Spokesperson for President Jonathan Ebele
Goodluck, Mr Reuben Abati, has responded to
accusations that Jonathan and members of his cabal
refused to say amen to at this weekend’s democracy
day Church Service when the preacher offered a
prayerful curse against corruption amongst public
officials.

Speaking to reporters, Mr Abati revealed aspects of
protocol that are not widely known outside
Government circles, and which would explain why

Mr President and ministers didn’t say Amen to the
prayer by Most Reverend Peter Akinola, committing
corrupt politicians to the court of God.

According to him, it is a long standing presidential
protocol that during Church or Mosque services, the President only offers a fixed number of amens or amis, as the case may be.

The Reverend had offered many prayers and
demanded many amens prior to the contentious one, Abati explained, the result of which was that the day’s quota of amens had been used up.
“Why?” asked the spokesperson, “would President
not say amen to a prayer against corruption?”
He advised preachers, pastors, imams etc, to
familiarise themselves with government protocol and to also limit the length of their prayers and sermons.

“It is the same people accusing the President of not
saying amen to anti-corruption prayer that would be accusing him of favouritism if he had broken with protocol and said more amens than is allowed by constitution,” Abati said.






www.wazobiareport.com/reports/Reuben-Abati-explains-why-The-President-didnt-say-Amen-to-Anti-Corruption-Prayer#.VKdp9Sph3nU.facebook

I laugh sote I fall inside akamu

Awon ole

We never expected him to say amen to that type of prayer because he is corruption-personified.

Rueben, na new year be this o.

As long as I don't want to believe he actually gave this as a reason, but if he actually did, then this would be the most preposterous statement I've heard in the last 5 years.

protocols ko, prototypes ni

In another news, February 15 is my birthday, and the ONLY GIFT I NEED is BUHARI.

Thanks in Advance as you vote Him in

Every sane person'll know why, we don't need explanations

Lol...thanks for bringing back this story. Fear catch all of them hahahah

This is actually funny.
But one can still say amen without uttering words.

Is this some kind of sick joke? I did not know there is a federal protocol for the number of amen or amins a federal official must say...

God or whatever being you serve is not mocked... Amen is affirming the words of a prayer and not a word that should be tangled with politics...

Is this news not recycled? I read this Jan 2014

Enoquin:
Is this news not recycled? I read this Jan 2014

Yes it's recyled,but why did'nt they say Amen?It's a mystery the Nigerians masses have been trying to figure out

Abati is a comedian

This is a good early morning joke, I can't stop laughing.
So the constitution allows the president to say a limited amen to prayers, now I believe this people thinks we are fools

Hmmmm thank you Oga Abati you should also join the likes of basket mouth as stand up comedian I can't just stop laughing... u are so great.I wonder where Jona get these type of spokesmen they are always making the public to get back at the presidency.. hmmm so pls can you tell us that section of constitution limiting the numbers of amen that the public servant can say..we never hear things like this during obj...I dey laugh...but Abati know diaris God oooo chai chai all this comment you ppu are making diaries God oooo diaris God oooo.

I laugh in Ebira

Stealing is not corruption who am I?

lekhane:
This is a good early morning joke, I can't stop laughing.
So the constitution allows the president to say a limited amen to prayers, now I believe this people thinks we are fools

Wazobia reports is a satire magazine by the way. They were making fun of the President who refused to say Amen to Rev Akinola when he placed a curse on corrupt leaders and pleaded with them to say Amen to the curse they all refused.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcLKKOgBl_o

This Abati is a foolish man for thinking we are all fools. Like seriously, who is counting the Amen they have said. Stupid Abati, Clueless Jonathan.

According to him, it is a long standing presidential
protocol that during Church or Mosque services, the President only offers a fixed number of amens or amis, as the case may be.

The Reverend had offered many prayers and
demanded many amens prior to the contentious one, Abati explained, the result of which was that the day’s quota of amens had been used up.

This parts of his explanation got me laughing

It's oryte.

