religious politics, which if set aside and embrace competency, God would use the new administration to change the State and Igbo nation by extension.

"If Soludo must succeed, he must get ready to offend religious leaders. He will perform when he gets ready to offend religious leaders. He must do away with religious politics when he takes over. He needs people in his cabinet that can tell him the truth and support his administration by doing the right things. He needs our prayers.

" If at least 10 persons from every Church can support him with prayers, he will surely succeed. But to do this right, everyone must also repent. Our church leaders must repent. He needs competent people around him to succeed. We need people who are qualified not based on their religious inclination or party," he noted.

Also speaking, the State Chairman of PFN, Bishop Moses Ezedebego, said that God has remembered the Igbo nation and would through Anambra State, extends blessing and revival to the country at large.

On his part, the Chairman of PFN Idemili South chapter, Rev. Dr Stephen Ogbu, described Soludo as prayers answered governor, noting that he would lead Anambra State to a Promised Land if he adheres to their advice.

Ogbu, who earlier led chairmen of PFN from 21 Local Government Areas to endorse Bishop Ezedebego for a second term as Chairman of Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria in the State due to his several achievements, recalled that PFN had prayed fervently for a successful 2021 poll and it came to pass as prayed.