The joke making the round in the Villa now is that all workers in the Vice President’s wing should be prepared to be attending compulsory Praise and Worship sessions every morning, beginning from Monday. It may end up not being a joke, but the truth.
Those spreading the news are hinging their position on the fact that Vice President Yemi Osinbajo is a pastor in the Redeemed Christian Church of God. They are quick to refer to what he did at the National Christian Centre on Sunday during the 2015 presidential thanksgiving and inauguration interdenominational church service.
Organisers of the service had invited Osinbajo who attended the service with his wife, Dolapo, to address the congregation for the first time.
Osinbajo however did not address the congregation as the Vice President-elect that he was at that time. He addressed them as a pastor, apparently because he was in a familiar terrain.
He started by singing four thanksgiving songs in four different Nigerian languages to the admiration of the congregation and the clergymen present.
Shortly after that, he proceeded into prophetic declarations on Jonathan and his family. It was prayer galore. Those of us who thought he would still address faithful after the prayers were surprised when he rounded the prayers with a loud “In Jesus’ mighty name I pray,” and he moved to step down from the altar.
So Villa workers are waiting to join “the pastor Vice President” in spiritual exercises from Monday.