Nigeria’s richest pastor and Winners’ Chapel founder, David Oyedepo,
flaunts a vast business empire worth billions of naira. And there is no
end to his material acquisitions. To thousands of his devotees, David Olaniyi Oyedepo, billionaire
businessman and presiding bishop at the Living Faith Church, better
known as Winners’ Chapel, is a preacher of immense spiritual
endowment. Fondly addressed as Papa by his congregation, Oyedepo is
held in awe – the kind reserved for deities. The cleric’s deistic clout,
however, transcends his Winners’ Chapel enclave. To many outside his fold, the prosperity preacher, who owns homes in
London and the United States, and has been owner of four private jets
so far, is gleaned from his insatiable material bequest. In 2010, Forbes,
the respected American business magazine which keeps a tab on the
world’s rich, listed Oyedepo as Nigeria’s wealthiest pastor, with an
estimated networth of $150mn (about N23bn). Oyedepo is only followed on the rich list by another Nigerian flamboyant pastor, Chris Oyakhilome
of the Believers’ Loveworld Ministries, a.k.a. Christ Embassy, whose
worth was put at between N4.7bn and N7bn. In Nigeria, Oyedepo
conveniently leads the growing list of pastorpreneurs, church founders
exploiting the passion and emotion that Christianity commands to
feather their nests. A proponent of prosperity Christianity, Oyedepo is unapologetic about
the materialistic tinge to his gospel. In taking to ministering, God, he
repeatedly claims, told him to “make my people rich”. He describes his
prosperity-centric teachings as “covenant software for programming
yourself into victories and triumphs”. With abiding faith in God, there are
no limits, he insists, to how prosperous a man can be. And God’s word, he says, is a goldmine. “It is loaded with treasures — treasures for your
pleasure, treasures for your comfort,” he pontificates. Vast Business Interests Oyedepo’s business interests span manufacturing, petrol station,
bakery, pure water factory, plant (bulldozers, etc.) hiring, education,
restaurant, supermarket, bookshop, internet cafe, real estate and the
latest addition, aviation. He owns the thriving Dominion Publishing
House, DPH, which has turned out countless Christian and motivational
literature – usually centred on prosperity – bearing his name as the author, and audio-visual materials. The DPH has more than four million
copies of Oyedepo’s works – many of them bestsellers – and those of
his wife, Faith, in print. The most known of the pastor’s many lines of business are his range of
educational institutions. Most famous among them is the Covenant
University, Ota, where the pastor is the Chancellor. Oyedepo told his
congregation that he encountered God in 1981 in a vision that directed
him to develop humanity through education. The world’s largest church and the universities The move to actualise the “vision” began earnestly in 1999 after the
dedication of the Faith Tabernacle, which he boasts of as the world’s
largest church auditoriums. Funding for the establishment of the
university confirmed Oyedepo as shrewd as the most shrewd of
businessmen come. At every service, a special envelope marked
“CUP” (Covenant University Project) was circulated for members to donate their contributions towards the school project. The CUP funding,
largely from the poor and medium income earners, was exclusive of the
regular handouts in tithes, offerings and ‘seeds’ from the teeming
members and well-wishers. It was also exclusive of other huge
contributions from the affluent church members. Oyedepo, it was
alleged, once received a single donation of N400 million from a well- known Lagos business tycoon with interests in publishing and oil & gas. Oyedepo was assisted in construction of the school’s structures by
many devout members of the church, skilled and unskilled, who fell over
one another either carrying blocks or fetching water or just offering free
labour. The university took off actively in October 2002 with the
admission of the first batch of 1,500 students. But if many of the church
members thought that, by virtue of their financial contributions to the CUP and their manual labour, they had a university they could call their
own and conveniently send their children to for tertiary education, they
were soon rudely awakened. The elitist fees Oyedepo fixed were, and
remain, way beyond what most of the parents can afford. Covenant
University owners currently charge not less than N500,000 for a degree
course. Oyedepo’s apologists maintain that the school administers partial scholarships for education to poor church members, but have
been unable to put such details like the number of students that benefit
and the amount involved, to their claim. An Advertisement manager in a leading magazine publishing firm
narrated that the church continued to circulate the CUP envelope even
after the university had taken off for what it (the church) said was for the
