Senator representing Anambra South Senatorial Zone, Ifeanyi Ubah, and the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, have engaged in a war of words over prophecy by the leader of INRI Evangelical Spiritual Church, Primate Elijah Ayodele.
APGA had in a recent press release condemned Ayodele who had prophesied that Anambra State governor, Prof Chukwuma Soludo, will not be reelected as governor in 2025, and that Ubah would succeed him.
Reacting to Ayodele’s prophecy, Ubah’s media assistant, Kamen Chuks Ogbonna, has come hard on Soludo and APGA, describing them as having less regard for clergymen and traditional rulers.
Ogbonna in the release said both APGA and Soludo have been jittery since Ubah moved into the All Progressives Congress, APC, and declared his intention to contest against Soludo.
Part of the release read: “We are not surprised; Soludo already has a well-established record of insulting the clergy, the traditional institution, and critical stakeholders in the state.
“Traditional rulers have been threatened with suspensions for daring to confer chieftaincy titles on Senator Ifeanyi Ubah, the highly revered Obi of Onitsha, Igwe Alfred Achebe, CFR, who lent his voice in condemning this affront on the traditional institution had his Anambra State Traditional Rulers Council (ASTRC), dissolved.
“Recently, even newspaper vendors were not spared as many of them had their stands destroyed and newspapers confiscated, while a priest who lost his mother was publicly scolded by the governor for daring to organize what was called a lavish burial.”
Ogbonna said it is not a surprise that Soludo’s aide, Chinedu Obigwe, attacked Ayodele.
He advised that power belonged to God, and that ridiculing men of God for doing that which they are divinely called to do will not confer any advantage on anyone but will rather trigger the wrath of God.
“We must all respect our ordained men of God, even where their prophecies fail to align with our expectations,” Ogbonna stated.