He no fit say amen bcs na thief him be

Skako:
He no fit say amen bcs na thief him be

exactly!! lmao.Watch the sermon here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcLKKOgBl_o

Smh his aides keep fucking GEJ up, constitution has a number of "Amens"the president can say in church? Well, I'm expect no truth from a man who has sold his soul to the devil because of monetary gains, Abati is as bad as the devil himself.... how GEJ for even say amen sef when himself be corruption

Meanwhile, in another news Abiyamọ said GEJ should stop sharing policies in churches.
Goodluck Jonathan, Nigeria's churchiest president. The Nigerian President is one of Nigeria's major problems & I have my reasons. He is a very divisive ruler. He clearly drives a wedge amongst Nigerians using religion. In a tensed nation where we have suffered a lot from religious madness & still suffering now, it is the greatest disservice of any president to use religion as a tool of division. Jonathan has done that & he keeps doing it. A good Nigerian leader will make everyone have a sense of belonging without tilting too much to the right or left. The whole world knows that Jonathan is a Christian & no one says he should not practice his faith but in a nation that is constitutionally secular, a wise leader knows where to draw the line, afterall, his religion is his private business. What are my reasons?

-Goodluck Ebele Jonathan is not the first Nigerian Christian leader but there has been no time in Nigeria's history that this great nation has been so bitterly divided on religious lines. Many are simply supporting GEJ because he is a Christian not that he has done anything reasonable; even Jesus will not be proud of a Christian failure. I am just happy that not all Nigerians are falling for his trick. Nnamdi Azikiwe, JTU Aguiyi-Ironsi, Yakubu Gowon, Olusegun Obasanjo & Ernest Shonekan were all heads of state not one of them visited Israel. Jonathan wants us to believe that he is the only good Christian leader & he has gone to Israel (the first Nigerian head of state ever to do so, that is perfectly fine but not at the expense of national harmony) where he openly displays his love & affection for the Israeli PM & which cleric has he not taken to Israel? Is it Pappy Oritsejafor whose jet was caught in a dirty deal or Oyedepo who once handed out a dirty slap to a poor Nigerian lady? The undue noise & publicity he gives his religious trips are totally uncalled for, they are irrelevant. How many world leaders have you seen doing pilgrimage in Israel/Mecca & broadcasting it publicly to their people? And who is funding his religious visits? Is Nigeria not secular? Is it not with the taxes paid by Nigerians of all faiths? Obama is a Baptist Christian but come on. What would Nigerians say if a Muslim leader is always gallivanting in Palestine with Mahmoud Abbas? Or always off to Mecca all the time and sending photos home of him and all the sheikhs of Mecca? Wetin Nigerians go talk? That's one.

-Two, why are his advisers and assistants especially Doyin Okupe, Reno Omokri & Reuben Abati always quoting Bible verses on their social media pages while addressing Nigerians? They always write Bible verses & use them to curse enemies of the President or curry useless sympathies. What nonsense is that? How will Nigerians react if Muslim assistants of a president are always writing Quran verses on their pages? GEJ's camp has not come up with any reasonable thing to tackle the opposition but to call them Islamists. How does that make sense? Jonathan sees everything as a religious war, oh, the north does not like me, they are against me bla bla. Chibok is a Christian town, if GEJ so loves Christians that much, why are our girls still missing? What did he say in Paris during the Africa security summit? He said he was going to build stronger walls for Chibok girls school. Just imagine!

-Three, why is Jonathan always announcing government policies inside churches? Does he think he was voted into office by Christians alone? Or his only audience are Nigerian Christians? Imagine if Yar'adua was always announcing government policies at the National Mosque every Friday after prayers? Won't some Nigerians scream he is Islamizing Nigeria? As a wise leader, you pray without any noise & get out. There is virtually no church in Abuja that Oga Ade has not visited. So what is the use of the Aso Rock Chapel? He actually said that every last Sunday of the month now, he will be worshipping outside Aso Rock. Listen to him, he said: “Traditionally, we have the State House Chapel where I worship every Sunday. If we do not have the chapel, probably I would have been here one or two times before this time. This year, we have decided that from now onward, until I leave the State House, every last Sunday of the month, I will go to different churches. The reasons are very obvious, not because if I worship in the State House, I am not worshiping God. But I feel that it is good for me to go round and continue to appreciate what our brothers and sisters have been doing.” How does that create jobs? If you worship on Olumo Rock or go to Mecca, how does that strengthen the falling naira? The Catholic Church has advised him to stop his gallivanting & face his job but mba. I will elaborate on this:

Who will say amen to that prayer when you know you are part of the prayer point.

