Primate Elijah Ayodele, the Founder and Leader of the INRI Spiritual Evangelical Church in Lagos, has disclosed that he warned the late Senator Ifeanyi Patrick Ubah about the politician’s impending demise that occurred last week.
Ubah died in London on Saturday, aged 56.
Testifying that although he loved Ubah, Ayodele said the news of the demise of the Anambra-born business mogul and politician came as no surprise to him.
He said, “Ubah’s death is no news to me, I love him so much, but I warned him.”
According to Primate Ayodele, Ubah was told of the impending danger for which he wanted to start a project for the church as part of “cleansing,” but he downplayed the importance.
He said: “When I warned him, he mixed politics with the spiritual. It is just a lesson to everybody. I don’t need to tell you that he was my friend; Ubah was a nice person to me. He wanted to start a project for the church for him to live long.”
He also said that Senator Ubah was the only person that would have given incumbent Governor Chukwuma Soludo a run for his money in the upcoming governorship election in Anambra State.
Ayodele said: “I felt bad when I heard it. Except that he appeared not serious for the governorship, he would have been the best candidate to defeat Soludo. That is why I said he was not serious, he was mixing politics with the spiritual, you don’t play politics with your Creator.”
