The pastor of the Household of God Church International Ministries in
this interview with a Punch correspondent talks about his 2015
presidential ambition despite three failed attempts and his
controversial anti-catholic comments last year where he called the Pope
an Anti Christ and said all Catholics are going to hell,
Read excerpts from the interview below…
Has God spoken to you yet about contesting for the election or not?
God spoke to me about my participation in the political process, which
was why I took the step in the first place. He has not said anything
contrary.
Why do you still want to contest knowing that you have not always
secured reasonable votes to become president? Besides, elections in
Nigeria have not always been free and fair.
You said it. The elections have always been rigged, everybody knows that
and that is why it is incorrect to say I have not always secured the
votes required to win.
You recently stirred up controversy when you said Catholics would go to hell. Why did you say that?
It is because the church perverts the gospel of Jesus Christ and that
perversion is located in the leadership. Even as Pope Francis recently
announced. However, there are many good Christians within the Catholic
Church who are not aware of the doctrine of the Roman Catholic Church,
that has substituted Mary for Jesus, in what is known as the hyperdulia
of the Virgin Mary. Salvation for them is not through Jesus alone but in
accordance with what Pope Francis recently announced to the world.
That, in itself, is a direct violation of the sanctity of the
scriptures.
You even described the Pope as “an anti-Christ and a friend of
Satan” and that the Catholic Church is a counterfeit church set up by
Satan. What made you say this?
The heresies in their doctrine and the recent announcement by Pope Francis corroborate this position.