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Fallout Of Secret Meeting With
Pentecostal Pastors: "Osinbajo Is
Adeboye's Loyal Son", PDP
Strategists Tell President
Jonathan *Oyedepo in trouble with Obasanjo
over support of incumbent President
*How RCCG leader advised Jonathan,
not to run for a second term. BY EMPOWERED NEWSWIRE, LAGOS
JAN 21, 2015 15 4
0 After last week Thursday's Abuja
meeting with President Goodluck
Jonathan with some Pentecostal
pastors including Bishops David
Oyedepo of Winners Chapel and Felix
Omobude, the PFN president, PDP political strategists are unconvinced
how much the pastors can truly
deliver on their promises to help the
President. Pastor Adeboye Pastor EA Adeboye It would be recalled that at the secret
meeting in Abuja, President Jonathan
confessed, "Osinbajo is my problem."
According to those at the meeting,
the President added, "everything was
okay until APC picked Osinbajo." It is believed that this conclusion was
reached by the President after
extensive discussions with his
political advisers and strategists on
the APC's choice of the law professor
- pastor of the RCCG as General Muhamadu Buhari's running mate. A source at the meeting said while
offers of oil blocks are being made to
some of the top pastors at the
meeting, PDP strategists are warning
the president that General
Muhamadu Buhari's running mate, Pastor Yemi Osinbajo is not just a
senior pastor trained by the General
Overseer of the RCCG, Pastor E.A.
Adeboye, but a beloved spiritual son
of the highly respected religious
leader. The concern of the PDP strategists is
that their promises to support
Jonathan's second term ambition may
not after all hold much water. Said another source, "Adeboye values
loyalty and Osinbajo is widely known
to be very loyal to the General
Overseer of the RCCG." President Jonathan's political
strategists are believed to be looking
for means to break that bond, but the
General Overseer has simply refused
to allow himself to be so politically
encumbered. A source said, for instance, that
Adeboye did not attend the meeting
last Thursday as he has said he would
be apolitical since there are
members of the church in both APC
and PDP. But PDP strategists say coming from the same Pastor who
publicly blessed Jonathan before the
2011 election, that was a sign things
have changed. Perhaps not sure of the kind of
reception, Jonathan himself had last
month stayed away from the
December 2014 Holy Ghost
Congress, the same event in 2010
where "Daddy G.O" , as he is fondly called by RCCG members, had
publicly blessed him. Only a minister
from his government, Dr. Tammy
Wenike Danagogo, Sports Minister
was in attendance and being an
RCCG member, the minister was not introduced as representing Jonathan
at the event. One of the very close pastors to the
RCCG leader said Jonathan's absence
from that event " was a mistake on
the president's part." Some PDP members also point to the
public appearance of Pastor Adeboye
with General Buhari at the New Year
thanksgiving service of Lagos State
as proof that Adeboye will not
abandon his spiritual children whenever they need him. The PDP
strategists are also reminding
President Jonathan that Adeboye
okayed it that Osinbajo should accept
the offer of a running mate from
General Buhari even before it was eventually decided and announced by
General Buhari. An RCCG inside source said "Pastor
Adeboye is known to have helped
some of his pastors and spiritual sons
even when they err and fall into
troubles, why then do you think, he
will not do everything to help his loyal pastor who is being promoted in
answer to his prayers." The source said in training many of
his pastors several years back,
Pastor Adeboye had always given
them his word that he would
personally be there for them in their
hour of need, a promise he has endured to fulfill even under very
challenging circumstances.
There is therefore an acute confusion
among PDP Campaign leaders, and
the president's advisers on the
effectiveness of the secret meeting
held last week with the pastors,
especially after SAHARAREPORTERS broke the story, and exposing the
division among the pastors who
attended. Now, President Jonathan is being
advised to do more, possibly to reach
out directly to the General Overseer
for a more public outing with him as
the elections draw near. For instance,
they cited the impact of Pastor Adeboye's presence a the President's
adopted daughter's wedding
ceremony earlier this January 2015 in
Abuja. It is believed that after his
public appearance with General
Buhari earlier in January at the annual thanksgiving service,
Adeboye's visit to the wedding in the
president's family restored some
hope of his "neutrality." However inside sources at the RCCG
say Pastor Adeboye is not very
particularly enamoured of President
Jonathan because as the source
disclosed "the president has not been
as obedient to Pastor Adeboye as one would expect." For instance, the source said
Adeboye had asked Jonathan, not to
run for a second term, and instead
choose to support someone else, but
Jonathan said ok, but still went ahead
to run. This happened even before Osinbajo's name was mentioned as a
serious potential running mate. Others say Adeboye's close
relationship with Obasanjo, is another
reason he could not possibly support
the president the way he did in 2011. On the other hand, there are those
on the APC side who think that Pastor
Adeboye should do more, now that a
very senior pastor he personally
loves and counsels is on the
presidential ticket, a first in the history of RCCG, the fastest growing
church in Africa. APC members also discount Pastor
Adeboye's attendance at the recent
Jonathan 's daughter's wedding in
Abuja, saying even former President
Olusegun Obasanjo was there. Meanwhile, Bishop David Oyedepo
may have run into trouble with
former President Olusegun Obasanjo
over his role in the secret meeting
with other PFN pastors in Abuja last
week. A source revealed after the news of
the meeting became public
knowledge that it was Obasanjo who
had saved Oyedepo's neck when he
ran foul of the law in Ogun State and
the APC Governor Ibikunle Amosun's government was perfecting his arrest
and prosecution. Bishop Oyedepo's aides had assaulted
some state government staff who
were on visitation to one of the
schools owned by the Bishop for
assessment. It was alleged that it was
Oyedepo who ordered the assault on the officials, provoking the
government to threaten legal and
criminal charges against him. In the circumstances, Oyedepo
reportedly ran to Obasanjo, who then
asked him to come over right away
to his residence, where the former
president also invited Governor
Amosun to amicably resolve the matter. A source said Obasanjo may have
been disappointed that despite
Oyedepo's personal knowledge of his
disavowal of Jonathan, the Bishop
was still working hard to support his
second term ambition.

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I WONDER HOW OLD ARE YOU.
TRY ANOTHER AND KEEP PLACING CURSE UPON YOURSELF AND YOUR NEXT GENERATIONS TO COME.

Mumu fooling mumu... Apc, the assembly of mumu... GEJ till 2019!!!

SMH pastors being bribed with oil blocks! Surely na hell fire remain trust no man of God

temitemi1:
Mumu fooling mumu... Apc, the assembly of mumu... GEJ till 2019!!!

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Well, I hate comparison, but Pastor Kumuyi of Deeper Life Bible Church and Olukoya Of MFM can Never be mentioned in things like this.

masterpower:
OP, YOU MUST BE RUSHED TO YABA LEFT.
I WONDER HOW OLD ARE YOU.
TRY ANOTHER AND KEEP PLACING CURSE UPON YOURSELF AND YOUR NEXT GENERATIONS TO COME.

the truth is very bitter, but u need to chew it or be consumed by stupidity till ur death

temitemi1:
Mumu fooling mumu... Apc, the assembly of mumu... GEJ till 2019!!!

na only mumu dey see mumu

Nigerians need the wisdom of Solomon in making their choice of a presidential candidate, Do not make your choice on the basis of religious or tribal sentiments on feb. 2015, and start complaining about leaders thereafter. dont be deceived by the words of any GO, who flies private jet, and can afford the power his home 24hours with Generating set, why you sleep in darkness, and barely afford transportation money to their church. All those pastors manipulating Nigerians /church members for their personal bigotry and pesonal gains, God will shame them in 2015.