Cardinal (Dr.) James Omolaja Odunmbaku’s Soul Winners Ministries International, in Lekki, Lagos, has become a spiritual haven for desperate politicians who are bent on winning at all cost. Odunmbaku, who is also a presiding shepherd of the Celestial Church of Christ (CCC), City of God Cathedral, Ojodu, Lagos and the chief missioner of the Soul Winners Ministries International, with headquarters in Lekki, is again the Vice Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Lagos as well as the party’s Campaign Chairman for the forth coming elections. A check at his over 100 acres Ajah Mission Camp in the past weeks showed an influx of several top politicians who are seeking one political office or the other. A source who works at the Mission Ground told YES INTERNATIONAL! Magazine that: “It is true that many politicians have been coming lately. Some of them are already calculating where the pendulum would swing in the next governorship election and as such lobbying for one political appointment or the other. Some come for spiritual blessings and some for strategies on how to win the election, because as you know, he is now the Campaign Chairman of APC in Lagos State.” A self motivated, multi-tasking, hardworking politician and clergy man, the reason he was nicknamed “Baba Eto” (The Organiser). Before his rise in Lagos and Nigeria’s South West politics, the APC stalwart who is in his 60s, worked for business mogul, Chief Henry Fajemirokun as his Personal Assistant at the defunct Nigerian Maritime Services. He cut his political teeth under the defunct Action Group under the leadership of the late sage, Chief (Dr.) Jeremiah Obafemi Awolowo. He later crossed over to the Unity Party of Nigeria, before he met late Chief MKO Abiola, who employed him as a Special Adviser on grass roots mobilization. He equally doubled as the Chairman of the Lagos State Hope 93 Project, which was the umbrella body saddled with the actualization of the late MKO’s presidential ambition in 1993. Baba Eto later got hooked to the activities of the Alliance for Democracy under the leadership of Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu. Odunmbaku who was the Chairman of the Bola Ahmed Tinubu Campaign Organization (BATCO) later became Director of Mobilization/Deputy Director General of the Independent Campaign Organization (ICG). This was achieved on account of his feat as a great political pillar whose efforts in the political machinery of Lagos and the entire South West zone are undeniable. He was the Vice Chairman of the APC in Lagos West Senatorial Zone until recently when he was appointed the Vice Chairman of the party in the entire state and now the Campaign Chairman.
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