Stop denigrating me, APC, Uba tells Primate Elijah Ayodele

 

ANAMBRA, Nigeria – Candidate of the All Progressive Congress APC in the November 6, Anambra State governorship election, Senator Andy Uba has called on all  well-meaning Anambra citizens to prevail on Primate Elijah Ayodele, Leader of  INRI Evangelical Church to stop denigrating  his person and the party.

Senator Uba in a statement issued by the Andy Uba Campaign Council (AUCC) on Friday in Awka state capital urged the leader of INRI Evangelical Church to halt the sudden fixation on hisperson , the APC,  and the politics of Anambra State.

He urged  him to  emulate the good examples of other men of God who understand that one of the most cherished values of Christianity is it’s absolute neutrality in human politics.

According to him, it is unfortunate that   Ayodele, in another set of his controversial prophecies painted unflattering image of the forthcoming election in Anambra state and the ruling All Progressives Congress.

He said that Ayodele had claimed that God  showed him that there would be advanced rigging during the election, and  that the outcome would determine so many things ahead of 2023,noting in his vision, that the ruling APC   wants to go all out to rig the election in favour of its candidate.

The APC candidate also said that the same man of God had prophesied that the party stands a better chance of winning the election if it fielded George Muoghalu, and the  aspirant was defeated by Distinguished Senator Andy Uba at the party’s Primary election.

According to him, Ayodele  coming  out to foresee doomsday for the state, the same APC and the country because his preferred candidate, Muoghalu, was no longer in the race shows the depth of charlatanism Primate Ayodele has fallen into.

“When the Primate made that prediction, we at the Andy Uba Campaign Council (AUCC), were  forced to call him out for what he truly is.  We advised the cleric not to bring God’s altar to ridicule.

 

We are once again constrained to call on all well meaning individuals in Anambra and beyond to help prevail on Primate Elijah Ayodele, Leader, INRI Evangelical Church to halt this sudden fixation on Distinguished Senator Andy Uba, the All Progressives Congress (APC), and the politics of Anambra State.

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 absolute 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.

Again, 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).

Since it appears that the cleric is unwilling to listen to reason and common sense, we are again compelled to advance to our earlier position on him that such blatant, open partisan and unabashedly unsolicited campaign, completely contrasts with teachings of Christianity, a religion Distinguished Sen. Andy Uba is completely devoted to.

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 the party will lose, but the governor won up till Supreme Court.

“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” he said.