Reacting to a prediction credited to Primate Theophilus Olabayo of the Evangelical Church of Yahweh, Maryland, Lagos, that APC would lose the governorship election in the state next year, the state Publicity Secretary of the party, Mr Joe Igbokwe, said the cleric was only aiming at regaining public relevance.
Igbokwe said Olabayo’s prediction never came to the party as a surprise, following his antecedents of failed predictions in the past.
He stressed that he (Olabayo) was only trying to use APC to bounce back to relevance, having suffered physical, financial and spiritual setback years ago.
“Is it not the same man who predicted years back that George W. Bush would defeat Bill Clinton at the American polls only to publicly apologise that he saw Clinton and not Bush, after Clinton became the president?
“In 1991, the ‘man of God’ predicted the imminent death of a very prominent Nigerian who threatened to sue him for the fake prophesies. The man is still alive till date and still kicking at over 80 years of age. Are these not enough to make the self-acclaimed Nostradamus to cover his face in shame?” Mr Igbokwe said.
The APC publicist advised the founder of the Evangelical Church of Yahweh to heed the word of the Bible which says “Healer, heal thyself,” saying that just as his past predictions had gone into the garbage bin, so would this one, which the party rejected in God’s name.
He added that Kogi State-born Olabayo had gone back to his old ways of seeking relevance through controversial predictions which usually caused confusion.
Primate Olabayo had in an interview predicted that the APC would lose Lagos State to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in next year’s governorship poll.
Source: Tribune
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