Jonathan Did Not Buy Plane For Me-says Oritsejafor

National President of the Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor, for the first time, publicly dismissed criticisms that continued to trail his acquisition of a private jet with some critics claiming that the gift may have come from the Presidency.


The founder/senior pastor of Word of Life Bible Church, Warri emphatically declared that President Goodluck Jonathan did not contribute a dime for the jet.

Receiving a delegation of Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, Delta State chapter in his Word of Life Bible Church, Warri, last Sunday, Pastor Oritsejafor said the private jet was presented to him on November 10, 2012, by church members within and outside the country in commemoration of his 40th year on the pulpit.

He maintained that over 90 per cent of the funds came from members of the church while the rest was donated by his spiritual children across the globe.

The NLC delegation was in the church for a thanksgiving service in preparation for Workers' Day which held nationwide on Wednesday.

Speaking during that service, Pastor Oritsejafor, arguably one of the greatest philanthropists in the country and perhaps the first CAN president to spend his personal resources to run the CAN secretariat, maintained that concerned members of his congregation and some of his children decided to donate the jet in appreciation of the suffering he underwent whenever he travelled in and out of Nigeria preaching the gospel.

"Word of Life members miss me, my family misses me greatly and appreciating the trauma of connecting flights across the globe; they decided to constitute a committee to raise funds for the purchase of the jet. They reached out to some of my children in and out of the country who generously donated to the course," he explained.

Oritsejafor challenged the Labour leaders to endeavour to do their investigations and if possible use their connections in government to ask President Jonathan if he contributed any kobo to the purchase of the jet, noting "why will people just set out to disparage persons without verifying their facts."

The cleric said given the nature of his work, a plane had become a necessity, wondering why people were deliberately silent on his annual empowerment programmes in the Niger Delta and his numerous reach-out projects to victims of Boko Haram violence in the North, but decided to malign his person.

"My records are there at the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria, PFN, which I led for eight years for anybody to verify just as people are free to come to the CAN Secretariat to make their independent investigat-ions," he stated, adding "I pay for all my bills as CAN president," he stated.

He also defended his call for the arrest of CPC presidential candidate, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (rtd) whose comments during the 2011 electioneering campaigns are believed to have precipitated the post-election violence that followed the announcement of results of the election.

The CAN president had come under tremendous criticism over the plane with Catholic Bishop Matthew Hassan Kukah describing him as an embarrassment to Christianity while former Congress for Progressive Change, CPC vice presidential candidate, Pastor Tunde Bakare, said clergymen like him, taking advantage of their congregations, and buying private jets, deserved to go to jail.

The CPC spokesman, Rotimi Fashakin recently said that President Goodluck Jonathan on November 10, 2012, rewarded the CAN helmsman with the gift of a Bombardier Private jet.

http://m.naij.com/news/33198.html

berem: Jonathan Did Not Buy Plane For Me, Says Oritsejafor
06.05.2013, 6:19 Local
National President of the Christian Association of Nigeria,
CAN, Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor, for the first time, publicly
dismissed criticisms that continued to trail his acquisition of
a private jet with some critics claiming that the gift may
have come from the Presidency.
The founder/senior pastor of Word of Life Bible
Church, Warri emphatically declared that
President Goodluck Jonathan did not contribute
a dime for the jet.
Receiving a delegation of Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, Delta
State chapter in his Word of Life Bible Church, Warri, last Sunday,
Pastor Oritsejafor said the private jet was presented to him on
November 10, 2012, by church members within and outside the
country in commemoration of his 40th year on the pulpit.
He maintained that over 90 per cent of the funds came from
members of the church while the rest was donated by his
spiritual children across the globe.
The NLC delegation was in the church for a thanksgiving service
in preparation for Workers' Day which held nationwide on
Wednesday.
Speaking during that service, Pastor Oritsejafor, arguably one of
the greatest philanthropists in the country and perhaps the first
CAN president to spend his personal resources to run the CAN
secretariat, maintained that concerned members of his
congregation and some of his children decided to donate the jet
in appreciation of the suffering he underwent whenever he
travelled in and out of Nigeria preaching the gospel.
"Word of Life members miss me, my family misses me greatly and
appreciating the trauma of connecting flights across the globe;
they decided to constitute a committee to raise funds for the
purchase of the jet. They reached out to some of my children in
and out of the country who generously donated to the course,"
he explained.
Oritsejafor challenged the Labour leaders to endeavour to do
their investigations and if possible use their connections in
government to ask President Jonathan if he contributed any kobo
to the purchase of the jet, noting "why will people just set out to
disparage persons without verifying their facts."
The cleric said given the nature of his work, a plane had become
a necessity, wondering why people were deliberately silent on his
annual empowerment programmes in the Niger Delta and his
numerous reach-out projects to victims of Boko Haram violence
in the North, but decided to malign his person.
"My records are there at the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria,
PFN, which I led for eight years for anybody to verify just as
people are free to come to the CAN Secretariat to make their
independent investigat-ions," he stated, adding "I pay for all my
bills as CAN president," he stated.
He also defended his call for the arrest of CPC presidential
candidate, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (rtd) whose comments
during the 2011 electioneering campaigns are believed to have
precipitated the post-election violence that followed the
announcement of results of the election.
The CAN president had come under tremendous criticism over
the plane with Catholic Bishop Matthew Hassan Kukah describing
him as an embarrassment to Christianity while former Congress
for Progressive Change, CPC vice presidential candidate, Pastor
Tunde Bakare, said clergymen like him, taking advantage of their
congregations, and buying private jets, deserved to go to jail.
The CPC spokesman, Rotimi Fashakin recently said that President
Goodluck Jonathan on November 10, 2012, rewarded the CAN
helmsman with the gift of a Bombardier Private jet.

