Onitsha-based clergyman Chukwuemeka Ohanaemere, popularly known as Odumeje in October 2021, said that the Anambra State governorship election which was slated for November 6, 2021, would not take place on the scheduled date.
Odumeje had claimed that he had been praying and the only thing he could see was bloodshed and death instead of a peaceful election.
He had mentioned this in a Facebook video shared by Holy Ghost Intervention TV on October 29, according to TheCable.
Although in recent times, Anambra has been suffering from different ranges of insecurity which heightened tension on whether or not the election would take place as it was expected to be marred by violence.
Odumeje had said that “I am looking at the election that will come in Anambra State; I have been praying but I don’t see election because I see deaths. I see deaths of guns. Through a prophet, a nation is saved.
“We pray, this election in Anambra State, even before the election, because I don’t see the election hold(ing). Because I am seeing where people kill people; Don’t say I did not say it.
“When I say something, I can never joke when I say something. I saw anger, where the election were [sic] stopped. When a prophet is talking, a nation that wants development listens.”
However, the election eventually took place against the prediction of the clergyman but few instances of violence were recorded and no casualty was reported during the main and supplementary polls.
Meanwhile, a report of Ejike Mbaka, spiritual director of Adoration Ministries Enugu Nigeria (AMEN), saying Chukwuma Soludo, governor-elect of Anambra State, would lose if he contested the election was already making the rounds.
“I called Soludo and said, ‘you are my very good friend; Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria, I have been sent to tell you not to run for governor because you will fail. If you contest and fail I don’t know what else you will run for,” Mbaka said in an audio clip, switching from Igbo to English.
“Keep your prestige, your honour, your divinely acquired integrity, your professional reputation; go to the World Bank catch a job there.
“I warned him but he didn’t listen, he said he is sure of victory. I got his wife’s number and called her; she was in London. I said this is what I told your husband.”
However, the audiotape was from a sermon in 2013, when Soludo was contesting against Willie Obiano. He (Soludo) would later lose to him (Obiano).
The warning by Mbaka has no connection with the just-concluded governorship race where Soludo won with 112,229 votes.
Via Sahara Reporters
