Pastor Bakare Blasts CAN, PFN For Endorsing Jonathan

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAECdkzmdzVOhgN2BxSXb_W8G9nMGP_H8pAD0XF9WoughKfj5pUoxzbdouYnGRzDtT_FR2Ywl186S5JJUb1GQGkOzF0vigILMh8qcsIE3IKf32L_KrQohlbY1kMSXZiVe1vzcFmGUDslwe/s1600/Pastor-Tunde-Bakare-360x225.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="430" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAECdkzmdzVOhgN2BxSXb_W8G9nMGP_H8pAD0XF9WoughKfj5pUoxzbdouYnGRzDtT_FR2Ywl186S5JJUb1GQGkOzF0vigILMh8qcsIE3IKf32L_KrQohlbY1kMSXZiVe1vzcFmGUDslwe/s1600/Pastor-Tunde-Bakare-360x225.jpg" width="640" /></a></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <b><br /></b></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <b>The Serving Overseer of the Latter Rain Assembly and Convener of the Save Nigeria Group, Pastor Tunde Bakare has lashed out at CAN and PFN for endorsing President Goodluck Jonathan for the 14 February presidential election at the expense of one of their own, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, the running mate to the All Progressives Congress, APC, presidential candidate, Muhammadu Buhari.</b></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Bakare, who had repeatedly called for the postponement of the elections, said during his sermon at the weekend that he learnt Christian leaders held a secret meeting where they endorsed Jonathan, saying that the reason Christian leaders said they won’t support him (Bakare) in 2011 when he was running mate to Buhari was because they claimed he was too controversial and had never contested any election before.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> He asked: "Why have they refused to support Osinbajo who is not a radical in 2015?"</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Bakare lamented that the development could lead to a sharp division within the church, insisting that because 2014 was not fixed, a dangerous storm would brew after the general elections since all the stakeholders have refused to heed his warning that the polls should be postponed.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> In his sermon titled "The Sweet And Sour Ministry Of The Prophet", Bakare said "a prophet is sent to bring change not build consensus", adding that "whenever you compromise what is right in order to gain acceptance with men, you lose acceptance with God."</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> He said some of the compromising Christian leaders he often described as palace prophets, were only after their pockets, which was why they have queued behind Jonathan and rejected their 'son'.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> The biblical quotation, "He came unto his own, and his own received him not", played out itself a few days ago when the Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, and the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria, PFN, rejected Pastor Osinbajo who came to them for support for his political ambition. They told him that they were for President Jonathan.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Leaders of CAN and PFN had met at the Redemption Camp of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, RCCG, to pray for the nation and the forthcoming election, but the meeting turned out to be for a secret endorsement of Jonathan’s candidacy.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> In attendance at the meeting, were Pastor Enoch Adeboye, General Overseer, RCCG; Bishop David Oyedepo of the Winners Chapel; Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor, CAN President; Rev. Felix Omobude, PFN President; Pastor Paul Adefarasin, PFN Vice President; Pastor Wale Adefarasin of the Guiding Light Assembly and other key Christian leaders in the nation.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Pastor Osinbajo was also at the meeting to seek their blessing to support him and the candidacy of General Muhammed Buhari.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> 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 'Baba' will certainly ask other leaders to endorse him, but he was disappointed.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Adeboye was said to have told them that he is a man under authority and that since he is under the authority of CAN and PFN, whoever they endorsed, he would support and go with them.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> It was then that Oyedepo stood up and said he had prayed and that God was leading him to endorse and support Jonathan and that was the script the Christian leaders adopted at the expense of Osinbajo.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Instead of the meeting being for prayer for the nation, it was gathered that it turned out to be for the secret endorsement of Jonathan as all the leaders present except Osinbanjo agreed that CAN and PFN should go with Jonathan.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> 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 address the audience.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> He was said to be downcast as his own rejected his aspiration.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> CAN has been campaigning for Jonathan through messages being sent on <i>Whatsapp</i> to discredit the candidacy of Buhari in order to sway people to support Jonathan.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> In one of the messages sent by CAN, it said that: "During Babangida’s  regime, he sold Nigeria to (Organisation of Islamic Countries) OIC" in order to Islamise Nigeria with an agreement that OIC will be supporting Nigeria financially and materially to accomplish their mission. And every year, Nigeria will be paying interest to OIC. So from IBB’s regime, Nigeria has been paying, until 1999 when Obasanjo who is a Christian came and stopped it for eight years.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> "Then, in 2007 Yar’Adua came in and paid the outstanding debt of Obasanjo to OIC, with an interest and apology, he also paid his own from 2007-2010 and died. Goodluck Jonathan came in and stopped it for six years now and OIC constitution said that any member nation that stopped this payment for 10 years will be automatically excommunicated. Now GEJ has ruled Nigeria from 6th May, 2010-2015. He is seeking for 2nd tenure that will make it 10 years so that Nigeria will be delivered from the blood sucking Islamic religion" CAN said in the text message, believed to be sponsored by Pastor Oritsejafor.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> CAN further said that was why APC Presidential candidate, Buhari has been fighting to rule Nigeria since Obasanjo’s administration to date.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> "Remember Nigeria’s 100 years centenary was in 2014. And any religion that starts to rule from this 2015 will take dominion till the next 100 years. Note: I am not campaigning for GEJ, but I am just revealing a secret to my fellow Christians to vote for religion. Forget Boko Haram. OIC masterminded it to distract us, it will soon be over.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> "Nigeria did not have the monopoly of terrorism, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Egypt, Pakistan, Kuwait, Somalia, etc have. This entire nation has been fighting terrorism since in the 80s yet… Don’t personalize this secret please! Make sure you send it to all your friends and everybody around. May God bless you, as you will vote for a Christian President in Nigeria election - 2015. Remember, God will judge you for using your thumb to dig the grave of his Church – CAN", the <i>Whatsapp</i> message said.</div>

