President Goodluck Jonathan on
Monday met separately with two
leading pastors in the countries
based in Ogun State.
Jonathan met with the General
Overseer of the Redeemed
Christian Church of God, Pastor
Enoch Adeboye; and the Presiding
Bishop of the Living Faith Church
Worldwide a.k.a Winners Chapel,
Bishop David Oyedepo.
The headquarters of Winners
Chapel is located in Ota, Ogun State
while the Redemption Camp of the
RCCG is situated at Mowe along the
Lagos-Ibadan Expressway.
The President arrived the
Presidential Wing of the Murtala
Muhammed Airport, Lagos in the
afternoon and was conveyed to the
venues of the separate meetings in
a helicopter.
The two meetings were said to
have been described as “private”
and hence were not opened to
journalists.
After the closed-door meetings
with the two clergymen, Jonathan
who was accompanied on the trip
by a few aides, returned to Abuja
immediately.
Details of discussions at the
meetings were not known as of
press time.
The Special Adviser to the
President on Media and Publicity,
Dr. Reuben Abati, could not be
reached to comment on the
purpose of the meetings as of the
time of filing this report.
It would however be recalled that
Adeboye and Oyedepo were
mentioned to be part of a team that
attempted to broker peace
between Jonathan and former
President Olusegun Obasanjo
before the 2015 general elections.
The two pastors were said to have
in January led the President to
Obasanjo’s mansion on Presidential
Hilltop Estate, Abeokuta, the Ogun
State capital for a reconciliatory
meeting.
Media reports had it then that
Adeboye and Oyedepo were at the
meeting at the instance of the
former President as one of
conditions given by Obasanjo
before any meeting with Jonathan
could take place.
It was learnt that the men of God
were called to be witnesses of
what would transpire between
Jonathan and Obasanjo during the
meeting after the terms of the
outcome of previous discussions
between the two were allegedly
not implemented by the President
by ROTMANLUV 2023-07-08, 17:34
