“PFN now a clannish religious enterprise,” says Okotie

By our reporter| The founder of the Household of God Church, Rev. Chris Okotiehas on Friday disassociated himself from the election of Bishop Wale Oke’s new national executive of the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN).

In a statement to the PFN National Secretariat in Lagos, Okotie said the Christian body “has departed from its core values and is now a shadow of itself.”

“PFN has become a clannish religious enterprise,” he said in the statement issued by his media adviser, Ladi Ayodeji.

“It is akin to an amorphous political entity with a Christian silhouette.

“Leadership in the church of God is by divine appointment and not the whims and caprices of a disjointed assemblage of Episcopalian pacifists.”

The statement noted that Okotie has, for years, been critical of the activities of the successive Presidents of the PFN over alleged compromise and unethical behaviour bordering on the betrayal of the Christian cause, especially in their dealings with the political leadership of the country.

As a result, the statement added, Okotie, a former presidential aspirant, “had always distanced himself from the activities of the Christian body, citing credibility issues”.

The PFN, has in the past been led by James Boyejo, Mike Okonkwo, Benson Idahosa, Ayo Oritsejafor, and Rev Ayodele, amongst others.