WITH OCHOLI’S DEATH, FEAR GRIPS MINISTERS
Terror is the fiercest emissary of death. It is what the grim reaper sends to cow the most valiant of men just before it delivers its masterstroke of anguish and interminable torment. This perhaps informed the mad scramble for life by late James Ocholi’s peers. Soon after the death of the former Minister of State for Labour and Employment in a gory accident, his colleagues in President Muhammadu Buhari’s cabinet have started running helter- skelter, in search of spiritual protection. Like starved greyhounds jostling for mouthfuls of fetish sacrifices placed at communal crossroads. And the reason is not far- fetched. Ocholi’s demise occurred few months after a Nigerian pastor predicted the death of a top minister in President Buhari’s cabinet. The pastor made the prediction during the Yuletide, when many pastors seeking to make a name, reveal their prophecies for the new year.
When the pastor made the prediction, many people dismissed it as the desperate antic of a pastor seeking cheap publicity and acclaim; ministers in the presidential cabinet scoffed at him calling him a charlatan. However, immediately James Ocholi died in an auto crash along with his wife and first son, President Buhari’s ministers became jittery. Immediately, they believed that the Ocholis’ death is a fulfillment of the pastor ’ s grim prediction for 2016. Highlife findings revealed certain prominent ministers in the presidential cabinet are now consulting senior pastors in the country, as you read, for prayers for their safety at work and at home.