*Sacked State House Chaplain: Ambode Incurs God's Wrath By Touching His Anointed*

*By Adeoba Michaels*

The embattled and outgoing Lagos State Governor, Akinwunmi Ambode is an emperor. And he is not sorry about it.

Before now, he used his office as governor to deal with many perceived foes in Lagos.

Like a wounded Lion, he pounced on his immediate predecessor, Babatunde Fashola to devour him. If not for the Lord who was on his side, Fashola would have ended in jail.

When Fashola got enthroned as 'Prime Minister' in the Buhari cabinet, Ambode got furious and devoured his friends and associates at home.

In his first week office, he sacked Fashola's sister, Yinka Fashola, 18 permanent secretaries, the vindictive governor had terminated appointment of 33 Permanent Secretaries so far.

He humiliated and sacked George Noah, LASAA MD, Folorunsho Folarin-Coker, Lara Odebunmi, Safety Commission, Foaud Oki among others .

He also frustrated many out of government. They include Ganiyu Johnson, Tunde Fowler and many others.

Ambode should have limited his arbitrary use of power to politicians and those in his cabinet but strayed into God's arena and the Lord struck him.

Governor Ambode sacked and evicted a Chaplain of the Chapel of Christ The Light, Alausa (Government House Chapel) , Rev Femi Taiwo for not anointing his wife, Bolanle first before other parishioners.

The cleric was disgraced and his belongings and family thrown out of government apartment.

It took the intervention of Nigerians especially his parishioners for the man of God to get shelter.

I read on a reputable online medium, Complete News, that the clergy was still floating one year after Ambode sacked him.( http://www.completenewsng.com/exclusive-state-house-chaplain-rev-femi-taiwo-sacked-by-ambode-still-floating-one-year-after/).

Oluremi Tinubu and Abimbola were first ladies in Lagos and heads didn't roll in the cathedral.

I have no doubt that God is avenging the wicked acts of Governor Ambode particular the harm he did to his prophet, Rev Femi Taiwo.

The governor has been committing embarrassing gaffes ever since which suggest that the Lord is against him.

He started by building needless statues that should earn him accolades but rather brought him reproach.

Lagosians fumed at the Chief Obafemi Awolowo's statue built by the governor where a cosmopolitan, dandy sage was decked in Agbada with his trademark cap and glasses to match and then a laced safety boots.

Like a man who is under an influence of a spell or forces beyond him, Governor Ambode without consultation with Lagosians and even his party leaders hiked Land Use Charge by over 400 percent!

Lawyers abandoned courts to protest to Alausa over what they tagged, Rejection Of Ambode's Satanic, Toxic Tax. That singular indiscretion dropped his ratings and turned him to a pariah.

To assuage the public anger and revolt that almost consumed his government, Ambode declared 50% discount on LUC as if tax was a telecom promo.

That means the hike will be 200 percent.

Would 200 percent tax hike be a sound decision when the country was in a recession? If not that God wanted to end the governor's reign.

While the Land Use Charge was about to mellow, the waste crisis escalated and spiralled out of control.

The governor had sacked wastes managers popularly called PSPs with over 25,000 workers and brought in an acclaimed foreign waste managers for Lagos called Visionscape.

The government guaranteed N50b bond that was raised for the so-called foreign firm to take off.

Is that not strange and worrisome? Is it the government that should stand as guarantor for 'foreign investors'?

It means if Visionscape fails, Lagos tax payers will pay the N50bn debt.

Ambode's visionscape has no vision and capacity for Lagos mega wastes. Without mincing words, Visionscape failed and collapsed when it could not handle the task.

Industry experts say Lagos would not recover and get back to a state of relative sanity in the next 10 years.

According to them, on average, Lagos generates 35,000 metric tonnes of wastes a day, if not evacuated in three days, it will accumulate to over 100,000 metric tonnes which could be as high as 2-storey building.

Despite, the hurried beckoning of PSPs to rescue the overwhelmed Visionscape, the backlogs are still warehoused in residents' compounds across the state particularly in the hinterlands.

Ambode demoralized PSP investors and operators. He was cajoing them while environment degenerated.

The governor caused the crisis not the residents or saboteurs.

Now, God Almighty has decided to humble Ambode who believed he was untouchable.

Like God did in the Bible days, he just showed Ambode that he ruled in the affairs of men and took his kingdom away from him.

The fatal end of Ambode is a lesson to every leader who is abusing grace and acting as if the day of reckoning would not come.

*Adeoba Michaels is a Public Affairs Analyst writes from Lagos*

Hmmmm... u make some sense bro

afonja makes me laugh sometimes,you will support buhari that has killed uncountless christians and men of God,including catholic priests with his foot soldiers(fulani herdsmen)but will not support,Ambode because you feel God is angry with him,but happy with buhari,simple say tinubu your Lord and master is angry with Ambode that is the reason not God anger or vengeance as you claimed

Good morning. Is it not Ambode's victory pushed drowning in lagoon slogan by the renowned Oba of Lagos (hope he's alive or oga governor also silenced him?) Do you actually choose leaders nowadays without screening? Is a pity. But please learn how to minus God from Nigeria politics; there is nothing Godly in our present day politicians. Their interest is primarily centred on money and power. Nigeria need recycling not only in Lagos but Nigeria.

Afonja christian fights afonja muslim ...great news

authehighness:
afonja makes me laugh sometimes,you will support buhari that has killed uncountless christians and men of God,including catholic priests with his foot soldiers(fulani herdsmen)but will not support,Ambode because you feel God is angry with him,but happy with buhari,simple say tinubu your Lord and master is angry with Ambode that is the reason not God anger or vengeance as you claimed

ur head is good

Useless man of god he fought

Hmmm.... This is a great investigative writeup.

I think Ambode's wife is the woman with intoxicated ego. The woman is so power drunk and her wickedness has caused a lot of people their works. Ambode is a good man that listens too much to his woman as regards governance and politics. Tinubu might be taking a right decision, regardless of the fact that he has turned Lagos to his personal property

Ambode may endorse sanwo olu to cover his shame

authehighness:
afonja makes me laugh sometimes,you will support buhari that has killed uncountless christians and men of God,including catholic priests with his foot soldiers(fulani herdsmen)but will not support,Ambode because you feel God is angry with him,but happy with buhari,simple say tinubu your Lord and master is angry with Ambode that is the reason not God anger or vengeance as you claimed

Typical flat headed fuul. Buhari was president when Fulani attacked former governor Suswam of Benue in 2012 and almost killed him? Buhari was president when they also attacked a serving senator in plateau state and he later died in the hospital?

Please don't bring God into this.

What is playing out is between a godfather and his godson. It's all about selfish interest and self serving ego.