Televangelist and pastor of Household of God Church, Reverend Chris Okotie has again joined the presidential race ahead of the 2019 election.
The erstwhile pop musician declared his intention to run for the presidency under the platform of the Fresh Democratic Party yesterday, during a service to mark Nigeria’s Independence Day at the Household of God Church, Ikeja, Lagos.
Okotie however calls on other political parties to adopt him as a consensus candidate.
“I want to re-affirm my call for an interim government and to ask those that are concerned, who are the political actors to consider me as a consensus candidate. I have referred to myself as a consensus remedial facilitator because of the existential threats that we have now and I think that it’s time for us to lay aside the habiliments of our political affiliations and to embrace a new nationalistic philosophy that can salvage this country at this time,” he said.
Okotie first attempted to rule Nigeria when he ran for the Presidency under the banner of the Justice Party (JP), led by Ralph Obiorah after he was schemed out of the National Democratic Party (NDP) primaries elections.
He lost the 2003 election to Chief Olusegun Obasanjo in the May 2003 elections. Okotie ran again in 2007 on the platform of his Fresh Democratic party and lost to Umaru Yar’Adua in the May 2007 elections.
Then in 2011, he ran and lost to the then incumbent President Goodluck Jonathan.
The trained lawyer founded the Household of God Church February 1987 and has remained a consistent minister of the gospel ever since.
