Cleric Predicts Peaceful 2011 Polls

The General overseer, Victory Christian Prayer Ministry (VCPM), Pastor Dan Obinegbo, has predicted that the April 2011 general elections in Nigeria would be peaceful, and will reshape the nation’s political destiny for the better.

Obinegbo, a Journalist turned preacher, also prophesised that President Goodluck Jonathan of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) would emerge winner of the forthcoming presidential election.

Disclosing this while speaking with newsmen at the Ministry’s headquarters in Enugu, he explained that President Jonathan’s upliftment as the number one citizen of Nigeria was a divine mandate by God.

He, therefore, dismissed as false prophesy all predictions of doom made by some clerics in respect of the 2011 general elections, insisting that the “2011 is an election of destined change, that would turn out in a way that public mandate would be respected”.

Pastor Obinegbo said “God brought out Dr. Jonathan for five purposes, which include embarking on total reconciliation of all aggrieved segments of the country, breaking of tribal and cultural barriers, enthroning truth in governance, healing the wounded as well as reshaping of the current political imbalance in the nation’s scheme of things.

He used the forum to advise political gladiators in the country to eschew all forms of politics of bitterness and violence, stressing that they should always play the game according to the laid down rules and regulations in the over all interest of the nation”.

The Pastor, who also predicted victory for Governor Sullivan Chime of Enugu State, based on his performance in office, charged security agents in the country to be alive to their responsibilities during

and after the April polls.

“I want to advise the security forces and religious leaders to do their jobs diligently with a view to avoiding any act capable of igniting crisis during the general elections”, he said

Religious leaders, he further said, should always preach good news of peace, love and unity to their congregation, rather than preaching sermons capable of inciting the people or causing violence in the land.

On the current revolutions taking place in some North African countries such as Tunisia, Libya and Egypt, the man of God stated that “what is happening in the world today, is beyond the political calculation of political analysts, adding that there is a divine mandate of global change that would shake long established systems instituted in evil”, calling on Nigerians, including politicians to embrace God in their own interest and generations yet unborn.