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Attempts by Bishop David Oyedepo of the Winners
Chapel, Ota, Ogun State, southwest Nigeria, to make
members of his congregation pray for President
Goodluck Jonathan to win the 14 February
Presidential election backfired on Sunday when some
members refused to stand up from their seats to pray
for Jonathan.
Bishop Oyedepo had asked members to stand up to
pray for Jonathan who came to the church for prayers
to win the election, but some members of the
congregation who were not happy with Jonathan’s
performance refused to stand up. They remained
seated and refused to pray for Jonathan.
This did not however stop the prosperity preacher
from praying for Jonathan.
Worshippers and clergymen got more than they
expected with the visit of President Goodluck
Jonathan to the headquarters of the church, located
in Ota, Ogun State, western Nigeria on Sunday, when
the church was hit with condemnations and criticisms
from Nigerians.
President Jonathan, with some of his aides, the Chief
of Staff to the President, Jones Arogbofa and the
Executive Secretary, Christian Pilgrim Board, Mr.
Kennedy Okpara, worshipped at the church during its
third service after they arrived the church premises in
a helicopter.
A few minutes after his departure, however, the
internet went buzzing with the news of his visit as
bloggers latched on to whatever they could gather.
Many of them ended up misquoting and misinforming
the public thus resulting in the outrage that greeted
the President’s visit.
Nigerians were provoked by the statement falsely
credited to the General Overseer of the church, Bishop
David Oyedepo, saying he would open the gates of
hell upon anyone who opposed Jonathan’s re-
election.
Some of the bloggers even claimed that he warned his
church members against voting for the candidate of
the All Progressives Congress, APC, Muhammadu
Buhari, and that anyone who went against this
remains a candidate of hell.
The bloggers’ false interpretation of Oyedepo’s
admonition irked Nigerians who saw this as an affront
on their mentality and wondered if Oyedepo was God
or if he actually had the keys to hell.
While some Nigerians said they were shocked that
Oyedepo could make such a comment, others went
comic calling him a man of “small gods.”
Unfortunately, however, many of these bloggers and
news writers were not in the church during the
President’s visit, but they all attributed their news to
sources within the church.
Our correspondent who attended the third service of
the church which was also attended by the President,
his aides and politicians in the Peoples Democratic
Party, PDP, from Lagos and Ogun states, reports that
the drama however began from the church.
Before his preaching during the service, Bishop
Oyedepo had given President Jonathan the
opportunity to address the congregation.
Spending very few minutes, Jonathan, who said he did
not want to say much so that Nigerians would not
think he only attended the church to campaign, urged
the members to pray for the country ahead of the
general elections.
He said his call for prayers was necessitated by the
various predictions by leaders and clergymen about
the elections and their outcome.
“There are various predictions concerning the election,
but I trust God to take control of the situation,”
Jonathan said.
He also commended Bishop Oyedepo for his
commitment to God’s work and to education, adding
that only through education of its citizens would a
country develop and progress.
“I commend Bishop Oyedepo for his commitment to
the work of God and education, without education we
can’t achieve much,” he added.
While some of the church members were excited to see
Jonathan, others grumbled, saying he had suddenly
turned to the Winners Chapel after he discovered that
he is no longer welcomed at the Redeemed Christian
Church of God since a senior pastor of the church,
Prof Yemi Osinbajo, is now the running mate to Buhari
who is contesting against Jonathan in the election.
Some also whispered that the pastors in the country
were not helping matters as they are not acting like
prophets and leaders in the Bible who spoke truth to
people in power.
After his speech, the Bishop asked that the church
members stand up and pray for the President.
He asked that since God always answered prayers of
the church members, they should pray for God to give
the President the wisdom and strength to rule the
country and the unusual grace to lead the nation.
Our correspondent noted that while many stood up
and prayed fervently, some sat down, while some used
the opportunity to pray for themselves.


http://www.pmnewsnigeria.com/2015/01/26/oyedepos-church-divided-over-prayer-for-gej/

http://saharareporters.com/2015/01/27/bishop-oyedepos-church-divided-over-prayer-president-jonathan

EUROBOMBER:

why ur teeth not funny at all

Is it the religious bigot and Islamic fundamentalist,
Muhammadu Okechukwu Buhari that Summons the chief
Imams?
Remember, Muhammadu Buhari's last pilgrimage to Mecca
was 12 years ago. On the other hand, Jonathan invariably
lives and dines with Pastors every minute and often 'sleeps'
in their houses- all in the bid to win the so called Christian
votes, despite obvious failure of Him and his party for 16
years.
It is only RIGHT when a Christian politician associates with
his Pastors, but very WRONG when a Moslem politician
associates with his Imams.
It is also on record, that outside the usual islam prayers,
Okechukwu Buhari has not been known or seen fraternising
with Imams at every nook and cranny of Nigeria. But
ironically, he is the bigot and fundamentalist of all times. -
Hypocrisy of the Jonathanians!

