LET ME TELL YOU A LITTLE ABOUT THE INDABOSKI PAHOSE. Prophet Odumeje has undoubtedly shown how religion could drift from moral ideologies to a social enterprise with a plenitude of comedy. The controversial Onitsha-based clergyman, whose real name is Chukwuemeka Ohanaemere, has been the centre of attention on social media in recent times on account of his rather unorthodox and unapologetic approach to his pastoral calling as well as the shared values of the Christian doctrine in their entirety. For a former leather businessman who reportedly abandoned his venture after receiving “divine call” to become a pastor, Ohanaemere seems to think he’s far beyond his peers, gaining the audience of even celebrities while delivering sermons at his Mountain of Holy Ghost Intervention Deliverance Ministry. Clips portraying Odumeje in mesmerising acrobatics that hold audiences captive in serial releases of theatrics rarely typical of churches are all over the media. Yet, he is also renowned for a number of other attributes that have left worshipers questioning the motives of other Nigerian clergymen. ‘Indaboski’ and the trend of self-veneration Unlike what is seen among many other pastors and religious institutions, Odumeje has earned himself names that have often accrued to his sudden self-venerative speeches during both sermons and social settings that had required his presence, to the amusement of many Nigerians. At a social function, Odumeje was captured throwing around wands of cash at attendees while an Igbo man followed behind, hailing the clergyman with expressions that translated, “My father (referring to Odumeje) has it. He brought us money. He’s up to the task. He’s such a handsome man.” In another clip he said partly in Igbo: “I’m the one they call the liquid metal, the air that can be seen. Don’t you see it? Didn’t you hear? All the lion family, if it hits you, you give way so others can be hit. Don’t be stubborn when you’re touched. Give way so others can be touched as well”. Odumeje and secular music during service Anyone who practices Christianity in Nigeria would readily attest to how unusual it can be to play secular music in church, let alone dance to it near the holy sanctuary during service. But video clips have surfaced on social media where Odumeje can be seen doing the ‘zanku’ dancenewsbrokersng.blogspot.com, a popular Afropop move typical of Zlatan Ibile. After this had prompted heated criticism from Nigerians, who immediately described Odumeje as being a “money-inclined show maker” rather than a pastor, the clergyman would later take to the podium to declare himself a “coat of many colours” while referring to his critics as noisemakers. “I am not a man of story. I have evidences. When you say I am a show maker, then you bring to me your evidences that make you to be better than me. You’re just a noisemaker! I play but my joke is too dangelous. I smile but my smiling is too dangerlous. I am coat of many corours" he said. .

LET ME TELL YOU A LITTLE ABOUT THE INDABOSKI PAHOSE.

Prophet Odumeje has undoubtedly shown how religion could drift from moral ideologies to a social enterprise with a plenitude of comedy.

The controversial Onitsha-based clergyman, whose real name is Chukwuemeka Ohanaemere, has been the centre of attention on social media in recent times on account of his rather unorthodox and unapologetic approach to his pastoral calling as well as the shared values of the Christian doctrine in their entirety.

For a former leather businessman who reportedly abandoned his venture after receiving “divine call” to become a pastor, Ohanaemere seems to think he’s far beyond his peers, gaining the audience of even celebrities while delivering sermons at his Mountain of Holy Ghost Intervention Deliverance Ministry.

Clips portraying Odumeje in mesmerising acrobatics that hold audiences captive in serial releases of theatrics rarely typical of churches are all over the media. Yet, he is also renowned for a number of other attributes that have left worshipers questioning the motives of other Nigerian clergymen.

‘Indaboski’ and the trend of self-veneration

Unlike what is seen among many other pastors and religious institutions, Odumeje has earned himself names that have often accrued to his sudden self-venerative speeches during both sermons and social settings that had required his presence, to the amusement of many Nigerians.

At a social function, Odumeje was captured throwing around wands of cash at attendees while an Igbo man followed behind, hailing the clergyman with expressions that translated, “My father (referring to Odumeje) has it. He brought us money. He’s up to the task. He’s such a handsome man.”

In another clip he said partly in Igbo: “I’m the one they call the liquid metal, the air that can be seen. Don’t you see it? Didn’t you hear? All the lion family, if it hits you, you give way so others can be hit. Don’t be stubborn when you’re touched. Give way so others can be touched as well”.

Odumeje and secular music during service

Anyone who practices Christianity in Nigeria would readily attest to how unusual it can be to play secular music in church, let alone dance to it near the holy sanctuary during service. But video clips have surfaced on social media where Odumeje can be seen doing the ‘zanku’ dancenewsbrokersng.blogspot.com, a popular Afropop move typical of Zlatan Ibile.

After this had prompted heated criticism from Nigerians, who immediately described Odumeje as being a “money-inclined show maker” rather than a pastor, the clergyman would later take to the podium to declare himself a “coat of many colours” while referring to his critics as noisemakers.

“I am not a man of story. I have evidences. When you say I am a show maker, then you bring to me your evidences that make you to be better than me. You’re just a noisemaker! I play but my joke is too dangelous. I smile but my smiling is too dangerlous. I am coat of many corours" he said.

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