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Four Months To Presidential Election, Jonathan Heads To Israel For Prayers by bukifemi1: 10:20am On Nov 01, 2018
President Goodluck Jonathan will on Friday depart Lagos on a brief pilgrimage to Israel, his office said in a statement on Thursday.

The statement issued in Abuja by Reuben Abati, the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, said Mr. Jonathan would visit Christian Holy sites during the pilgrimage.

According to the statement, he will join other Nigerian pilgrims in a prayer session for the well-being and progress of the country at an Inter-Denominational Service in Jerusalem on Sunday.

The president, who will be accompanied by the Chaplain of the Presidential Villa, Obioma Onwuzurumba, and his principal aides, is expected back in Abuja on Monday.

Mr. Jonathan’s office did not specifically identify the aides accompanying him on the trip but the President is known for travelling with outsized delegations on foreign trips.

Mr. Jonathan’s trip to Israel, which is his second in 12 months, is coming about four months to the 2015 presidential election in which he is most likely to run as the candidate of the governing Peoples Democratic Party [PDP]. The Independent National Electoral Commission [INEC] has fixed February 14, 2015 for the next presidential election.

During his last visit, Mr. Jonathan met with President Shimon Peres and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as well as with members of the Israeli Parliament, the Knesset.The president had on October 23, 2013, embarked on a similar trip which he combined with an official visit to Israel.

The talks between the President’s delegation and Israeli government focused on the enhancement of bilateral relations between Nigeria and Israel...

https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/169992-four-months-to-presidential-election-jonathan-heads-to-israel-for-prayers.html

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Re: Four Months To Presidential Election, Jonathan Heads To Israel For Prayers by Upsidedown9ja(m): 10:25am On Nov 01, 2018
APC and Nigeria government are planning to lunch chemical bomb in Israel and you are there praying.
Re: Four Months To Presidential Election, Jonathan Heads To Israel For Prayers by Firefire(m): 10:29am On Nov 01, 2018
Safe trip sir

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Re: Four Months To Presidential Election, Jonathan Heads To Israel For Prayers by NwaAmaikpe: 10:30am On Nov 01, 2018
shocked


Wow.
Nnamdi KANU has influenced GEJ's religion?

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Re: Four Months To Presidential Election, Jonathan Heads To Israel For Prayers by magoo10(m): 10:33am On Nov 01, 2018
grin
Re: Four Months To Presidential Election, Jonathan Heads To Israel For Prayers by hucienda: 10:33am On Nov 01, 2018
This is 2014 news.
Re: Four Months To Presidential Election, Jonathan Heads To Israel For Prayers by OneDollarSalary(m): 10:41am On Nov 01, 2018
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NwaAmaikpe:
shocked


Wow.
Nnamdi KANU has influenced GEJ's religion?



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Gej have been going to Jerusalem, dressed like this even before nnamdi dreamed of going to pray at the Wailing Wall.

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Re: Four Months To Presidential Election, Jonathan Heads To Israel For Prayers by crestedaguiyi: 10:42am On Nov 01, 2018
GEJ is also a jew
Re: Four Months To Presidential Election, Jonathan Heads To Israel For Prayers by tolexy007(m): 10:46am On Nov 01, 2018
grin grin grin grin grin grin grin uncle Jona the peace maker
Re: Four Months To Presidential Election, Jonathan Heads To Israel For Prayers by crestedaguiyi: 11:31am On Nov 01, 2018
OneDollarSalary:
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Gej have been going to Jerusalem, dressed like this even before nnamdi dreamed of going to pray at the Wailing Wall.

show us proof of your assertions or angry angry
Re: Four Months To Presidential Election, Jonathan Heads To Israel For Prayers by mankan2k7(m): 11:53am On Nov 01, 2018
To woo KANU

if u know u know

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