Yesterday, he was at the Dunamis International Gospel Centre, Area 1, Garki, Abuja for New Year celebrations & it was there that he was telling Nigerians that he will be rolling out an anticorruption plan and how he will defeat Boko Haram. For heaven's sake, when did you see Obama at the Washington National Cathedral explaining how his government will capture Osama? Is Jonathan the only Christian leader on earth? I am not done.

Just last week, he and his wife were at the St. Matthew's Anglican Church, Abuja for a special Christmas service. Instead of him to celebrate & go home, no, he took the mic and issued a warning to politicians over 2015 elections. Why always talk politics inside the church, is nothing sacred anymore? What if a Muslim president is talking politics inside the National Mosque every week?

In March 2013, there was national outrage. Why? It was once again about Jonathan & his churchy things. The sum of N6 billion was donated for his St. Stephen's Anglican Deanery and Youth Development Centre in Otuoke, his hometown. N6 billion naira. Prince Arthur Eze who was cursing Igbos some days ago if they don't support Jonathan donated N1.8 billion that day & Akpabio dropped N230 million on behalf of PDP governors who later said they were not aware before Akpabio donated. And where did all that money come from? State money? Personal pockets? Where did they get it from? The building itself was donated to Jonathan by Gitto Construzioni Generali Nigeria Limited, an Italian construction firm which incidentally was the same company that benefitted from Goodluck when he was Bayelsa governor. You gerrit, right?

The next month (April 2013), Jonathan was at the opening of Paul Adefarasin's N13.4 billion 9,000-capacity Rock Cathedral of House on the Rock in Lekki, Lagos. He is yet to commission a world-class hospital his government built o or even have town hall meetings with Nigerian villagers & discuss with them.

We remember when he was off to the RCCG for help, always running from pillar to post. Tunde Bakare said: “Kneeling before Adeboye was a clear campaign tactic which also diminishes the president & his office. Jonathan has signalled the the commencement of his presidential campaign by going to kneel down before Pastor Adeboye. See, I am not saying that pastors should not pray for the president but Jonathan is a symbol of an institution known as the presidency. He cheapened the institution by prostrating before a man of God because of perceived political advantage he thinks he can get. By going to kneel down in the open before the pastor, the man (Jonathan) did not even recognise the dignity of his office. If it were a private thing, it is okay for you to crawl or kneel but it is a whole nation. That office has been diminished by a man who does not know the worth of it and does not deserve to stay there for one more day”

He has gone to so many churches that many Nigerians actually don't know Jonathan's denomination. He has been to Living Faith Church of Pastor Abioye. Cathedral Church of the Advent, Life Camp nko? He has been there too.

I know some sentimental people will take this as an anti-Christianity thing but intelligent Nigerians all of faiths will get my drift and will be worried by Jonathan's churchy trends. When Eze donated almost N2 billion that time to Jonathan's home church, Chief Ayo Adebanjo said, “This type of uncaring attitude is now synonymous with these people. It goes a long way to show their brazen display of nonchalance towards how the people feel. How can you explain the fact that a single individual donated nearly N2 billion? It is unimaginable. Before such a person will cough out that much, he must have benefitted about ten times of that from the system either by award of contract, oil blocks or even undue waivers. I just hope they will stop this because it has a way of infuriating the people. I’m a Christian but I believe Christians too should be above board.”

Attending churches, mosques or Okija shrine is not tantamount to competence. Chinese leaders don't even go to church but we see their progress. We think we are religious but we are just deceiving ourselves. What has come of his visit to TB Joshua's collapsed church? And you just watch to see how Jonathan will keep displaying his incompetence & utter discombobulation, as elections get closer, he will visit more & more churches & he will continue to be milked by streetwise clerics. I don't have to mention their names. You all know them, they keep deceiving him to feather their own nests. Looting & praying, who are we deceiving? I have said my mind.

Kai, Rev Akinola "The Exorcist"

Bling bling pastor.."The Godfather"

So protocol forbids casting demons?

Abati has crossed the line of foolishnes,he is now a parasite-imagine what this monkey is saying,how long shall we tolerate this madness?

Abati you are the biggest id-iot on earth.

I watched the whole clip. For those wanting to know.Start watching from the 20 minute mark in the video till the 24th minute to see when the incidence took place

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcLKKOgBl_o

This is a joke..

These crooks have even looted our "Amen"

GEj,God is watching you.

Yomieluv:
This is a joke..

These crooks have even looted our "Amen"

GEj,God is watching you.

lmao

"stealing is not corruption"
"the body language encourage coorruption"