A Nigerian cleric, Anderson Chinenye, has been reported to have allegedly come back to life after he was declared dead in a hospital. Local reports claim that the pastor had been reported to have died but woke up again at the mortuary in Abia State.

It was reported that Chinenye underwent an operation at the Federal Medical Center (FMC) in Umuahia, Abia state capital following heart issues and was said to have given up the ghost afterwards

The pastor was allegedly certified dead by the doctors yesterday morning and was about being deposited at the mortuary before “waking” up this morning according to reports.

His church members and friends have taken to Facebook to celebrate his ‘return to the land of the living’.