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‘We don’t owe member who gave us SUVs’
Grace Nation Church has said it does not owe Omolayo Michael, who gifted it two vehicles three years ago and is demanding their return.
In a statement, the church’s lawyer, Ilesanmi Akinwale, noted Michael gave the church two SUVs of his free will during service, but denied the church owed him.
He clarified that the church never solicited nor requested any gifts from Omolayo.
The statement reads: “Sometime in 2021, Omolayo during service gave two cars to the church to express and appreciate God’s faithfulness in his life, family and business and gave the original documents of these vehicles to the church secretariat.
“For close to three years, the vehicles were really never in use and were parked in one spot until the church management decided that rather than allow the vehicles to rot, one of them should be sold and the proceeds remitted to church coffers.
“The management also agreed the second SUV be given as a gift to a member to support and encourage members.
“In March, Michael approached our pastor for N10 million financial assistance, saying his business had not been doing well. Efforts were made to assist him in obtaining a loan from a bank.
“We were shocked when he told the police the church refused to return the SUVs and owes him N50 million for supply of diesel.
“We have been inundated with calls from the media threatening to publish negative reports against the church.
“While we reiterate our commitment to stand by our members in difficult times, we will not allow anyone to damage our reputation and integrity through cheap blackmail, character assassination and extortion…’’
Bishop Godwin Elim, the Senior Pastor at Live for Christ, aka Lifting Assembly in Abuja has said God’s Kingdom is the birthright of believers as this is not negotiable.
Naijablitznews reports Bishop Elim made this assertion on Saturday in his sermon drawing vivid examples from bible passages and real life examples.
This is part one of the series to run through the week.
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The All Progressives Congress, APC has won all 20 Chairmanship and 236 Councillorship seats in the Ogun LG Polls.
Naijablitznews reports that the Ogun State Independent Electoral Commission (OGSIEC) on Sunday, declared all the 20 chairmanship candidates of the All Progressives Congress (APC) winners of Saturday’s local government elections conducted in the state.
The Chairman of the commission, Babatunde Osibodu also declared all 236 APC councillorship candidates as winners of the election while presenting the official results of the polls at the commission’s headquarters at Oke-Ilewo, Abeokuta, the state capital.
Osibodu said the ruling party, APC, emerged victorious across all the 20 local government areas and 236 wards in the state by polling a total of 613,156 votes cast in the exercise which witnessed major political parties like the Accord Party (AP), African Action Congress (AAC), African Democratic Congress (ADC), Action Democratic Party (ADP) and the All Progressives Congress (APC), participating.
Other political parties that participated in the exercise included the Allied Peoples Movement (APM), All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), Labour Party (LP), Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Social Democratic Party (SDP), Young Progressive Party (YPP), Action People’s Party (APP), Action Alliance (AA), Boot Party (BP), People’s Redemption Party (PRP), National Rescue Movement (NRM) and Zenith Labour Party (ZLP).
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared Governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa as the winner of the guber election conducted in Ondo State on Saturday.
Aiyedatiwa, who is the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the election.
He polled a total of 366,781 votes to defeat his closest rival in the election, Agboola Ajayi, who is the candidate of the People’s Democratic Party in the election.
The APC cleared all 18 local government areas.
While the PDP polled a total of 117,845 votes, the Labour Party (LP) polled 1,162 votes and the Zenith Labour Party (ZLP) polled 2,692 votes.
Prof Olayemi Akinwunmi announced the result of the Ondo governorship election at the State headquarters of INEC in Akure.
VIDEO: God’s kingdom is your birthright it’s not negotiable -Bishop Elim(Part 1)
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