PFN felicitates with Adeboye at 79
THE Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria ( PFN) has felicitated with one of the foundingfathers and former National President of the body, Pastor Enoch Adeboye, as he clocked 79 years yesterday.
PFN also congratulated Adeboye on his 40th anniversary as the General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God ( RCCG).
In a statement, yesterday, National President of the PFN, Rev. Felix Omobude, while appreciating Adeboye for the great work done in the ministry, said: “We celebrate the grace of God upon his life. We rejoice with him and his family. In 40 years as General Overseer, he has taken the Redeemed Christian Church of God all around the world. Under his leadership, the mustard seed has grown to become a mighty oak. He has been a tremendous leader to all of us and we wish him many more years of service to God and humanity.”
Omobude recalled that Pastor Adeboye led PFN from 1992 to 1995 and has remained an active member of the National Advisory Council, the apex administrative organ of the Fellowship, strongly supporting all the programmes and activities of PFN.
THE All Progressives Congress ( APC) candidate for Ikwuano/ Umuahia House of Representatives in the 2019 election in Abia State, Mr. Okechukwu Apugo, has urged lovers of political equity and egalitarianism to resist any plan or move in any quarter to jettison the extant orderly rotation of the governorship position among the three senatorial zones of the state in 2023.
He also urged all the political parties in the country to resist imposition of candidates for elective offices by influential persons or political godfathers.
Apugo, who spoke with journalists in Umuahia, yesterday, insisted that the extant “Abia Charter of Equity” that prescribed the orderly rotation of the governorship position and emergence of candidates for elective political offices in accordance with the constitutions of political parties must be complied with.
“Zoning must be respected and candidates for elective offices must emerge through due process. Nigerians ought not to allow any attempt by anybody to impose himself or crony on the state or political parties,” he warned. Apugo, who lost election in 2019 to his then Peoples Democratic Party ( PDP) rival, Chief Sam Onuigbo, cautioned politicians in the state to respect governorship zoning arrangement in 2023, describing zoning/ rotation as sacrosanct.
He said that the state governorship position, which started with Abia North, Abia Central and now held by Abia South, would by May 29, 2023 in accordance with the spirit of Abia Charter of Equity return to Abia North for second round of rotation and should not be truncated.
He, therefore, implored those interested in the governorship position in the state to wait for the turn of their senatorial zone, stressing: “Equity demands that power should return to Abia North come 2023 in the interest of peace and brotherhood.”
The APC chieftain, who urged those he described as greedy and selfish politicians not to disrupt the prevailing peace in the state, vowed that Abia youths would vigorously resist candidates’ imposition in 2023, stressing that the era of political god- fatherism has gone.