GAME CHANGER? Nigerian main opposition party chooses provincial pastor of emerging global church-RCCG as Vice-Presidential candidate. And saviours shall come up on mount Zion....... Obadiah 1:21 At exactly 8pm on Day One of the recently concluded RCCG Holy Ghost Congress, a pastor took the altar at the Arena. He invited the 2,000 man choir to minister. He was back again on the podium at exactly 8.18pm. This time, it was to invite Bishop Wale Oke of the Sword of the Spirit Ministries to give the first message of the night titled-He is Worthy to be Praised. The Pastor in question is a known face at christian gatherings. In October 2011, Church Gist recollects the same face at The PLATFORM, a program organised by Covenant Christian Centre; at the event, this same pastor known as YEMI OSINBAJO spoke on the subject titled, “The value system upon which successful enterprises are built”. Pastor Yemi Osinbajo was a speaker again at The Platform in October 2013. This Pastor, Lawyer and Professor, a known entity in the church in a most unexpected twist has now been chosen as running mate to Gen Buhari in the forthcoming February 2015 Nigerian General (Presidential) Elections. Church Gist will not go into permutations; however, we glory in the fact that prophecy is being fulfilled. The world is turning to the church for help as it is. Announcements of Professor Yemi Osinbajo as the running mate of General Muhammadu Buhari in the forthcoming elections have been greeted with surprise as several people are largely unaware of the his background. Here are a few facts about the new Vice-Presidential Candidate and Assistant Provincial Pastor of the Redeemed Christian Church of God. *He is a pastor at Olive Tree House of Prayer for All Nations in Banana Island, which is a Redeemed Christian Church of God Parish *Professor Osinbajo is the Ethics Adviser to the Advisory Board of the African Development Bank *He is also a director of Citibank (non-executive) *He has served in various capacities in the United Nations. *He is also a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) *He is Senior Partner in Simmons-Cooper Partners law firm. *He is also a professor of law, and was HOD of Public Law at the University of Lagos (UNILAG) [1997-1999] *Professor Osinajo has written and co-authored (and edited) several books and publications. *He obtained his LLB degree at the University of Lagos and his LLM at the London School of Economics and Political Science. *He served as the Special Adviser to the Attorney General of Nigeria from 1988 to 1992. * In 1999, he became the Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice of Lagos state. He was reappointed for a second term in 2003. *In this time, he began the Lagos State justice reform project, which featured the establishment of the Directorate for Citizens Rights (DCR) (which gave free legal services and legal representations to Lagos states less-privileged.) *He lives in Lagos with his wife and three children. *Some of his books and publications are: “The Unification and Reform of the Nigerian Criminal Law and Procedure Codes” ; “Law Development and Administration”; “The Annotated Civil Procedure rules of The Superior Courts in Nigeria”; and “Cross Examination: A Trial Lawyer’s Most Potent Weapon”. *Professor Osinbajo is the co-founder and Board Member Convention on Business Integrity and the Justice Research Institute Ltd. In 2007, Prof. and his wife Oludolapo founded “The Orderly Society Trust”, a non-governmental organization that is dedicated to the promotion of Christian ethics and orderliness.
Posted on: Tue, 16 Dec 2014 04:18:16 +0000
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