The General Overseer of Living Faith Church, popularly known as Winners Chapel, David Oyedepo has claimed that he will not be contesting for the presidency in the 2023 election, saying that becoming Nigeria’s President would be a demotion for him.
Oyedepo said vying to be Nigeria’s president is a demotion to him, adding that he’s called for a global impact.
He said this during a leadership summit transmitted worldwide.
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According to him, although he believes in Nigeria, it’s too late for him to contest the highest political position in the nation.
Oyedepo said, ‘I believe in Nigeria and that’s why I am still here, and still praying for Nigeria. But I consider it a demotion if I am invited to become the president of Nigeria.
‘I am called for a global impact. I saw this in 1984.
‘Even the devil knows that you can’t be genuinely sold-out to serving God, and not stand out in life.’
In a related development, the controversial general overseer of the Citadel Global Community Church, Pastor Tunde Bakare had last week picked the All Progressives Congress, APC, expression of interest and nomination forms for the Presidency.
Bakare picked the forms in Abuja last Thursday ahead of his official declaration this week.
Africa Today News New York reports that reports that the ruling party had pegged the forms at N100 million.
Recall that in September 2019, the clergyman had claimed that God told him he would succeed President Muhammadu Buhari in 2023.
That particular assertion had got many Nigerians talking on the possibility of that happening given the fact that he wasn’t an active member of the APC.
The pastor-cum-politician disclosed this on Saturday at the virtual meeting unveiling Project 16 to Nigerians in diaspora with the theme The portrait of a new Nigeria, organized by the PTB4Nigeria in diaspora group.
Bakare urged Nigerians to consider the capacity of candidates before electing a leader in 2023.
Africa Today News, New York