2019: Rev. Okotie Begs PDP, APC To Adopt Him As Consensus Candidate

Ahead of the 2019 presidential election, the General Overseer of the Household of God Church, Rev. Chris Okotie has begged the All Progressives Congress, APC and the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP to adopt him as their consensus candidate.

Okotie, who contested the 2007 presidential elections and lost, made the declaration on Sunday, July 15, 2018 at his church.

The cleric said the period of his “political hibernation,” has elapsed, hence the need for him to contest for the office of president in the forthcoming elections.

He said Nigeria needs a credible, dependable, trustworthy and a God-fearing man and his person fits the description, hence the need for him to be elected Nigeria’s next president.

He said, “Nigeria has become a divided and segregated society like never before.

“The dream of a great Nigeria which flowered at independence, the yearnings and aspirations of the people and the Nigerian brotherhood whose ensign dominated the political horizon at independence have all been consigned to oblivion.

“Times like this require the recruitment of patriotic gladiators who must now take up the gauntlet to defend the Nigerian dream.

“I have re-emerged from my political hibernation to contest for the office of president in the forthcoming elections. I am fully persuaded that Nigeria needs a man who is credible, dependable and trustworthy; a God-fearing man who will be readily embroidered with compassion and love for country who will be readily accepted as a symbol of national unity.

“I believe that the benevolent grace of God has telescoped these virtues into my person, to prepare me for such at a time as this.

“In sincere humility and deference to our democratic institutions, I appeal to the APC and PDP to subscribe to this ideal by adopting me as a consensus presidential candidate at the next elections.

“I ask the APC and PDP, respectfully, within the confines of conventional propriety, to temporise and observe a peaceful hiatus in the commonality of the Nigerian brotherhood, and embrace me as a consensus remedial facilitator,” Okotie said.