The Leader of INRI Evangelical Spiritual Church, Primate Elijah Ayodele, on Friday denied allegations levelled against him by the Minister of Power, Bayo Adelabu, regarding an alleged attempt to extort him of N150 million.
In an exclusive report by a media organisation, Adelabu
petitioned the Department of State Services, DSS, accusing Primate Ayodele of
asking him to purchase about 1,000 trumpets, which would cost up to N150
million.
The minister claimed that his refusal to heed the request
prompted the prophet to prophesy that he would not become governor of Oyo
State.
However, in a statement signed by his media aide, Osho
Oluwatosin, Primate Ayodele denied ever attempting to extort the minister of
the said amount, explaining that he never asked him to send money apart from
procuring the trumpets, which he said were for the minister’s good.
The cleric explained that the minister himself asked for the
cost, and he provided a figure while asking Adelabu to send someone from his
end to the market to confirm the prices of the instruments.
Ayodele stated that aside from Adelabu, two other persons,
including his personal assistant, were pressurising him because the minister
was showing serious desperation for the governorship seat in Oyo State.
According to Ayodele: “I didn’t ask Bayo Adelabu to bring
money for prayers, I told him to ask someone from his end to go to the market
and find out how much the said trumpet cost, while someone follows them from my
end too. His personal assistant, himself, and the person he sent to me put me
under so much pressure because he was desperate for governorship.”
“He was the one who sent someone to me to talk to me on his
behalf. He went as far as saying he was willing to give anything to become the
next governor of Oyo State, and the only thing I told him is to get the
trumpets for his own good.”
Speaking further on their discussion, Primate Ayodele
explained that he told Adelabu that they would not be willing to give him the
governorship ticket, but that he could seek the mercy of God by buying the
musical instruments—not necessarily for his church—which he refused. Beyond
that, there was no other discussion.
“I told him that they won’t want to give him the
governorship ticket, but if he wants it so bad, he should seek the mercy of God
by buying the musical instruments for God, not even for my church, but he said
he can’t do it, that’s all,” he said.
Primate Ayodele stated that for years he had spoken about
Bayo Adelabu’s ambition and consistently maintained that it would take the
grace of God for him to become governor of Oyo State. Therefore, he argued, it
could not have been because the minister refused to yield, as he had never
spoken to him until Adelabu sent people to him.
He said: “I have been talking about how he won’t be made
governor of Oyo State for years; this is why he called me to seek solutions. I
have never spoken to him before till he sent people to me and personally
requested my spiritual help. I don’t make prophecies to make money, I am
blessed already, and my subsequent prophecies after our discussion about his
ambition aren’t because he failed to buy the musical instrument, it can never
be.”
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