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"Dead Men Don't Talk" - Wole Soyinka

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcwFW1g6Gu0BTVLvsfbaR17NZVSe1U9BCJC-S5R4qc_f0Id9TuLY2WVtgrZ4ctAKUwIzWWcjQdAg4M8-XYLAfN1-di9vaNlVU4ANcyCa39tDu3NAYj7CvSNQw3vwmaAUh3QTO5ReJ88T3-/s1600/wole-soyinka.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="482" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcwFW1g6Gu0BTVLvsfbaR17NZVSe1U9BCJC-S5R4qc_f0Id9TuLY2WVtgrZ4ctAKUwIzWWcjQdAg4M8-XYLAfN1-di9vaNlVU4ANcyCa39tDu3NAYj7CvSNQw3vwmaAUh3QTO5ReJ88T3-/s1600/wole-soyinka.jpg" width="640" /></a></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <b><br /></b></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <b>Two days after the rumour of Professor Wole Soyinka’s death that went viral on the social media, P.M.NEWS finally tracked the man down this morning. In his characteristic witticism, he said no interview because “Dead Men Don’t Talk!”</b></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Upon further prompting, he simply invited <b><a href="http://www.pmnewsnigeria.com/2015/02/02/im-alive-soyinka/">P.M.NEWS</a></b> to a conference: “I will emerge briefly from the crypt on Thursday, February 5 at Freedom Park for the Festival Conference on the VISION OF THE CHILD – the children’s item on the Festival. Try and be there yourself, as it will be more than the children’s competition. The theme of this year’s edition – in case you’re not already aware of it – is: ROAD TO SAMBISA. See you.”</div>

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Lagos Businessman, Molade Okoya-Thomas, Dies At 79

