What Reverend Chris Okotie Said At A Most Turbulent Period During Buhari’s Government—Former Adviser

<h4>What Reverend Chris Okotie Said<&sol;h4>&NewLine;<p><strong><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;openlife&period;ng&sol;">OpenLife Nigeria<&sol;a><&sol;strong> reports that a major secret about Reverend Chris Okotie&comma; founder of HouseHold of God Fellowship&comma; has been let out by Mr&period; Femi Adesina who was Special Adviser on Media and Publicity to President Muhammadu Buhari between 2015 and 2023<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em><strong>In eight years of serving as Special Adviser on Media and Publicity to President Muhammadu Buhari&comma; I saw humanity in different dimensions&colon; the good&comma; the bad and the ugly&period; Some people were after us morning&comma; noon and night&period; Implacable&period;<&sol;strong><&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em><strong>We were at the mercy of supposedly Christian preachers who were full of bile&comma; malice and malediction&period; <&sol;strong><&sol;em><br &sol;>&NewLine;<em><strong>They cursed&comma; saw evil visions&comma; gave prophecies which never came to pass&comma; and whipped up hatred from the pulpit against their country’s leadership&period;<&sol;strong><&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;vanguardngr&period;com&sol;"><em><strong>They were akin to Alexander the coppersmith&comma; who Paul the Apostle said &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;did me much evil&period;” &lpar;2 Timothy 4&colon;14&rpar;&period; And like Paul further prayed&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;the Lord reward him according to his deeds&period;”<&sol;strong><&sol;em><&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em><strong>At a particularly turbulent period during the administration&comma; when my name was everywhere&comma; and the Wailing Wailers and coppersmiths of this world were deliberately twisting and turning whatever I said upside down&comma; calling me all sorts of names for faithfully serving the President&comma; my phone rang&period; <&sol;strong><&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em><strong>Who was at the other end&quest; Rev&period; Chris Okotie&comma; Senior Pastor&comma; Household of God Church&comma; Ikeja&comma; Lagos&period;<&sol;strong><&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em><strong>I’d known the cleric for a number of years&period; He had been particularly gracious to a Christian ministry I belonged to&comma; and was also among those upholding me in prayers in my national assignment&period;<&sol;strong><&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em><strong>So&comma; on that day&comma; he called me up&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Brother Femi&comma;” &lpar;that’s how he usually calls me&comma; and I believe there’s no greater honor in Christendom than to be called Brother or Sister&comma; no matter other titles we parade&rpar;&period; <&sol;strong><&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em><strong>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I’m calling to encourage you at a time like this&period; Please stay loyal to the President&period; He needs you at a time like this&period; If everybody betrays him&comma; you must not&period; You are serving a government you chose to serve&comma; so stay steadfast&period; Don’t mind the nonsense that some people are saying&period; We live in a very complex country&period;”<&sol;strong><&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em><strong>I thanked Reverend Okotie profusely&comma; promising that I would remain with President Buhari all the way&period; He said God would help me&comma; and went off the line&period;<&sol;strong><&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em><strong>That was a Christian preacher who chose to be Christlike&comma; when many others were excoriating the Christians in the Buhari government&comma; saying we were serving a Muslim fanatic and jihadist&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Father forgive them&comma; for they know not what they do&period;”<&sol;strong><&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em><strong>There’s a chapter in my forthcoming memoir titled &OpenCurlyQuote;Buhari and a part of the Church&period;’ There&comma; you will get to read what some preachers did to us&comma; and how they spewed hatred from the pulpit&period; So very unlike Jesus Christ&period; Pity&excl;<&sol;strong><&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em><strong>&OpenCurlyQuote;Working With Buhari&colon; Reflections of a Special Adviser&comma; Media and Publicity’ is in print&period; Sooner than later&comma; you will get to read it&comma; by the grace of <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;openlife&period;ng&sol;">God<&sol;a>&period;<&sol;strong><&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;17221" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-17221" style&equals;"width&colon; 300px" class&equals;"wp-caption alignnone"><img class&equals;"size-medium wp-image-17221" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;openlife&period;ng&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2022&sol;10&sol;Buhari-laughing-1280x720-1-300x169&period;jpg" alt&equals;"What Reverend Chris Okotie Said At A Most Turbulent Period During Buhari’s Government---Former Adviser" width&equals;"300" height&equals;"169" &sol;><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-17221" class&equals;"wp-caption-text"><em><strong>Former President Muhammadu Buhari of Nigeria<&sol;strong><&sol;em><&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;