President Goodluck Jonathan on Monday met separately with two leading pastors in the countries based in Ogun State.
Jonathan met with the General Overseer
of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Pastor Enoch Adeboye; and the
Presiding Bishop of the Living Faith Church Worldwide a.k.a Winners
Chapel, Bishop David Oyedepo.
The headquarters of Winners Chapel is
located in Ota, Ogun State while the Redemption Camp of the RCCG is
situated at Mowe along the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway.
The President arrived the Presidential
Wing of the Murtala Muhammed Airport, Lagos in the afternoon and was
conveyed to the venues of the separate meetings in a helicopter.
The two meetings were said to have been described as “private” and hence were not opened to journalists.
After the closed-door meetings with the
two clergymen, Jonathan who was accompanied on the trip by a few aides,
returned to Abuja immediately.
Details of discussions at the meetings were not known as of press time.
The Special Adviser to the President on
Media and Publicity, Dr. Reuben Abati, could not be reached to comment
on the purpose of the meetings as of the time of filing this report.
It would however be recalled that
Adeboye and Oyedepo were mentioned to be part of a team that attempted
to broker peace between Jonathan and former President Olusegun Obasanjo
before the 2015 general elections.
The two pastors were said to have in
January led the President to Obasanjo’s mansion on Presidential Hilltop
Estate, Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital for a reconciliatory meeting.
Media reports had it then that Adeboye
and Oyedepo were at the meeting at the instance of the former President
as one of conditions given by Obasanjo before any meeting with Jonathan
could take place.
It was learnt that the men of God were
called to be witnesses of what would transpire between Jonathan and
Obasanjo during the meeting after the terms of the outcome of previous
discussions between the two were allegedly not implemented by the
President.
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