By Bruno Mbanaso
Obi made a surprise and
unscheduled
visit to Holy Ghost Adoration
Ministries
with his entourage, says the
proprietor
of Holy Ghost Adoration
Ministries, Rev
Father Emanuel Obinma aka
Ebube
Monso.
Gov. Obi had in his broadcast
claimed to
have been invited by the
Reverend father,
but the spiritually gifted clergy
confided
in a close friend and
worshipper in the
church that what Obi is
broadcasting to
the state in not correct, as he
did not
invite him, but could not have
asked him
to leave once he had come.
Our source states: ‘Rev.
Obinma as visibly
angry, based on the false claim
by the
governor in a state-wide
broadcast,
which gives the impression that
our
church is being mixed up with
politics.’
‘Well, we do not ask people to
leave when
they come here, We open our
hands to
receive all, because that is the
nature of
soul-winning, but to say that
we sent a
written invitation to him ( Gov
Obi) to
attend our vigil on November 1,
2013 is
to say the least worrisome’ Rev
Obinma
was quoted as saying.
According to our
very reliable source, the
catholic priest is
yet to make up his mind
whether to join
issues publicly with Gov. Obi
but is very
resolute about straightening the
records
on the issue of a written
invitation to the
governor’.
Gov Obi had attended a night
vigil in the
Adoration Centre at 2.00am last
Saturday
along with Candidate of APGA
in
November 16 governorship
polls, Mr Wilie
Obiano, National Chairman of
APGA, Chief
Victor Umeh,Director General of
Willie
Obiano Campaign Organisation,
Chief Joe-
Martins Uzodike, also the
Commissioner
for Information,Mr Oke Udeh
erstwhile
Deputy Governor who betrayed
Dr Chris
Ngige in office as a governor,
and one
Ifeanyi Ibezi, a native of
Abatete, among
others.
There attempt to speak to the
crowd and
convince them to vote for
Obiano failed,
as the people initially protested
the mix-
up of worship with politics.
However,
when Obi insisted on having his
way, the
crowd burst into a song,
rendering
praises to Senator Dr Chris
Ngige, Obi’s
political rival and candidate of
the All
Progressive Congress (APC), a
development which angered
Obi.
Peter Obi at the Adoration
Grounds
It took the intervention of Rev
Fr Obinma
for Obi to speak at all to the
people, who
became uncontrollable again
when the
governor asked them to vote
for Obiano
who was beside him in the
uniformed
delegation.
Obiano has since denied
attending the
vigil with Governor Obi, while
Obi’s
broadcast to the state carefully
omitted
the name of the faltering
candidate of
Obi’s political party.
Controversy has ensued over
the actual
time of departure of the
governor from
the venue, and how it relates to
the
stampede which eventually
recorded a
death casualty of 61 persons as
the
governor claims to have left at
3.00am ,while eye-witnesses
say the
governor and his entourage
were in Uke
ill the adoration closed at 5.20
am.
‘Look, telling you the story as
someone
who was there, forget all you
hear those
who felt angered by the
governors
intrusive presence simply
hauled sachet
water and other things at
him ,leading to
the decision of his security
details to
shoot into the air and release
some
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