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQO1hHLcpSNh1EfBrsXWCQ-5gpnHH_09dmXvmq5pJUBsxqSo96wIQUW5bdNsT2_5S3xOpcS2_m6wL20eXBS4M4XDX8yD6LsmU3cbkkM94kcjuoBtc-aYlBgnOcurdPD0bGeBNp0txHOykC/s1600/Okoya-Thomas-465x336.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="460" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQO1hHLcpSNh1EfBrsXWCQ-5gpnHH_09dmXvmq5pJUBsxqSo96wIQUW5bdNsT2_5S3xOpcS2_m6wL20eXBS4M4XDX8yD6LsmU3cbkkM94kcjuoBtc-aYlBgnOcurdPD0bGeBNp0txHOykC/s1600/Okoya-Thomas-465x336.jpg" width="640" /></a></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Chief Molade Alexandria Okoya-Thomas, the Lagos businessman and socialite has died.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> He was aged 79.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Until his death, he was chairman of many organisations including CICA (Nigeria) Ltd., Transcap Nigeria Ltd., Oktom Investment Ltd., Itochu Nigeria Ltd., Chiyoda Nigeria Ltd. and Anchoria Investment & Securities Ltd. He also served as Director of NFI Insurance Company Plc and Gateway Bank Plc.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> He has also contributed to the development of Lagos State by serving in numerous committees including; member, Lagos City Council from 1971 to 1975, member Lagos State Development and Property Corporation, Chairman Board of Trustees Glover Memorial Hall and Tom Jones Hall.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Molade Okoya-Thomas was an active sportsman in his youth, he was a Joint All Nigeria Record Holder of 4 X 220 yards relay race while at Baptist Academy Lagos. He has been the sole sponsor of the annual Asoju Oba Table Tennis Championships for over four decades, setting a record as the only Nigerian to have single-handedly and consistently sponsored a competition spanning over four decades.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Okoya-Thomas MFR was born in Lagos on 8 June 1935 to Late Hussam Okoya-Thomas (the first Baba Adinni of Furabay Mosque, Olowogbowo, Lagos and the first local staff of CFAO, who served the company for 52 years) and Late Alhaja Suwebat Okoya-Thomas (née Gbajabiamila, Otun Iya Adinni of Idita Mosque).</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> He studied at Princess School, Lagos, 1946; Balham and Tooting College of Commerce, London, 1956-1959; Columbia University, New York, US, 1981. He was appointed Director, Transcap Nigeria Limited; Director, Niger Motors Industries Limited; Chairman, Studio Press Nigeria Limited and as been the Chairman of CFAO Nigeria Limited since 1987.</div>

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[Photo News]: Bomb Blast After Jonathan's Campaign In Gombe

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrWKPG7eiMct5zj6LAAXEkeV8cSK9J_yPvaSvmam_oYen7_tKQ1fr181cjKRz2Z7v2_-rfsvUcyXhdOJzMc5NZqkcMRL2EOGcZe-dVxZhopMHObNWwRJ0LDyMdyc5vvV1T4LOWEYrDkR91/s1600/GEJ+GMB+Expl.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrWKPG7eiMct5zj6LAAXEkeV8cSK9J_yPvaSvmam_oYen7_tKQ1fr181cjKRz2Z7v2_-rfsvUcyXhdOJzMc5NZqkcMRL2EOGcZe-dVxZhopMHObNWwRJ0LDyMdyc5vvV1T4LOWEYrDkR91/s1600/GEJ+GMB+Expl.jpg" /></a></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <b><br /></b></div> <b><div style="text-align: justify;"> <b>A bomb explosion has been reported after President Goodluck Jonathan's presidential rally in Gombe town, the Gombe State capital today according to a report monitored on AIT's facebook page.</b></div> </b><div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div> Details of the explosion will be brought to you later.<br /><div> <br /></div> <div> <br /></div> </div>

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Egypt: 183 Supporters Of Muslim Brotherhood Sentenced To Death

