According to Akinola, Nigerian bishops had not “fully decided” on whether they would attend.
“At present, the Anglican Church is so divided. There is so much distrust and disrespect. Even basic courtesies are lacking among the bishops.
“What kind of communion do you have when you have bishops from all over the world coming together and you cannot even have fellowship or share the Lord’s Supper?” he asked
“What we are doing now is to tell the authorities in Lambeth Palace (Archbishop of Canterbury) the conditions that must be met if we are to attend.
“The first condition is that all bishops in Nigeria must be invited because, as it is now, they have excluded one bishop.
“We have told them that failure to invite any of our bishops is failure to invite all of us because that one bishop did not make himself a bishop,” he said.
Saying that the cost of sponsoring Nigeria’s 130 bishops and their wives to London for the one-month conference was enormous, Akinola said there was no need to go there for “jamboree.”
Right now, I’d lay even odds on both Martyn Minns and Gene Robinson being invited to Lambeth.