I didn’t carry placard in protest in opposition to Jonathan – Pastor Adeboye

he General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Pastor Enoch Adeboye, has dismissed viral media stories claiming he staged a protest in opposition to former President Goodluck Jonathan throughout his administration.

Addressing his congregation throughout a sermon this morning, November 1, Adeboye clarified that the occasion in query happened in 2020—a full 5 years after Jonathan left workplace in 2015. He maintained that the procession was strictly a religious intervention geared toward combating the extreme insecurity and bloodshed plaguing the nation.

The cleric lamented that the misrepresentation has unjustly painted him as a malicious actor who intentionally focused the previous president.

He additional expressed disappointment that the false narrative was broadly circulated and accepted by the general public with none journalistic verification of the particular timeline and context

“Recently, just one mischievous somebody wrote in the papers, or said somehow, ‘Pastor Adeboye is a very wicked man. After all, we know that not too long ago, he carried a placard against President Goodluck Jonathan.

“True, I carried a placard. I can’t deny that. It was important. It was a prayer walk. We wanted to pray,” he stated.

Explaining the origin of the occasion, the clergyman famous that the demonstration was carried out in compliance with a collective directive issued to varied Christian denominations.

“The chairman said all churches should do a prayer walk near their churches. That’s what I did,” he stated.

The normal overseer identified that the precise date of the stroll utterly invalidates the narrative that his actions have been directed on the Jonathan administration.

“But I carried the placard in 2020. Jonathan ceased to be president in 2015. I carried the placard five years in the second term of Buhari,” Adeboye stated

He strongly rebuked the reporter chargeable for distorting the timeline and criticized the media’s failure to conduct primary fact-checking earlier than working the story.

“But a journalist twisted it. I said, I did what I did in 2015. And everybody swallowed it,” he stated.

On February 2, 2020, Adeboye led tens of millions of RCCG members in a peaceable stroll throughout Lagos to protest the relentless killings and insecurity in Nigeria. The religious train was a part of a company declaration by the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), which referred to as for a three-day fasting interval ending in a nationwide prayer stroll in opposition to terror.

Watch a video of him talking in church this morning beneath