school’s growth and development. For the manager, that was the last
straw. “I stopped my family from attending the church. When the
university was being constructed, my wife was always eager to go all the way from our residence in Akute, Ogun State, to the site in Ota, to
carry blocks even when she was very reluctant to supervise work on our
own site in Akute there. Worse, after the school took off and we were
shown in clear terms it is not built for our children, its owners continued
to ask us to donate to the CUP. I knew it was time I came to my
senses,” he remarked. Although the university authorities are confirmed to have been
accommodating to followers of all religions on admission matters, a
peculiar case last year challenged that virtue. The school allegedly
refused to admit a muslim candidate, Abdulgafar Ayomide Salami,
despite satisfying the admission requirements. The institution blamed
“inconsistencies” in Salami’s application for its action, a claim the candidate’s father, Taiwo, vehemently denied. “They should just be bold
enough to admit it. They discriminated against my child on the basis of
his religion, and that is so unfortunate,” Taiwo fumed. Oyedepo has established another tertiary institution, Landmark
University in Omu-Aran (his hometown) in Kwara State. It officially
opened in March last year. The university is believed to have been built
with the staggering sum of $100m. Oyedepo claimed that the Landmark
initiative was a response to calls from his kinsmen that he replicate the
Covenant model in his hometown. It is most unlikely, however, that many residents of Omu-Aran will be able to afford the fees of the new
university. But Landmark University’s Vice-Chancellor, Professor
Matthew Ola-Rotimi Ajayi’s explanation was that the institution came to
fill the void created by the dwindling standard and paralysis, occasioned
by strikes and social vices, in the public educational system. “The
institution was established in response to these challenges, poised not only to break new grounds, but also to ensure that the institution’s
footprints are left on the sand of time,” said Ajayi. The VC said agriculture is the focal point of the new university. This, he
said, is in demonstration of its commitment to being part of the global
response to the impending food crisis. Specifically, he said, the
university has set, as its primary objective, a commitment towards an
agrarian revolution, making the institution’s farm not only an enviable
centre of excellence, but also the food basket of the country. This, he claimed, prompted the institution, through its proprietor – Winners’
Chapel – to award “100 per cent scholarship” to all the agricultural
students of the institution, including agricultural engineering. To drive the
agricultural revolution, Ajayi claimed, the school is investing hundreds of
millions of naira as scholarships to motivate all the agricultural students
of the institution, while also investing heavily on teaching and research equipment so as to enhance enterprise agriculture training. In addition,
other support services – financial, technical and material – required for
sustainable mechanised farming are also provided for the students. Not unexpectedly, there is an entrepreneurial method to drive the
scholarship ‘madness’. Into the institution is built a thriving farm project
– comprising poultry, fishery, crop farming and feedmill – whose
products are said to be doing well in the market. In response to the
increasing demands of the institution’s products, the university has
embarked on the second phase of its expansion programme on the farm. It has commenced massive production of the Landmark Bread
while plans for production of Landmark bottled water are at an advanced
stage, among other products in the pipeline. As a matter of policy, the
VC said, the entire university community – staff and students –
irrespective of course of study, are engaged in one form of agricultural
practice or the other. A third university, it is believed, will soon become operational in Abuja,
the Federal Capital Territory. It is being located in the expansive 560-
acre Goshen City, a replica of the massive Canaanland at Ota, Ogun
State. The pastor is said to have already completed at Goshen City,
situated along the Abuja-Keffi Road, a multi-billion naira housing project,
a 15,000-capacity sanctuary, a printing press, and primary and secondary schools. Oyedepo is also believed to be planning a multi-
million dollar college in upstate New York, United States. Oyedepo’s massive investment in education at the secondary level is
the Faith Academy group of colleges spread across Nigeria and run by
Faith, his wife. Faith Academy, a full boarding secondary school which
opened in 1999, belongs to the country’s elitist league of middle-level
schools that make parents pay through the nose for services rendered.