don't like comment when am not on the first page

Facing the prospects of a resounding loss of the
presidency in three weeks, President Goodluck
Jonathan at the weekend summoned Christian
leaders to a meeting on Monday at the National
Ecumenical Centre in Abuja.
At the event, which comes after several of the Christian
leaders publicly turned their backs on his campaign,
sources say Jonathan will ask them what he can do
differently to earn their support.
A series of reports from the field reportedly shows that
Vice-Presidential candidate of the All Progressives
Congress, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, to be making progress
with a lot of religious leaders, especially in the North.
Several of the delegates that have arrived in Abuja
said they were invited by a variety of bodies, including
the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), which is
headed by President Jonathan’s friend, Pastor Ayo
Oritsejafor.



http://saharareporters.com/2015/01/25/jonathan-summons-christian-leaders-abuja

Suzyky4u:
God's creation is disgusting? Check your life!

just leave him

sexy indeed

just thinking.......... if Fayose is the president of
this country and Fani Kayode is the VP,Omisore
the Senate President,Buruji Kashamu the Speaker
of the house of Rep,while Doyin Okupe is the
information minister?? how willthe situations of
this country look like?

Saudi Arabia ’s King Abdullah died and has been
succeeded by Prince Salman, state-run Saudi media
reported, citing the royal court.
The king, who was born in 1924, died at 1 a.m. local time,
the press agency said. He was admitted to hospital on
Dec. 31 and was later diagnosed with pneumonia. Prince
Muqrin has been named Crown Prince.


http://mobile.bloomberg.com/news/2015-01-22/saudi-arabia-s-king-abdullah-is-dead-prince-salman-named-king.html

I need one also bro

.

in case.

arewatech:
CHANGE

funny u

WE NIGERIANS MUST VOTE RIGHTLY THIS 2015
BECAUSE
If SOMEONE is
J= Just
O= On
N= Negative
A= Assignments
T= To
H= Harm
A=All
N= Nigerians
THEN we must also find someone who will
B= Bring
U= Us
H= Hope
A= And
R= Remove
I= Incompetence
Come 2015 ......I SUPPORT CHANGES IN
2015.....

Yeske2:
GEJ don suffer

A plot plzz

WE NIGERIANS MUST VOTE RIGHTLY THIS 2015
BECAUSE
If SOMEONE is
J= Just
O= On
N= Negative
A= Assignments
T= To
H= Harm
A=All
N= Nigerians
THEN we must also find someone who will
B= Bring
U= Us
H= Hope
A= And
R= Remove
I= Incompetence
Come 2015 ......I SUPPORT CHANGES IN
2015.....

WE NIGERIANS MUST VOTE RIGHTLY THIS 2015
BECAUSE
If SOMEONE is
J= Just
O= On
N= Negative
A= Assignments
T= To
H= Harm
A=All
N= Nigerians
THEN we must also find someone who will
B= Bring
U= Us
H= Hope
A= And
R= Remove
I= Incompetence
Come 2015 ......I SUPPORT CHANGES IN
2015.....

hmmmm

Buhari's documents are now fully verified, HAS ANYBODY
MIND TO ASK THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS ABOUT
JONATHAN'S PHD?:
Where is Jonathan's PhD dissertation?
Who was his supervisor?
Was his PhD by research, course work or both?
Who are the peer review committee members that looked at
his dissertation?
How many academic articles has he published.
In which journal(s)?
How many academic papers has he ever presented?
At which conference(s)?
VERIFICATION MODE FULLY ACTIVATED!!!
Let these questions be responded to....

GMB till 2023

tonididdy:
who cares

Ohh so mistaking open post abii...

Okaka27:
Mumu list

Were Ba3, Ram, ppi?, Processing speed, plastic and metallic finishing for the cover, ??

u don't need this bro.... u sabi dey angry bcuz ur post dey inside abii.

No time bro



already addicted to tecno

dulaman:
hearted

in case... just a plot of land

clevvermind:
more time to correct the mess in the past.

Funny u... its already late.. Nigeria are yawning for Change.... u also can feel the wind of change blowing around....


Sai Buhari
Sai One Nigeria

clevvermind:
Believe Jonathan. he can do it. vote for progress. let's give Jonathan more time.

