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.
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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 rathercrattled 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.
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