The school’s fees range from N250,00 to N350,000. On the Ibadan-Ife road, Faith Academy is currently completing its sprawling complex of
not less than six imposing three-storey buildings. Besides the Faith
Academy secondary schools, Oyedepo has been smart enough to also
establish the Covenant University Secondary School which charges
fees that are no less considerate of the lean finances of Winners’
Chapel’s poor followers. Faith, Oyedepo’s wife, also runs Kingdom Heritage Model Schools, the nursery and primary arm located in different
cities in Nigeria. There are about 90 Kingdom Heritage schools scattered
across the country. Land acquisition binge, tithes and aircraft Oyedepo’s business acumen is well-honed. The expansive landed
property alone on which the Canaan business empire sits is estimated
by estate valuers to be worth, at least, N10 billion. Over time, the pastor
has been acquiring many villages adjoining the original property he
purchased in the 1980s, so much so that now, were the City to be an
ordinary village or town rather than a church monolith that it is, it is big enough to have its own first-class oba, its traditional ruler. As it is, Oyedepo plays well the role of Canaanland’s traditional ruler and
Chief Executive Officer. Church members and workers on the 5,000-
acre estate both rever and fear the 57-year-old Papa as he superintends
the conglomerate of business entities there. The church itself is a
weekly money-spinner. Oyedepo is so shrewd as to concentrate the
Sunday service at only Canaanland. Unlike the Redeemed Christian Church of God, the Living Faith Church (Winners’ Chapel) does not
encourage the flowering of branches, though it equally has thousands of
followers. There is only a handful of branches and then house
fellowships. On Sunday, all Oyedepo’s followers, especially in Lagos
and Ogun states, wishing to attend service are compelled to do so at
Canaanland. From only one service of two hours the church operated every Sunday some years ago, it now runs four services. The Sango-
Ota-Idiroko road as well as other access roads to the expressway
leading to the church experience traffic gridlocks every Sunday from
morning till afternoon as Winners’ faithful populate them. From the thousands of congregants comes a rake-in for the church in
millions of naira and hard currencies, in offerings, tithes and pledges. An
an usher confided in this magazine, the church makes, at least, N30
million every Sunday. And even this sum pales into a measly pittance
compared with what is garnered annually at the church’s Shiloh week-
long special programme held every November attended by devotees in both Nigeria and from abroad, and at every New Year’s eve service. The church also runs a factory which produces the Hebron sachet water.
The product is hot number among church members who view the water
as ‘divine’, and thus believe it could help unburden them of their
afflictions. It also sells well in the immediate Otta environment. Also
operating in Canaanland is a bakery, a filling station, a restaurant, an
internet cafe, a bookshop, supermarkets and a microfinance bank. Oyedepo’s investment in property also continues to grow. On the vast
land, the church has recently completed a massive housing project and
the houses will soon go on sale. Already available are guest houses for
paying church members and guests. Done successfully with medium-scale businesses, the flamboyant
preacher has decided to go for the big one. Last week, reports did the
rounds about the wealthy preacher’s latest addition to his business
lines. The pastor has been reported to have floated an airline, Dominion
Air, on whose board he is to sit as Chairman, as he naturally does of all
his other businesses. An account has it that the airline project had been in the works for six years. The plan was only unfurled this year. Towards
this, a number of aircraft has been acquired, and none of them is said to
be on lease. Another version of the reports, however, claims that the
crippling cost of maintaining his four private jets forced the pastor to set
up an airline where he would put the planes to commercial use. An online news medium with bias for Nigerian news, Saharareporters,
quoted a source in Winners’ Chapel as having said that each of the
aircraft costs Oyedepo some $1,000 per hour in parking fees and
maintenance. “Last year, as staff costs, fuel prices and landing fees
escalated, Bishop Oyedepo had contemplated selling two of the jets.