http://m.naij.com/news/33198.html

Too many frustrated ones from the camp of ACN, APC and CPC pointing accusing fingers at the Presidency for the purchase of the JET, now the FACTS are out in BLACK and WHITE, I hope the goons in the camps of ACN, CPC and APC on Nairaland will have one or two 'POINTS' to raise as usual to counter this bold move from the Man of God What a stark irony that this thread is even coming from the staple of a die-hard fan of Buhari and hater of Jonathan, this world is indeed a strange biosphere

As much as I support freedom of personal opinion and that of the Press.

This freedom is never a liberty to smear the innocent for political gain or motion.

We need the Libel law to be implemented in this country to checkmate these ugly trends.

tomakint:
What a stark irony that this thread is even coming from the staple of a die-hard fan of Buhari and hater of Jonathan, this world is indeed a strange biosphere

Watch it Mister! or else i call eggheaders to deal with you seriously.

Those who call themselves men of God are now more concern about wordly things......dis is not what Christ thought us

Pastor no mind them jor. These niggaz have already made up ther minds to only believe the negative

berem: Watch it Mister! or else i call airhead to deal with you seriously.

Oh My God, I must have struck a chord with my poser, no wonder the 'airhead' calls you MUMMY , if what airhead is doing here is what you term 'deal with you seriously' then I can only wonder at your 'seriousness' on political issues! I wonder what you trying to portray with your thread on Jonathan probably you are out of steam in your usual e-vituperations on his personality You are free to call him (airhead) now

God said i will raise u up high over every human being and over every nation. Let these pastors ride on Jare. afterall, if they walk on bare foot with no flashy car, how are we gonna know that God is really in them. if your pastor is poor, it is the cause of your own poverty

I KNEW HIS EXCELLENCY THE PRESIDENT OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA WILL NEVER BE A PART IN BUYING A PRIVATE JET FOR ANYONE,I HAVE ALWAYS KNEW THAT FROM THE ONSET,HE IS A MAN OF INTEGRITY.

In summary.........

Bonapart: Those who call themselves men of God are now more concern about wordly things......dis is not what Christ thought us

WHAT DID CHRIST TEACH YOU?
THAT YOU SHOULD GO ABOUT HIS WORK NAKED AND HUNGRY ABI?
HYPOCRITE

Cool story

ifihearam: I KNEW HIS EXCELLENCY THE PRESIDENT OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA WILL NEVER BE A PART IN BUYING A PRIVATE JET FOR ANYONE,I HAVE ALWAYS KNEW THAT FROM THE ONSET,HE IS A MAN OF INTEGRITY.

You dey mind them (ACN, APC, CPC e-thugs) is it not a stark irony that the poster of this thread is a virulent critic of Jonathan with no justifiable reason Real yeye dey smell

Bonapart: Those who call themselves men of God are now more concern about wordly things......dis is not what Christ thought us

'Daddy' must hear this

tomakint:
Oh My God, I must have struck a chord with my poser, no wonder the 'airhead' calls you MUMMY , if what airhead is doing here is what you term 'deal with you seriously' then I can only wonder at your 'seriousness' on political issues! I wonder what you trying to portray with your thread on Jonathan probably you are out of steam in your usual e-vituperations on his personality You are free to call him (airhead) now

dude don't derail my thread! thanks.

berem: dude don't derail my thread! thanks.

...but you started it Miss

People generally take longer and make more mistakes when telling lies than telling the truth, because they are holding two conflicting answers in mind and suppressing the honest response.

You are a perfect liar sir.

SOME PEOPLE ARE JUST DAFT SHA.

cyril83: You are a perfect liar sir.

YOU ARE A GOAT

cyril83: You are a perfect liar sir.

...and you are a perfect loser

cyril83: You are a perfect liar sir.

and a smooth criminal. shame to the bling bling pastor!

He took so long to refute the story. Now only members of his church will blieve him.

why should our beloved president contribute "dime" when we have billions of "paper" foreign currency...*winks

..and whose business is that?

berem: and a smooth criminal. shame to the bling bling pastor!

MUMU

HONORARIUM DEMDEM SHOULD TAKE NOTE,ITS BTHE LIKES OF BUHARI THAT CONTRIBUTES TO TERRORISM AND NOT GEJ,A MAN WITH HIGHLY DESERVED SOCIETY,NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL RESPECTABILITY.

HONORARIUM DEMDEM SHOULD TAKE NOTE,ITS THE LIKES OF BUHARI THAT CONTRIBUTES TO TERRORISM AND NOT GEJ,A MAN WITH HIGHLY DESERVED SOCIETY,NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL RESPECTABILITY.

Hon. Kontigi:
He took so long to refute the story. Now only members of his church will blieve him.

HE HAS REFUTED IT SEVERALLY BEFORE NOW,YOU JUST HEARD ABOUT IT NOW BOI AND BESIDES WE MEN OF INTEGRITY LIKE THE PRESIDENT NEVER BELIEVED FROM THE ONSET.

fuckluv: 'Daddy' must hear this

what of mummy