More time to ruin Nigerian live again

real joker

President Goodluck Jonathan said on
Monday that his successor would not have
any difficulty fighting corruption because
of the technology his administration is
putting in place to fight the menace.
Addressing party supporters at the
Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, campaign
rally in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, Mr.
Jonathan, who is the presidential
candidate of the party, promised to end
corruption in Nigeria, if given the
mandate to run the country for another
four years.
“I promise you if you vote for me and I
come back and serve this country in the
next four years, the next persons that will
become the president of this country will
not talk about corruption because we are
working on technology and we will use
technology to block all these areas through
which people are corruptly enriching
themselves,” he said.
Mr. Jonathan, who has severally accused
of condoning corruption, added: “Today
we are talking about IT. We are no longer
in the analogue generation. So we want to
deploy IT to solve problems and I tell you
in the next five years nobody will harass
the next president for not fighting
corruption because I will solve the
problem of corruption in this country.”
The presidential candidate of the All
Progressive Congress, APC, Muhammadu
Buhari, had promised during one of his
campaign rallies last week that he would
jail corrupt leaders.
However, Mr. Jonathan, who assured of
his commitment to stamp out corruption,
said he would not do so by sending
corrupt Nigerians to jail.
He said his administration has prosecuted
more people than any past administration
in the country.
He said, “But let me assure Nigerians
about my commitment and my method of solving the
problem of corruption or fighting is not the number of
people I tried and jailed.
“In terms of people I tried and jailed, maybe I will give you
the statistics on my subsequent outing because I have
asked them to give me the comprehensive statistics.
“We have tried more Nigerians. More Nigerians have been
jailed within this period, but we followed due process. But
I used to tell people that even if I tried 10 million
Nigerians and jailed five million Nigerians for corruption, I
have not solved the corruption problem.
“For you to stop corruption, you must use modern
technology to prevent people from stealing. And that is
what we are working on. The oil industry is a good area.
We are working very hard. I don’t just want to say certain
things. All these people have so much money that they will
do everything to stop us.”
Mr. Jonathan criticised Mr. Buhari for promising to abolish
the office of the First lady if he was elected.
The president said he would not do so because the office
and other women associations are used as a channel to
empower the country’s women.
He said, “They said they are going to ban the office of the
first lady, they are going to ban the office of the governors’
wives, they are going to ban the office of local government
chairman, they are going to ban the Defence officers
wives, army officers wives association, naval officers wives
association, police officers wives association.
“But me, having served as deputy governor, governor, vice
president and president, I can tell you that these offices
are helping us to mobilize our women. And these offices
are encouraged to set up NGOs. They money they spend
does not come from government budget. They run NGOs.
“Nigeria had a lot of philanthropists. They want spend
money and they use some of these channels to empower
our women. You don’t have to turn them to baby factory
alone.
“I promise the Nigeria that if we open international
magazines parading women I want to see Nigerian women
in those magazines. The Nigerian women on their own
have struggled to reach the highest positions in their
country. I am making deliberate effort to try to put you on
the international limelight. That is what I am doing. I don’t
believe that you are designed to pound yam for me.
“I don’t think your duty is merely to procreate. But you
cannot be a baby factory manufacturing children and doing
nothing because my conviction is that as a biologist, the
brain God gave men and women equally. Physically men
are more endowed but both men and women and equally
endowed in brain.
Mr. Jonathan said he had always believed that “any human
population that does not give equal opportunity to women
you are not exploiting 50% of their brains.”
He added, “For me we must exploit 50% of their brains for
the purpose of developing this country. That is why you
see so many women holding top offices in my cabinet and
we will encourage them the more. I don’t believe women
should not be given top positions. If that is the belief of
others so be it. A vote in 2015 is a vote to liberate them or
imprisoned them to the kitchen.”
Mr. Jonathan paid tribute to some Yoruba leaders,
including the first Premier of Western Region, Obafemi
Awolowo, the late Chairman of the defunct National Party
of Nigeria, NPN, Adisa Akinloye, a former governor of Oyo
State, Lam Adesina, a former Minister of Justice, Richard
Akinjide and the late Lamidi Adedibu, all of who he
described as “great men who have led the country and are
still leading.”
He added that “We want to model our leadership after
them because they achieved greatness.”
Mr. Jonathan described Ibadan as the political
headquarters of the South West just as he paid tribute to
the people of the region.
According to him, it was the people of the region that
encouraged him to convoke the 2014 National conference.
“Ibadan is a leading light to all parts of this country. South
West has played great in education. The south west
encouraged me to start the National Dialogue. I have to
give that accolade to the South West. You donated one of
yours who was the pioneer to set the agenda.



http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/top-news/174816-ill-rid-nigeria-corruption-given-another-chance-jonathan.html

