Enoch Adeboye, general overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), says the picture showing him carrying a placard was a prayer walk organised during the administration of late former President Muhammadu Buhari.
Speaking during RCCG thanksgiving service on Sunday, Adeboye
said he was described as a wicked man when the picture was misrepresented as a
protest against former President Goodluck Jonathan.
The cleric said the 2020 prayer walk was an initiative of
the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) and that it was five years after the
administration of Jonathan.
Abeboye said many Nigerians believed the claim that he
protested during the administration of Jonathan.
“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,’” he said.
“And everybody said yes. They brought out the picture of
where I was dressed in white and green carrying a placard and everybody said
see him. When I heard about it, I said, ‘me, I carried a placard against
Jonathan?’
“True, I carried a placard. I can’t deny that. It was not a
protest, it was a prayer walk. We wanted to pray.
“The CAN chairman said all churches should do a prayer walk
near their churches. That’s what I did in Ebute Metta.
“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.”
Recalling his experience in the university, the cleric
recounted his exposure to journalism studies and how he was taught about the
act of verification of information before publication.
Abeboye said the journalist “twisted” the 2020 prayer walk
and misrepresented it as 2015 without proper verification.
“A journalist twisted it. I said, I did what I did in 2015.
And everybody swallowed it,” the cleric said.
In February 2020, the cleric led a demonstration with
members of the RCCG against insecurity in the country.
Late Buhari was Nigeria’s president in 2020.
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