NEWS:

ADEBOYE, OYEDEPO AND OTHERS REJECT OSINBAJO, SUPPORT JONATHAN

FOR SECOND TERM

        Pastor Enoch Adeboye, the General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) has failed to endorse the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Muhammadu Buhari and his running mate, Prof. Yemi Osinbanjo for the February 14 presidential election, which has now been postponed to March 28.
         Rather, Adeboye has queued behind
President Goodluck Jonathan in the electio
Adeboye made his postion known during a
meeting of leaders of the Christian
Association of Nigeria (CAN) and the
Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN) held
at the Redemption Camp.
The leaders of the two bodies had convened
the meeting to pray for the country and for a
successful general elections

    The meeting, however, turned out to be for
secret endorsement of Jonathan’s
candidacy. In attendance at the meeting were Adeboye, Bishop David Oyedepo of the Winners Chapel; Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor, CAN
President; Rev. Felix Omobude, PFN
President; Pastor Paul Adefarasin, PFN Vic
President; Pastor Wale Adefarasin of the
Guiding Light Assembly and other key
Christian leaders in the nation.
 
      Pastor Osinbajo was also at the meeting to
seek their blessing to support him and the
candidacy of Muhammed Buhari.
Pastor Paul Adefarasin was said to have
broken the silence when he asked Adeboye
who they should support since his ‘son’,
Pastor Osinbajo is vying for the vice
presidency with Buhari.
They wanted Adeboye to say something and
Osinbajo was watching as he believed that
Adeboye will certainly ask other leaders to
endorse him, but he was disappointed.
Adeboye was said to have told them that he
is a man under authority and that since he i
under the authority of CAN and PFN, whoev
they endorsed, he would support and go wit
them.

    It was then that Oyedepo stood up and said
he had prayed and that God was leading hi
to endorse and support Jonathan and that
was the script the Christian leaders adopte
at the expense of Osinbajo.
Instead of the meeting being for prayer for
the nation, it was gathered that it turned ou
to be for the secret endorsement of Jonatha
as all the leaders present except Osinbanjo
agreed that CAN and PFN should go with
Jonathan.

     Osinbajo was not allowed to address the
Christian leaders, giving the excuse that
since the other contesting party was not
present, they would not allow him to addres
the audience. He was said to be downcast as his own
rejected his aspiration.