But when buyers were not forthcoming, he turned to Plan B: to set up Dominion Air and put the jets to commercial use,” claimed the medium. Among Oyedepo’s fleet of jets is a Gulfstream, a business aircraft that
is not capable of carrying more than 19 passengers. Apparently
overwhelmed with the colossal costs of managing four planes, Oyedepo,
had, late last year, reportedly put two of his four private planes up for
sale. That was few months after he acquired the Gulfstream V Jet, his
fourth plane worth $35mn, and planned a private aircraft hangar. Before he acquired the Gulfstream V, Oyedepo owned a Challenger 604 and a
Gulfstream IV. It is thus believed that Oyedepo’s new airline may be
targeting the country’s aviation sector’s lucrative air charter services,
where only a handful of passengers are ferried at princely sums. Charter
services are a staple for the country’s rich, especially business tycoons,
state governors and other top politicians, who prefer its exclusive services to the regular commercial carriers. Oyedepo’s church and
Oyedepo himself would, as has become their trademark of keeping
sealed lips on their dealings, not confirm or deny reports that the bishop
is starting an airline. Flak for the man of God Oyedepo has attracted flak for amassing huge personal fortune using
the church as his springboard, when some of his followers can barely
afford basic supplies, let alone enjoy the luxurious lifestyle he leads. But
the capitalist pastor continues to trudge on, and has been making a
success of his business ventures. Oyedepo’s expanding business frontiers has re-ignited the long-running
debate that places of worship be made to pay taxes to fund critical
public infrastructure, education and healthcare. Going by extant laws, a
church registered as an entity for the advancement of religious ideals is
not expected to pay tax, but where it engages in business, it would be
subject to taxation. “Agreed, Oyedepo is a businessman (and not your everyday pastor). Can we begin to see his taxes and for him to
undertake Corporate Social Responsibility? The next time you think of
taking on MTN for being such cruel capitalists after they invested their
hard-earned cash, try asking how much Covenant University charges
after church money was invested in it,” remarked Atom Lim, a blogger. Since establishing his Pentecostal ministry in 1981, his flock has grown
in astronomical fashion. The 50,000-seat Faith Tabernacle where he
holds court is acclaimed as one the world’s largest worship centres. The
church also maintains thousands of mission stations in about 40 nations
of Africa, Europe, Jamaica and America. Among Oyedepo’s thriving
foreign outposts, which send revenue to the headquarters at Ota, Nigeria are those in Ghana. But in 2004, the high-flying Ghanaian arm of the
church drew Oyedepo’s ire when its head, Bishop George Adjeman was
suspended for discontinuing the remittance of money to the
headquarters. The Ghana parishes were then said to be repatriating to
the Nigerian head church about $60,000 in monthly revenues. Oyedepo’s unconventional pastoring has been attracting to him strident
condemnation and criticisms, although he doesn’t ever seem perturbed
by them. Sources that had worked for him at Canaanland said he does
not suffer staff and pastors gladly. Two years ago, the Newswatch
magazine reported cases of two pastors of the Winners’ Chapel
Oyedepo had allegedly sacked when they could no longer perform their pastoral duties. Three pastors – Akah Ikenna (Benin), Ifeakwachukwu
Sunday (Asaba) and Dick Abiye (Port Harcourt) – were actually said to
have been involved in auto crashes that resulted in disabilities.
According to the magazine’s reports, the pastors of their respective
parishes on N45,000 each per month, were on official assignment for
Winners’ Chapel when the vehicles they were travelling in were involved in the accidents. Sunday, ordained a pastor of the Living Faith Church on 16 January
2001, was serving at Umunede, Delta State, as a pastor of the Winners’
Chapel when his world began collapsing on him. As he narrated to
Newswatch, sometime in 2006, he went to Lagos for a meeting of the
church. On his way back, he had a motor accident that nearly claimed
his life. One of his legs broke into two and he also suffered severe dislocations in the pelvic area. He was admitted in a hospital in Benin
where he went through several surgical operations. One of them was a
limb operation in which steel braces were inserted into the leg and the
pelvis. He was then discharged and asked to come back for a second
operation to remove the foreign objects from his leg and pelvis. But, as
he claimed, the church abandoned him at the hospital in Benin, “but through the help of some brethren, I came back to my station”, bed-
ridden. In that state, Pastor Sunday was redeployed to the church’s district
office at Asaba. Strangely, he got another letter the same day
terminating his appointment as a pastor of Winners’ Chapel. Somehow,
in that agonising condition, Sunday travelled to the church’s
headquarters in Ota, Ogun State, to appeal to Oyedepo for a re-
consideration of his case. He recalled: “Luckily, I met Oyedepo himself as he was coming out from the church. After I had introduced myself, he
asked me what I wanted. I told him I needed money for the operation to
remove the metals from my body. He then directed me to one Ndubuisi
who was then the secretary. Ndubuisi asked me what it would cost and I
told him I did not know till we meet the doctors. He then asked me to go
and do so and get back to them. When I got the documents from the doctors, I went and submitted them to him, but the church never acted
on them.” In one of the documents, dated 13 October 2007, from the Obafemi
Awolowo University Teaching Hospital, OAUTH, Ile-Ife, signed by E.P.
Osaigbovo, consultant, intensivist/traumatologist, and addressed to the
church’s senior Pastor in Asaba, the hospital billed Sunday N230,000.