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQ-PqTfyjKpu825lpQUKLDwlC5jPkuCTd32iX-VgwiJyYbm8dZeyKDMJY5wSe_bhxfA6BkGov7Yp3Lwxu-nvJB5fHHWzvT-Qjfwh-1fRpkmoMH6e4ZAJLwGyhECohoSJy57hpsrw72hEYA/s1600/Muslim+Brotherhood.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="430" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQ-PqTfyjKpu825lpQUKLDwlC5jPkuCTd32iX-VgwiJyYbm8dZeyKDMJY5wSe_bhxfA6BkGov7Yp3Lwxu-nvJB5fHHWzvT-Qjfwh-1fRpkmoMH6e4ZAJLwGyhECohoSJy57hpsrw72hEYA/s1600/Muslim+Brotherhood.jpg" width="640" /></a></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <b><br /></b></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <b>An Egyptian court sentenced 183 supporters of the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood movement to death on Monday over the killing of police officers during unrest in 2013.</b></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> The men were convicted of playing a role in the killings of 16 policemen in the town of Kardasa in August, 2013 during the upheaval that followed the army’s ouster of Islamist president Mohammed Morsi. Thirty-four were sentenced in absentia.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Egypt has mounted one of the biggest crackdowns in its modern history on the Brotherhood since the political demise of Morsi, the country’s first democratically elected president.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Thousands of Brotherhood supporters have been arrested and put on mass trials in a campaign which human rights groups say shows the government is systematically repressing opponents.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, who as army chief toppled Morsi, describes the Brotherhood as a major security threat.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> The movement, however, says it is committed to peaceful activism, we learnt from <b><a href="https://www.google.com.eg/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CCEQqQIwAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.reuters.com%2Farticle%2F2015%2F02%2F02%2Fus-egypt-brotherhood-court-idUSKBN0L60VK20150202&ei=6HnPVK7BDYqraaLEgOgO&usg=AFQjCNHUXeRHcrj8hfhklZDvgiL4mxhJfA&sig2=xC39niMU3WTEK_qhsM1-Cg">REUTERS</a></b>.</div>

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VP's Office Under APC Govt. Won't Be A 'Spare Tyre', Says Osinbajo

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRhf9TxaXGlBT42BvQ_MVmDCNMzyIdl9pOf7QO12G6eH5Q_6-b3dgXmotLb4yxJiY8lMWBw_GbpNvN7VV74gCm111ByzQogtcBNDKIcldmzmKKIltAMXeZeCFBbzWYEFRkYgjHyfIUcZjw/s1600/Osinbajo2.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="410" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRhf9TxaXGlBT42BvQ_MVmDCNMzyIdl9pOf7QO12G6eH5Q_6-b3dgXmotLb4yxJiY8lMWBw_GbpNvN7VV74gCm111ByzQogtcBNDKIcldmzmKKIltAMXeZeCFBbzWYEFRkYgjHyfIUcZjw/s1600/Osinbajo2.JPG" width="640" /></a></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <b><br /></b></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <b>The Vice Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, said the office of the Vice President under an APC will not be a "spare tyre".</b></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> A statement issued by the APC Presidential Campaign organisation signed by the media director, Alhaji Garba Shehu quoted Osinbajo as saying this at a parley with health care professionals under the auspices of the Health Care Federation of Nigeria on Sunday in Lagos.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Osinbajo said that the party had made adequate plans to ensure that the National Economic Council, which is under the office of the Vice President, was made a vibrant body in line with the provisions of the constitution.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> The statement also quoted Osinbajo as saying that an APC government would partner with the private sector for effective healthcare delivery.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> He said the party would also ensure the lowering of the cost of funds to provide easy access to capital, to address the crisis in the power sector and expend a minimum of one billion dollars on health insurance.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> The APC Vice Presidential candidate said that corruption would be tackled head-on as a first step to tackling the nation’s myriad of problems.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> "We have to deal with corruption very seriously", he said.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> He said that the party’s free education policy which would in the first instance be available at primary and secondary school levels, and later extended to tertiary levels but limited to science, technology, engineering, maths and education, the <b><a href="http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/02/vice-presidents-office-apc-govt-will-not-spare-tyre-osinbajo/">VANGUARD</a></b> reports.</div>

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