Ruffled by the momentum generated
by the nomination of Pastor Yemi
Osinbajo as General Mohamadu
Buhari's running mate, President
Goodluck Jonathan is asking a group
of Pentecostal pastors to help him
avert what he fears could be an
impending loss in next month's
presidential polls.
Bishop David Oyedepo led the
Pentecostal pastors to the
meeting with President Goodluck
Jonathan
Osinbajo, a prominent cleric with the
Redeemed Christian Church of God,
law professor and Senior Advocate of
Nigeria, SAN emerged APC's
presidential running mate last month
giving President Jonathan and the
ruling party, PDP, what is being
described as sleepless nights, by
sources.
Specifically last Thursday, the
President held a meeting in Abuja, with
a number of Pentecostal pastors led by
Bishop David Oyedepo of Winners
Chapel, with the main agenda being
how to fashion out ways to solve the
"Osinbajo" problem.
Sources at the meeting confirmed that
President Jonathan confessed in a
rather rattled and humbling manner
that "Osinbajo is my problem."
According to those at the meeting, the
President added that "everything was
okay until APC picked Osinbajo."
This is coming against the background
of wild speculations that APC is an
Islamist party and that General Buhari
is a religious fundamentalist-which
has become one of the main planks of
the PDP presidential campaign. While
PDP chieftains and supporters have
continued to characterize APC as an
Islamist party, APC leaders have
consistently dismissed such as
unfounded, baseless and a scare
tactic by the PDP.
Many observers say the nomination of
a prominent Pentecostal pastor from
the fastest growing church in Africa by
the APC may have effectively doused
such speculations and the attempt to
label the party as one with an
islamization agenda.
There has been a rather conscious
attempt to make next month's
presidential polls a religious one
especially in the Southern part of the
country where there is a much larger
Christian population, observers say.
At the meeting organized by
the Executive Secretary of the National
Christian Pilgrims Commission (NCPC)
John Kennedy Okpara, President
Jonathan poured out his mind that
running against a leading Pastor of the
RCCG, who is also known to be very
close to the much reverred General
Overseer of the church, Pastor E.A.
Adeboye, is an uphill task.
Sources at the meeting, said Jonathan
was ruffled and much distracted as he
confessed to the challenge to him, of
the APC naming such a person as
Osinbajo as General Buhari's running
mate.
In response, the Pastors led by Bishop
Oyedepo assured the President at the
meeting that they would, "starting from
today," use every device possible
including social media, the pulpit and
influence peddling, to campaign in
support of President Jonathan and
against the Buhari-Osinbajo ticket.
Before the meeting with the President,
sources said the pastors held a
meeting on the same day to strategize
and agree on how and what they
would present to the president.
At that pre-meeting, some Pentecostal
pastors suggested that they use the
opportunity of the meeting afforded by
the President to express their genuine
fears on growing insecurity in the
North with Boko Haram killing and
attacking Christians and other
innocent Nigerians.
But Bishop David Oyedepo, the most
influential pastor at the meeting
interrupted the idea, insisting that the
meeting was to encourage and
strengthen President Jonathan ahead
of the elections and not to discuss
compelling national issues of concern
to majority of Nigerians.
While some of the pastors were
shocked and disappointed that Bishop
Oyedepo would not allow them to
raise important issues bothering most
Nigerians, they decided to keep silent
not to be seen as spoilsports.
And later after meeting the president,
the pastors gathered together again
on the same day to device strategies
they will use to campaign against
Buhari/Osinbajo, with the main
scheme being to label the ticket as an
Islamist one.
Some of the pastors also suggested
that they can influence Christians that
the position of Vice President is not an
effective one, and that having a
Christian hold it makes no difference,
although the Nigerian constitution and
the order of precedence makes the
office the next in rank to the president.
Indeed as if carrying out the resolve,
members of the Winners Chapel said
Bishop Oyedepo has already started
using the pulpit to achieve the goals
set out at last Thursday meeting in
Abuja.
Some of the members said
yesterday Sunday January 18, Bishop
Oyedepo raised a prayer point that an
Islamist would not become the
President of Nigeria in the polls
coming next month to the chagrin of
many of the church attendants on
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