Top 10 things prominent Nigerians said about Ocholi

The late minister, his wife and son reportedly died on his way from church, as well as his driver. His death has immediately sparked a lot of reactions from Nigerians who knew him closely and those who had only know him during the ministerial screening where he was adjudged one of the best nominees at the time. NAIJ.com’s Wuraola Zainab has compiled top 10 things that prominent Nigerians said about the late minister. The national women leader of the APC, Dr Ramatu Tijjani Aliyu, said: “You were right up till your death, a consummate gentleman, a source legal luminary and a quintessential family man.” Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Ex-vice president, Abubakar Atiku, in his message, said: “The nation had lost a committed professional whose place in his profession, political party and the budding administration in place today, would be hard to fill.” Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Senator Chris Ngige who worked closely with Ocholi in the ministry of Labour, said: “He died in active service and described him as an amiable and responsible family man.” Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Umar Duhu, the immediate past interim national vice chairman of the APC in the north east, said: “He was indeed a leader per excellence and a change agent.” Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Mai Mala Buni, the national secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), said: “he would be remembered for his selfless service to the country as minister, party, legal profession, and his home state Kogi.” Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Governor Nasir El-Rufai, who spoke through his spokesperson, Samuel Aruwan, stated as well, that “the minister died at a critical time when his contributions in the on-going national rebirth and realisation of the change mantra were needed.” Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi state said: “Ocholi was a complete gentleman and was irrevocably committed to the advancement of Nigeria.” Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Governor Dave Umahi of Ebonyi state described Ocholi as “A nice and responsible man who was conscious of his responsibility. It is a sad and national calamity.” Share on Facebook Share on Twitter President Muhammadu Buhari said: “Barrister Ocholi was an accomplished and patriotic Nigerian, who was keen to accept the call to service at a time his country needed him and concluded that it is a tragedy of monumental proportion. Ocholi was a key component of the change agenda.” Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Ocholi’s uncle, Abdallah Aliu in grief, said: “While I was in his house, I already knew because those who conspired and plotted it (the death) became jittery because I have never been to that house and they don’t know me. But somehow, they became jittery, scared and worried.”
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Malawian president Peter Mutharika has rejected Prophet TB Joshua’s prophesy

Vanguard reports that the president on March 13 said: “I’m told there is a man in Nigeria called Joshua and he is saying that Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe and Peter Mutharika will die before April 1. Let me tell you, Joshua… you will fail. What you did in 2012 will not happen again this year.” The president, who spoke in a rally in the capital Lilongwe, said in 2012, Joshua reportedly predicted the death of a president of an unnamed southern African country. Mutharika’s brother, Bingu, who was president at the time, did die within the predicted time frame, giving the prophesy strong currency in Malawi. He refused to disclose when or where Joshua made the latest prophesy. In January, Joshua reportedly gave a televised prophecy, telling his congregation to pray for the leaders in southern Africa, saying: “End of February to April this year, peculiar months for Southern Africa.” Mutharika questioned Joshua’s credentials as a prophet, pointing to the collapse of a guesthouse in his sprawling Synagogue Church of All Nations (SCOAN) in Lagos in September 2014, which left 116 people dead, mostly South Africans. “Why did he not foretell this tragedy? This all shows that he is a liar. He just wants to raise money,” Mutharika said. He promised he will be around in 2019 for the next presidential elections, and in also 2024, when — if reelected — he will wrap up his last term. Mutharika came to power in 2014 after defeating Joyce Banda. Banda, who succeeded Bingu Mutharika, made several visits to the Nigerian headquarters of Joshua’s church and once described the evangelist as her “spiritual father.” Prophet TB Joshua who is the founder of Synagogue Church of All Nations (SCOAN), has been under fire for several times for allegedly hiring people to pretend to be sick and disabled and then claim to heal them during his prayer meetings. He was recently ranked the 13th most famous pastor in the world. The ranking which was put together by a group known as Movement for Progress Initiative also ranked Apostle Joseph Ayo Babalola of the Christ Apostolic Church as 32nd in the same category. READ ALSO: TB Joshua is my boy! – witch doctor Kwaku Bonsam In a related development popular Nigerian pastor and head of Believers World, Pastor Chris Oyakhilome was accused by a member of his own church of staging miracle-healing sessions. According to a report by South Africa’s Sowetan, followers have said that he has been hiring people to pretend to be sick and disabled and then “be healed” during his television shows and public prayer meetings. “I was offered R10 000 to rehearse and pretend to be in a wheelchair three weeks before the all-night prayer called Night of Bliss at the Johannesburg Stadium,” the newspaper quoted a member of the church.