Adeboye backs CAN, PFN as APC unveils Shettima VP
The General Overseer of Redeemed Christian Church of God, Pastor Enoch Adeboye, on Tuesday denied meeting with the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu.
The church in a statement on Tuesday said Adeboye was under the authorities of the Christian Association of Nigeria and the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria, adding that he would not speak “on behalf of Christians on issues regarding policies”.
This is even as the leadership of the APC Wednesday has formally presented Senator Shettima as Tinubu”s running mate at Shehu Musa Yar’Adua Centre in Abuja, amid protest by aggrieved party members and religious bodies.
Adeboye’s clarification took the wind out of speculations making the round on social media platforms and online media.
Reports had filtered in earlier than Tinubu had surreptitiously led a delegation to see the RCCG overseer on Sunday at the Redemption Camp in Ogun State.
The report claimed that Sunday’s meeting with the cleric was in line with the party’s proposed consultation to appease aggrieved religious leaders and bodies like the Christians Association of Nigeria.
The Lagos State APC chairman, Pastor Cornelius Ojelabi, had said five days ago that there are plans by the former Lagos State governor and the party to engage with aggrieved stakeholders including CAN.
Ojelabi strongly believed that reconciliation and sustained enlightenment campaign would help assuage frayed nerves ahead of the 2023 general elections.
He said, “Tinubu and the party will engage all stakeholders on the need to really play down on this issue of religion and think of the future of our country ahead of the 2023 general elections,” he said.
“I can tell you that it has started already. Tinubu is a very liberal person. He is not far from these Christian leaders. He is closer to them than most people know. It is just a matter of reaching out to them to explain the situation of things and the need to give him the opportunity to turn the country around for good.”
