By Okechukwu Okechukwu
The Governorship candidate of All Progressive Congress (APC) for Anambra State 2021 poll, Senator Andy Uba, Friday, warned the leader of INRI Evangelical Church, Primate Elijah Ayodele to face his religious callings.
Ayodele had in a recent prophesy claimed that the APC would not win the poll with Uba as candidate unless it files Chief George Moughalu, former Auditor of the party as flag bearer.
But replying Ayodele, Andy Uba Campaign Council in a statement by its Director General, Hon. Paul Chukwuma, said his comments was ridiculing the God's alter.
"We are at a complete loss, in total bewilderment as to the manner of fake prophesies the Primate has consistently dished out which neither conforms with ecclesiastical teachings nor to the spirituality of the human salvation. If the cleric must embarrass himself with this ritual of annual fake prophesies, we urge him to leave God and Christianity out of it.
"If one may ask, why is Primate Ayodele so fixated on APC and Anambra? Where was he when an opposition party won in Edo state. There has been elections at Bayelsa and Ondo so far credited with integrity. Why weren't any vision made on them? Let us make it abundantly clear to men like Ayodele and his sponsors that under President Muhammadu Buhari, old things have since passed away. Integrity has been the watch word, a reason why elections in Nigeria are becoming progressively cleaner" the council stated.
Continuing, it recalled that "the leader of INRI Evangelical Spiritual Church, Ayodele, in another set of his controversial prophecies painted unflattering image of the forthcoming election in Anambra state and the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). Primate Ayodele claimed that God showed him that there would be advanced rigging during the election, adding that the outcome would determine so many things ahead of 2023. He claimed that in his said vision, the ruling party wants to go all out to rig the election in favour of its candidate.
"It may help to also recall that the same self proclaimed man of God had prophesied that APC stands a better chance of winning the election if it fields George Muoghalu, and the APC aspirant was defeated by Distinguished Senator Andy Uba at the party Primary election. To now come out to foresee doomsday for the state, the same APC and the country because his preferred candidate, Muoghalu, is no longer in the race shows the depth of charlatanism Primate Ayodele has fallen into.
"We urge him to copy good examples from men of God who understand that one of the most cherished values of Christianity is it's solute neutrality in human politics. It doesn't signify impassivity. It simply acknowledges that rulership comes from God. Therefore, a situation where a so called man of God wakes up at random to make strange permutations in the name of prophesies like he has been doing, particularly in the last few days on Anambra state politics leaves so much to be questioned. We advised the cleric not to bring God's altar to ridicule," Chukwuma added.
"Let us also point out again that we, at AUCC, predominantly Christians, too, are again embarrassed by the clear, verifiable shenanigans of Primate Ayodele and his litany of fake prophesies. Was it not the same cleric who, in 2019, claimed that he saw a vision of Saraki winning the presidential election for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)?
Did PDP win? Where is Saraki now? He also prophesied against APC and Gov. Rotimi Akeredolu of Ondo state, and said the party will lose, but the governor won uptill Supreme Court."