1000 bishops, pastors make another futile attempt to reconcile Jonathan, Obasanjo

Another attempt to reconcile President Goodluck Jonathan and former President Olusegun Obasanjo has again crashed as two key actors were absent at a meeting organized for the purpose in Abuja on Sunday. .
Reports indicate that over 1000 Bishops and Pastors from the Pentecostal fold were gathered at the Ecumenical Center Abuja but were disappointed that but the incumbent president and one of his predecessors and mentor were conspicuously absent.
It was leant that the clerics came from different parts of the country, with some arriving late on Saturday while some others including those from Imo State arrived in the early hours of Sunday.
President Goodluck Jonathan was reportedly away to Germany on an official duty, while the former President Obasanjo was said to have been represented by his pastor the reconciliation prayer meeting could not precede.
Obasanjo arranged Jonathan’s nomination as the Vice President candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to Late President Umaru Yar’Adua in 2007. Jonathan who later elected President in 2011 after completing late Yar’Adua tenure, has fallen apart with mentor ostensibly over the coming 2015 election.
Although, political insiders tend to ascribe the rift to overbearing attitude of Obasanjo, whose attempts to run the affairs of this country by proxy were subtly rebuffed by Jonathan.
Obasanjo has since made several trenchant criticism of Jonathan presidency, culminating in a letter which he leaked to the media in which he dismissed president Jonathan as a non-performer and laid various unsubstantiated accusations against the president, including nurturing a strike force ahead of 2015 elections.
Characteristic of the former president, whom many Nigerians believe was a bad president in the eight years he bestode the political arena of this country like a colossus, has been postoring as a messiah who wants to save the country from misrule.
It was not clear whether dueling titans were properly invited to the meeting, but sources indicated that the president was not given formal invitation to attend but that he was aware of the meeting.
According to a Vanguard report, President Jonathan was represented at the prayer meeting by Venerable Obioma Onwuzurumba.
He clergy men had wanted the two personalities to be present so that the reconciliation could be effective
One of the 100 pastors from Imo State was quoted in the report as saying that they were stranded on arrival early hours of Sunday and founder and General Overseer of Light of God Mission, Mbaise, Imo State, Rev. Udechukwu Matthew Uka also explained that the prayer meeting was to ensure a total reconciliation between President Jonathan and former President Obasanjo.
Rev. Uka also said in the report that the reconciliation of the two would bring a peaceful election in 2015 as well as unity to the country, stressing that the Men of God were concerned over the suspected strained relationship between two great leaders of the country.
He said, “We came to Abuja to pray for the peace and unity of this nation and to make sure that the leaders of this nation are working in unison, especially we want to pray that God will unite the former President of Nigeria, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo with the present President, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan.
“We know that they are leaders and when two of them are united, many souls, many part of the nation will be united, they are the head. The former President is aware of our coming, he is the grand patron of this network which is Master Seed Pentecostal and College of Bishops and Ministers network.
“We are almost 1000 in number organized by our national President Bishop David Emma Okoroafor Agu. The 1000 ministers are from different states of the federation. Many are from Rivers State, some from Akwa Ibom, Cross River, Abia State, Enugu, Anambra, Imo, Lagos , Edo, Delta and many other parts of the country.”
He also said that President Jonathan was aware of their and coming for the reconciliation meeting.
Another pastor, Modestus Kelechi, who is the General Overseer of Holy Ghost Intercessory Ministry with its headquarters in Mbutu, Aboh Mbaise in Imo State, was also cited as saying that it was imperative that President Jonathan and former President Obasanjo should unite to give the nation direction.