The Founder/Spiritual Head of Inri Evangelical Church Lagos, Primate Elijah Ayodele, spoke with Adetutu
Audu, on the forthcoming elections, among sundry issues. Excerpts:
What should Nigerians be looking forward to in 2015?
2015 is a year that Nigerians are expecting so many things. Many people have been saying that Nigeria will
breakup but I can tell you that Nigeria will not breakup in 2015.
Nigeria will still remain a as, country in 2015 but we need a lot of prayers against bloodbath. We need
prayers for God to protect the country especially in the political scene because so many unexpected things
will happen.
Politically, what do you foresee?
Nigerian politics still needs a lot of prayers. We need to be prayerful to avert many politicians getting
involved in accidents.
The election will not breakup Nigeria. There will be partial peace in some places while there will be no peace
in some places. I don’t see Nigeria remaining a single nation in the next 30 years. Jonathan will be the last
PDP’s president.
I see a new government coming up in this country. If Jonathan eventually wins in 2015, PDP will not have it
in 2019. The party will break.
I don’t see APC capturing Abia State. If APGA works hard it will capture Abia, albeit I see rigging in the
state. Rivers is another state we need to pray hard about so that there will be no stealing of ballot papers
and there will be no killing. APC will want to retain the state and PDP too will not want to give up. These
are the things we need to pray about for God to take total control. APC and PDP will share the northern part
of the country.
Buhari should not be overwhelmed because the PDP will go with their foot soldiers to make sure that they
get some. If the APC is not careful, PDP will take part of the south west from them. Let us pray that APC
will not lose any of its BOT members and also in PDP.
A top APC leader, Obasanjo and Edwin Clark are playing their last politics. Some of them would be
disappointed. We should pray so that there would not be crisis in the judiciary in Lagos, Rivers, Kano and
Kaduna in particular.
There is going to be a change in our constitution as well. They will try to implement some of the things in
the constitution and in the process there would be arguments. There would be a lot of discussion on our
constitution after the elections.
Insecurity has been a serious challenge. Would this abate in 2015?
Jonathan must handle the issue of security very well because terrorism has come to stay in the country.
Even if another government comes in today, it will not be able to fight Boko
Haram. Boko Haram will be targeting markets, motor parks and will abduct more children. We have Al
Qaeda, ISIS teaming up with Boko Haram in the country right away.
We would need a lot of prayers to manage it. It is going to take the government a longer time to defeat
Boko Haram. We also need to be very careful because I see explosions in many places, bomb blasts. Even in
the South West here, we need to be very careful.
We also need to pray against tanker explosion. We are going to have ocean surge and also sea pirates with
the federal government calling for assistance on this. Kidnapping will be on the increase and another wave of
criminality will evolve. The police will try their best but there will be changes in our security network, namely
the army, the Navy the Customs, the Immigration and the Prisons.
We should pray that there should not be a jail break. Journalists must be watchful. The NUJ in particular
must be watchful because politics will tear the body apart. Some banks will face crisis. Let us pray against
the death of any journalist in the year. Let us pray that we don’t lose any emir and prominent Oba in the
southwest.
A traditional ruler will be dethroned in the east. We should also pray that the country does not run into debt.
We must pray hard against ship capsize.
There are fears that the fall in oil price may spell doom for the country in 2015. What is your take on this?
I have not seen anything fantastic happening to our economy. Very soon, it will affect the rich too. I foresee
a lot of problems in the CBN. There would re-organisation, re-shuffling and formation of policies that may
not work for some commercial banks.
CBN will get it wrong in some areas and some banks will lay off some of their staff. Some communication
companies will also lay off some of their staff. The prices of food stuff will go up. The prices of fish will go
up.
I see shares doing fine in the early parts of the year. I have not seen anything fantastic happening to
unemployment. The prices of petroleum will go up. Let us pray against pipeline explosion and breakdown.
There is going to be a lot of crisis in the NNPC and there would be new refinery. Some of the oil we are
having will dry up.
In the next 15 years, our oil may not be as rich as it has always been. Some states will break down
economically in 2018 and 2019 because of debt. We need to pray hard so that 20 of all the states that we
have do not break down economically. Our foreign reserve will experience crisis. I have not really seen
anything cheering about it.
What other issues should the people look up to in the year?
Let us pray very well that no calamity happens in the aviation sector because it is possible that we are
going to witness air crash. Nigeria Air Force will lose their plane through crash.
Let us pray as well so that we do not see death in the army. I want to beg the president to pardon these 54
soldiers that have been sentenced to death. There is so much blood that is crying and the land is not at
peace. If the President allows them to be killed, it will affect the progress of this country.
He can dismiss them or punish them in another form instead of killing them. Boko Haram will want to
attack the barracks and let us pray against any police headquarters being engulfed by fire. thenationonlineng.net/new/jonathan-will-pdps-last-president/

Jonathan will be the last pdp president in 2019 abi? After which Apga Can take over abi?

what can we call this. GEJ will win. Yoruba are many on the nairaland so it make it look like GEJ dont hv supporter. NC , SS and SE are for GEJ.