Pay $5,000 per mantle or you miss God—Ayo Oritsejafor

&NewLine;<p><br> Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor&comma; former president of the Christian Association of Nigeria&comma; CAN&comma; and senior pastor of the Word of Life Bible Church in Warri&comma; Delta state&comma; in a church service&comma; captured in a video&comma; asked members to pay &dollar;5000 for mantle&period;<br> In a video link&comma; http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;hosannatimes&period;com&comma; early unveiled by Star Weekly&comma; Ayo was heard admonishing the congregation to stand on the feet and come forward for the donation or &&num;8220&semi;miss God&&num;8221&semi; <br> The video has gone viral on social media with corresponding anylyses and criticism&period;<br> In the video&comma; the pastor requested 90 members at a church in the United States&comma; Morris Cerullo&comma; to pay &dollar;5000&comma; equivalent of N1&period;8 million each&comma; for mantle&period; <br> Oritsejafor had undergone Theology training at Morris Cerullo’s School of Ministry &lpar;El Cortez&rpar;&comma; San Diego&comma; California in 1979&period;<br> He told the congregation that they would miss God if they not do so&period;<br> &&num;8220&semi;I have 90 mantle&period; This is what I want you to do&period; I want 90 persons to come out with &dollar;5000 each for the 90 mantle&period;&&num;8221&semi; Oritsejafor commanded&period;<br> However&comma; when he observed the congregation was not moved&comma; he added &&num;8221&semi; I know you have been giving&period; If you believe I am a man of God and I am not doing this out of my own will&comma; get out of your seat now and come forward&period; Don&&num;8217&semi;t miss God now&comma; don&&num;8217&semi;t miss God now&period; Not now&comma; not now&comma;&&num;8221&semi; he ordered&period;<br> Known as Ayodele Joseph Oritsegbubemi Oritsejafor aka Papa Ayo Oritsejafor&comma; he is the founding and Senior Pastor of Word of Life Bible Church&comma; located in Warri&comma; Nigeria&period; He became the national president of the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria &lpar;PFN&rpar; on 7 February 2005&comma; a position he held for five years&period; <br> In July 2010&comma; Oritsejafor was elected President of the Christian Association of Nigeria&lpar;CAN&rpar;&comma; the apex body of all Christians in Nigeria&period; Indeed&comma; he became the first Pentecostal leader to hold the position&period; <br> Christian records have it that Oritsejafor was the first to launch a Miracle crusade from Africa to a world audience via satellite in 1987 with evangelist Joe Martins&period;<br> Oritsejafor sees himself as a servant of God and an instrument through which the God ministers to the spiritual and physical needs of people&period; He places emphasis on salvation&comma; repentance&comma; holiness&comma; deliverance and empowerment of the less privileged&comma; through social responsibility programmes&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;