Founder and Presiding Pastor at Household of God, Reverend Kris Okotie, is once again bidding for the coveted seat of Nigeria’s presidency come 2019.
The man of God, on Sunday, 15th July 2018, made this known at a special thanksgiving service to mark his 60th birthday.
Speaking, Okotie said he had written letters to chairmen of both the ruling APC and PDP seeking to be adopted as their consensus presidential candidate in 2019. “I have written to the two big parties to be made their joint presidential candidate and I promise to make a difference. I will run a government of national reconciliation and reconstruction,” stated the former pop star turned cleric.
Okotie, at the service, read and distributed to the audience copies of the letters he addressed to both Adams Oshiomhole, National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and his Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) counterpart, Prince Uche Secondus.
The cleric, in the letter, urged the two parties not to conduct primaries for aspirants to the position of president but adopt him as their consensus presidential candidate.
Okotie said he is God anointed for the office of president in 2019, lamenting that Nigerians had been confronted by “existential threats that seek to engender the fragmentation and disintegration of our nation as a holistic entity.”
Nigeria has become a divided and segregated society like never before, he said, adding that the people have become polarised by ethnicity; and have become balkanised by religious fundamentalism. “We have become fractured by political insensitivity and leadership disability,” he stressed.
The cleric said that he is fully persuaded that Nigeria needs a man who is credible, dependable and trustworthy; a God fearing man who is embroidered with compassion and love for country; a man who will be readily accepted as a symbol of national unity, who can bring genuine reconciliation and guarantee peace and tranquility in our nation,” and that man, he said is him.
