page_title: Chris Okotie
section_title: Presidential runs
hierarchical_section_title: Chris Okotie / Presidential runs
caption_attribution_description: English: Taken during his 2011 press conference with journalists in Lagos
context_page_description: Christopher Oghenebrorie Okotie is a Nigerian televangelist and the pastor of the Household of God Church International Ministries, a Pentecostal congregation in Lagos since February 1987.
context_section_description: Okotie first ran for the President under the banner of the Justice Party (JP), led by Ralph Obiorah after he was schemed out of the National Democratic Party (NDP) primaries elections; he lost to Olusegun Obasanjo in the May 2003 elections. He ran again in 2007 on the platform of a party he founded, Fresh Democratic party, FRESH and lost to Umaru Yar'Adua in the May 2007 elections. Then in 2011, he ran and lost to the President Goodluck Jonathan.
caption: Okotie speaking at a press conference in 2011, Lagos
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