BY LEVI JOHNSON
Pastor Sunday Adelaja, a Nigerian pastor based in Kyiv, Ukraine has said that he was on President Vladimir Putin list of people for elimination, adding that the knowledge of it made him and his family left Kyiv immediately.
Adelaja, said he and his family fled the war-wracked capital city of Ukraine, to avoid being eliminated by Russian forces who have a list of influential people as targets.
The founder of the Embassy of the Blessed Kingdom of God for all Nations made the revelation in a video post on his verified Facebook page on Saturday.
He said, “This is the first time I and my family have been able to have a place to put our heads in the last 48 hours. We’ve been travelling, sometimes we walk, sometimes we run, sometimes we are in a car, sometimes we are in a long queue of people who want to escape from Ukraine.
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“I wanted to stay back and send my wife to get out of the country but I got an information two days ago that in a few days, the Russians will enter Kyiv.
“From the American intelligence, we got to know that they have a list of people for elimination. These are not ordinary but influential people who have public opinion and that I am on the list.
“I know that I am on the list because I was already a persona non grata in Russia since 2005. I have been a personal enemy of Vladimir Putin for close to 20 years now. He banned me from going to Russia, so I know I would be on the list.”
Many parts of Ukraine have come under attack from and some taken over by Russian land, air and sea forces, with the Ukrainian military putting up spirited efforts to defend Kyiv.
Nigerians in Ukraine are desperate to be evacuated out of the Eastern European country with Russian bombs dropping mostly on the two major cities of Kyiv and Kharkiv where many Nigerians live.
