Chris Oyakhilome’s new church

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The Twitter account of the President of Believers’ Loveworld, Rev. Chris Oyakhilome, has continued to deplete in terms of following.

But the cleric may have found a replacement for Twitter. His page on Yookos, another social networking site, is doing exactly what Twitter was doing for the pastor years back, or even more.

As of May 14, Oyakhilome’s Twitter following was1.36 million. Between that date and Thursday, it lost about 140,000 to stand at 1.22 million as of Thursday.

Oyakhilome was the most followed Nigerian on the micro-blogging site until last year when he lost that position to Ayo Balogun (popularly known as Wizkid) whose community has crossed 1.6 million followers.   

While Oyakhilome has not benefited from the recent increase in Nigeria’s Twitter activities, his following on Yookos is growing very fast.

Nowadays, his Twitter followers can only relate with links which are routed to Yookos.

Since May 7, 2014, the cleric has not shared content on Twitter save his Yookos’s posts – yookos.com/community/pastorchrislive.

What does he do on the alternative site? He preaches, announces prayer appointments and harvests testimonies/prayer points. While his popularity on Yookos has been growing, recording thousands of views per post, those who follows him on Twitter are left in the cold

In fact, Yookos has become Oyakhilome’s new virtual church, replacing the place of its sensational television broadcast. Comments on his home page on Thursday were 30,009.

On August 14, he posted on the platform, “In both 15min sessions at 12noon and 10pm (local/GMT), we will pray in the spirit, testifying according to this scripture that we have overcome all satanic forces and activities.

“Declare that you walk victoriously through life and in all circumstances. Pray also for fellow Christians around the world that they would continually increase in the knowledge and wisdom of God’s word.”

As of Thursday, the post had attracted over 4,500 views and several responses. Comments streaming on the page daily are testimonies and prayer requests. 

His counterpart at the Household of God of God Church, Rev. Chris Okotie, stopped updating his Twitter page when the platform was beginning to attract attention.

 

For instance, in the height of Boko Haram bombing earlier this year, Okotie tweeted suggesting what former President Goodluck Jonathan should have done differently to win the war against Boko Haram.

“You don’t keep a failed group of war commanders when your troops are being routed on every front, and territories lost almost on a daily basis.

 “There are Boko Haram sympathisers in political parties, military, intelligence services and government. Therein lays our failure to win this war. Yakubu Gowon led federal forces to overcome Biafra in 30 months because he had behind him a cohesive administration and competent war machinery.

“Goodluck Jonathan, who has neither a strong war machinery nor a loyal cohesive administration behind him need to look at Gowon’s template in this terror war,” he tweeted.

Also, Okotie was among the few clerics that took to Facebook to demand Jonathan’ withdrawal from the presidential race, saying his preoccupation should have been how to strengthen the economy and end the uprising in the North-East.

Today, Okotie rarely tweets or updates his Facebook page. The last time he tweeted was July 13, and it was a motivational post.