Yemi Osinbajo
The
General Overseer of the Redeemed Christians Church of God, Pastor
Adeboye and his wife, were consulted before Yemi Osinbajo accepted to be
Nigeria's vice president.
While speaking on Tuesday, the Acting President, Yemi Osinbajo,
said that the General Overseer of the Redeemed Christians Church of God
(RCCG), Pastor Enoch Adeboye and his wife, Dolapo, were the two persons
he consulted before accepting to serve as the country’s Vice President
in 2015.
Osinbajo said he consultation, he disclosed tallied with that of
the former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, who also said that the
highly revered man of God was among the three persons that were
consulted before he accepted to join in the 1999 presidential election.
The acting president in his perspective of the man Adeoye: His life
and calling at the public presentation of a book: Pastor E.A Adeboye:
His Life and Calling said that because he was not a politician when the
opportunity came, only two persons were in his mind to get their
consent.
“And those two were my wife and Daddy G.O. Over the years,
Daddy had been instrumental factor to my spiritual growth. Just like
Baba Obasanjo, I consulted Daddy and gave the go-ahead to accept the VP
position, before then, I was not a politician,” he said.
The acting president noted that RCCG was the only Church that has
been able to pull the largest gathering at a convention in the world,
saying; “Apart from Coca-cola, the Church is next in mileage across
the world. And it all has to do with sincerity, dedication and humility
of Daddy G.O,” Osinbajo disclosed.
Earlier, Obasanjo who was the chairman at the occasion, described
Adeboye as a man who had touched more lives than the politicians in the
country, adding that RCCG leader’s spiritual prowess personally
influenced his life.
According to the former President, as a politician, "we are
supposed to touch lives, but, for Pastor Adeboye, he has touched more
lives than politicians. He has been a man of God with a difference, whom
I benefited from personally when I was consulting to contest the 1999
election.”
Wife of Pastor Adeboye, Folu, said that the book being launched was produced without the knowledge of her husband, “because it is part of the year of surprises we are going to be having.”
She acknowledged the role played by the 40 authors in ensuring that the publication was near perfect, “because only God can be perfect,” she said.
Adeboye in his contribution said that he must have been kept away
from the programme for a purpose and that God did not reveal anything to
him on it, because if he was foretold, he would not have approved of
it.
"And the reason is simple, who should be celebrated? Me or the
person who sent me on the message? Anyway, just like Baba (Obasanjo) had
requested, I forgive you all,” Adeboye said.
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