Peoples Democratic Party (PDP ) leader and
frontline grassroots mobiliser in Lagos , Ibrahim
Odofin , has joined the All Progressives Congress
( APC ).
The President of Ojomu Youth Forum and a former
PDP chairmanship candidate in Eti- Osa Local
Government urged the people to vote for the APC
presidential candidate, Gen . Muhammadu Buhari .
Odofin , who runs a security company on Lagos
Island , urged voters to reject the ruling party
because the PDP - led government “ is anti -masses
and selfish. ”
He announced his membership of APC at a
meeting with the leaders of ethnic groups in Eti-
Osa as well as commercial motorcycle and
tricycle operators.
Odofin said he moved to the APC having realised
the good plans it has for the people.
According to him , it is clear that the PDP -
government has demonstrated its lack of ideas on
how to move the country forward by failing to
address power , corruption, infrastructure, and
insecurity problems.
“ Now is the time for people to really embrace
change in the interest of the nation . I stand here
before you today to tell you that I’m no longer a
member of the PDP . I have left them because they
don ’t have any good plan for the country.
“ Vote for all the APC candidates; vote for
Akinwunmi Ambode as governor and all our
members of House of Assembly and the National
Assembly . We are all tired of the PDP and we
must send them out with our votes .”


http://thenationonlineng.net/new/lagos-pdp-mobiliser-joins-apc/

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has condemned
Tuesday’s attack on President Goodluck Jonathan’s
convoy by suspected thugs in Katsina. The ruling party
has blamed the opposition All Progressives Congress
(APC) and its presidential candidate, Gen. Muhammadu
Buhari, for the attack, which took place during the
President’s campaign rally in Katsina. A statement on
Wednesday by ...
The post PDP condemns mob attack on Jonathan
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http://thenationonlineng.net/new/pdp-condemns-mob-attack-jonathan/

The Peoples Democratic Party Presidential
Campaign Organisation, PDP, has
distanced itself from a newspaper advert
sponsored by Governor Ayo Fayose of
Ekiti State, suggesting the All Progressives
Congress, APC, candidate, Muhammadu
Buhari, will die in office if voted
president.
In the advert published by Punch, Mr.
Fayose compared Mr. Buhari to past heads
of state and president who died in office.
He urged Nigerians to choose President
Goodluck Jonathan as life against Mr.
Buhari, whom he said represents death.
The publication sparked outrage Monday,
will calls on Mr. Jonathan and the PDP to
denounce the governor’s action.
On Tuesday, the media director for Mr.
Jonathan’s campaign team, Femi Fani-
Kayode, told journalists in Abuja that the
governor’s position did not represent the
opinion of Mr. Jonathan or the campaign
organisation.
“Governor Ayo Fayose is a distinguished
leader of our party. A democratically-
elected governor and someone we have
immense respect and affection for and he
released this advert in his own name.
That represents his own personal opinion
which he is entitled to.
“What I can tell you on our part as the
Presidential campaign organisation is that
it does not represents the opinion of the
Presidential Campaign Organisation or
indeed the President, it is his opinion,
which he is entitled to and he is
somebody that we have immense respect
for, he is a leading member of the party, I
have spoken with him and we respect
him.
“But for anybody to suggest that this is
the position of the presidential campaign
organisation or President Goodluck
Jonathan, that will be most unfair,” Mr.
Fani-Kayode said.
He added: “If we wanted to say something
like that we will say it without any kind of apology but of
course, we will never say that because we believe in the
sanctity of life. Age is not a function of how long you will
live.
“It is important that we recognise the fact that age is not
an indication of how long somebody will live. We believe
strongly that we must continue to show immense respect to
the person of General Buhari,” he said.
Mr. Fani-Kayode said the party will however continue to
raise questions on the issue of Mr. Buhari’s health,
insisting, “We believe it is important to always raise
question about facts, you know what these questions are
and we will continue to raise them.”
According to him, “We do not wish him ill, we do not wish
him dead, we wish him long life and we believe strongly
that such sentiment can be aired by individuals certainly
not in our name.
“Fayose never said that he was speaking on behalf of
President Goodluck Jonathan but for his own self and he
said that he issued it in his name. And I have emphasised
that, that is his opinion and he is entitled to it.
“I could only disown if a statement was purportedly made
on our behalf and in fairness to him, he never said that,
what is important is to emphasise that fact that his
position does not represent our position on this. He is
entitled to that position, he is a leading member of our
party. We have immense respect for Fayose just as we have
immense respect for General Buhari and we will not allow
anybody to attribute something to us that we did not say.
“So it is his statement and he is entitled to it. It doesn’t
represent our position and he never said he represented
our position.”



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