Jonathan, Seeking 7-Year Tenure, Meets TB Joshua And Attends Redeemed Church Holy Ghost Congress

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Goodluck Jonathan's campaign strategy to remain in power beyond May 29 2011 has taken a "spiritual" dimension with a secret meeting with Pastor TB Joshua, the controversial Nigerian pastor who claimed credit for the electoral triumph in Ghana of President Atta Mills.

Pastor Joshua also claimed to have helped Ghana win the junior FIFA world cup last year, a credit that was quickly dismissed by the players and coach of the Ghanaian national team.

Prior to Mr. Jonathan's meeting with the pastor, his wife, had visited TB Joshua in his Lagos church one week earlier.  The hush-hush meeting between the Pastor and the President took place, however, in Dodan Barracks in Lagos, once the seat of Nigeria's military dictatorships.

Sources told Saharareporters that the meeting was kept secret in order to avoid any kind of negative connotations that could affect his widely publicized spiritual jamboree at the annual "Holy Ghost Congress" of the Redeemed Christian Church of God at its headquarters off the Lagos -Ibadan expressway.

Last week, Mr. Jonathan secured the dubious endorsement of 20 governors of the troubled People's Democratic Party (PDP) for one term in office.  Informed political sources as well as some of the governors in attendance said it was however all done to assuage Jonathan's feelings temporarily after they had wrested from him the re-ordering of party primaries which was putting them at a disadvantage in the political scheme of the upcoming 2011 general elections.

"The so-called endorsement is not worth more than the cost of one the newspapers that reported it," one of the governors told SR last week.

But in a game that is yielding surprises and re-engineered alliances daily, Jonathan's hunt for a "spiritual" edge is to bolster his determination to stay in office for seven years, if he gets elected in 2011, not just for the four-year tenure he was reportedly endorsed for.

Jonathan, Seeking 7-Year Tenure, Meets TB Joshua And Attends Redeemed Church Holy Ghost Congress

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At least, 4-year term has now been achieved. This may even transformed to another 4-year term, making 8 years in all. Anyway, man proposes while God disposes.