The Common Overseer of Dominion Energy Meeting Worldwide, Apostle Paul Odola, has countered the current declare by controversial cleric, Pastor Abel Damina of Energy Metropolis Worldwide, that he (Damina) ordained the Senior Pastor of Dunamis Worldwide Gospel Centre, Dr Paul Enenche, and gave him path into ministry.
Damina had additionally claimed that he ordained each Dr Enenche and Apostle Odola the identical day into their ministries.
However, talking for the primary time on the controversy in an interview with journalists, Apostle Odola faulted Damina’s claims, stressing that Pastor Enenche was already a longtime gospel minister earlier than his path crossed that of Damina very briefly in 1995.
He stated, “I’ve been privileged to know Dr. Abel Damina in 1988 and Dr. Paul Enenche since 1994, and that was the primary time Dr. Paul Enenche got here into the image.
“On the time Dr. Paul (Enenche) got here into the image, he was already a person of God in his personal proper. I’ve a specific handbill the place Dr Paul was featured as a visitor speaker in 1995.
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“In that handbill, there was one pastor known as Dr Friday Yanga. Dr Paul got here into the image already as a minister of the gospel, fireful and vibrant. He typically attended conferences that Damina organized then.
“There was this Jos Prayer Convention that was happening then that Dr. Paul attended. When the ICMA motion turned a church, Dr. Paul got here in as an affiliate minister. Typically he went round preaching, so we didn’t get to see him on Sundays. If he was round, he simply got here in for the service.
“I had the chance to ask Dr Paul to minister for us in Bauchi State in 1995. He was then a person of God in his personal proper. He got here to that assembly with Dr Becky, his spouse, and their daughter, Deborah, his mother-in-law. He was anointed, fireful, a person of God in his personal proper by all requirements.
“We had the chance of coming round Dr. Joshua Talena and Dr. Damina, and it was very clear that Dr. Paul was totally different. He was totally different from us in so some ways. He was totally different in his life-style, his strategy to ministry, and his morality. At one of many conferences we had in Uyo in 1996, Dr Paul additionally attended. It was apparent that Dr Paul had his personal strategy, his personal life-style, and ministry. He solely got here round as an affiliate.
“We at all times knew he had a ministry that was going to be international due to his way of living and ministry, which was fairly totally different from ours.
“His very strict and excessive lifestyle was totally different from ours as a result of we had been all younger males then. The best way he’s at this time, I’m not shocked.
“If Dr Abel Damina claims to have educated or ordained Dr Paul Enenche into ministry, it’s false.
“When a person who had his personal ministry and was already in ministry associates with you at one time limit, it doesn’t imply you ordained him into ministry. It is rather like saying John the Baptist ordained Jesus into ministry. Right now, we will see that Dr Paul Enenche had it and was intentional about it whereas he was with us.”
Requested how lengthy Dr Enenche’s affiliation with Damina lasted earlier than he based his church, Odola stated, “The interplay was fairly transient as a result of Dr Paul was already in ministry and solely related to us. He realized that the corporate was not befitting for him and he left.
“On our half, our youthful exuberance was very apparent, so Dr Paul, sensing and understanding that, needed to fully dissociate himself from us. That interplay and affiliation had been transient. I believe it was that lack of precept and youthful exuberance that he noticed. When he got here round, he didn’t keep too lengthy and at this time, the distinction is obvious.”
Talking on the declare that Damina was a part of the inaugural service of Dunamis Church in Abuja, Odola stated, “To one of the best of my reminiscence, Dr Paul had already began the church in Abuja when Dr Damina and I got here for certainly one of his conferences. I used to be a part of that convention. The church had already began earlier than Dr Abel Damina was invited to come back as a visitor minister.
“As a matter of reality, we had been all shocked at what the church had grown to be inside a brief interval. Clearly, I don’t assume it was the inaugural assembly that we got here for as a result of the church had already began and Dr Abel was invited as a visitor speaker and all of us got here collectively.
“Anybody with us then would know that Dr Paul Enenche knew the place he was headed and what he needed to do. Folks like Rev Talena may inform that Dr Paul got here in with the understanding of ministry and the place he was headed.
“When it was time to begin his personal ministry, all of us knew he was going to go away.
“Dr Paul had at all times proven clearly that he knew the place he was going and what he needed to do in ministry.
“I need to say this with all sincerity. I invited him (Dr Paul) to evangelise in our church in Bauchi in 1995 as a result of I noticed that he was fairly totally different amongst us. He was the primary person who ever got here to evangelise after I answered the decision.
“I did it as a result of I noticed what he had and who he was. Right now, I’m not shocked at what the Lord has used him to do. I had the privilege of taking a tour of the Glory Dome not too long ago, and I need to say that individuals solely see the Dome from the surface. They do not know of the Glory Dome besides if they arrive and go to and expertise it like I did. Dr Paul isn’t just a present to our nation; he’s a present to our era.
“What he has been in a position to do by the hand of God, no man can declare. No man can declare that he has impressed it. He’s a generational present and persistently stays an inspiration to our era. I believe everybody of their proper senses ought to give this man the dignity he deserves and be taught from what God is utilizing him to do.
“Dr Paul Enenche, I need to say this with all sincerity is likely one of the best voices we’ve got within the physique of Christ. He is kind of like the present father of our religion as a result of, whether or not we prefer it or not, the older generations are phasing out.
“He is likely one of the present fathers of religion that my era of ministers is wanting as much as. Let’s speak concerning the lives that he has touched. In each nation he has gone to, presidents and leaders of that nation attend his crusades. Such a person ought to be given the dignity he deserves.
“So, Dr Damina’s feedback concerning Dr. Paul Enenche are fully unfounded.”