The letter read: “The aforementioned (Sunday) individual has been our
patient for the past 18 months. He was managed by our surgical team following multiple fractures to the neck and shaft of the femoral bone as
a result of injuries sustained in a road traffic accident. Following-up
radiological evaluation reveals that there is enough callous formation in
the steel-plated fracture. He is, therefore, billed for plate removal – a
procedure that will involve revisiting the fracture site so as to remove
the implants.” A desperate Sunday said he wrote to Oyedepo on 12 August 2009: “I
had written series of letters to you, attached with the medical bill for my
surgery, but all to no avail. I believe the letters did not get to you. From
the time I was relieved of my service to the church, it has not been easy
for me following pains from the injury. Now, I cannot stand for a period
of three minutes, not alone walk. I solicit for your fatherly care. I have nowhere else to turn to but this organisation I once belonged to.” Till
Sunday told Newswatch his story published in the magazine’s 7 July
2010 edition, he never got a response from Oyedepo. Sunday, an employee of the National Fertiliser Company of Nigeria,
NAFCON, Port Harcourt before he resigned his appointment to be a full-
time staff/pastor at Winners’ Chapel, claimed that besides sacking him
and ejecting him from his quarters, the church would not even pay him
his entitlements. He explained he resigned his NAFCON appointment in
line with the church’s policy that a pastor and his wife shall not engage themselves in any other job. Worse, on the domestic front, Sunday’s
wife, both of whom had been childless for over 10 years before the
accident rendered him a vegetable, abandoned him in his bedridden
state. Ikenna’s physical and financial condition is not different. But while
Sunday and Abiye elected to sue Oyedepo in God’s court for God to
judge him, Ikenna headed to court and popular Lagos-based lawyer,
Festus Keyamo, is handling the brief. They won the case at the Otta
High Court. But the defendants, Winners Chapel and Oyedepo, headed
to the Appeal Court. The case has been at the Appeal stage since 2009. Barrister Vitalis, Keyamo’s deputy, expressed confidence Ikenna would
win the case even if it goes up to the Supreme Court because, as he put
it, it was a clear case of man’s inhumanity to man. Oyedepo himself would not immediately respond to enquiries from
Newswatch on the matter. But his spokesmen were quoted to have
retorted in an official statement that: “They were not abandoned. They
were treated on moral ground and in demonstration of good christian
character. The church (Winners’ Chapel) has the right to review its
workers’ performances and release from service any staff it feels his or her services are no longer needed.” It was not until in an interview published in the 11 November 2011
edition of Newswatch that Oyedepo publicly commented on the issue.
His words: “I almost cursed them (i.e. the three pastors). If there is any
case that is serious to take to the court, you go to the court and lawyers
will take charge.” Oyedepo also responded to questions on whether
members truly contributed to build Covenant University and are still contributing. Admitting the contributions, the capitalist pastor remarked:
“Yes, from the offerings that they give. From the offerings that they give
and the supplies that God makes. It’s amazing.” He did not explain the
nature of those celestial “supplies”. And to a question that “those who contributed are not able to send their
children to his university because of the (high) cost’, Oyedepo calmly
contradicted himself on “contributions” he had only minutes earlier
admitted that the church collects from members: “We don’t contribute
here. People give to the Lord,” he stated. Then he added: “But you see,
each one (member) goes for what he can afford in the market (educational market, that is). Even the public schools they are talking
about pay as much, if not more. So people are just making noise for
nothing. It depends on what you can afford.” Oyedepo would also not
point to a single public university that charges “as much, if not more”
than Covenant does. Oyedepo has also had similar brushes with junior pastors at the
church’s headquarters. Two pastors, who once questioned the bishop’s
dictatorial manner of running the entity, had to leave the church to set
up their own ministries. Their complaints ranged from poor welfare, to
the absolute power Oyedepo wields. A number of workers at some of
the business entities set up by the church have also had to complain of the poor remuneration, even though they feel their employers could
afford better pay. One of such workers was a staff in the kitchen of
Faith Academy, the secondary school. On duty from early morning till
6p.m., she was earning N9,000 per month. Apart from paying for public
transportation from her residence to the Winners’ Chapel main gate, she
would need to pay another N100 for the internal transportation arrangement from the main gate to her Faith Academy duty station. She
was always complaining of the laborious nature of the kitchen job, which
demanded that she alone fry eight cartons of fish every day, apart from
other chores. With transportation fare taking so much toll on her miserly
salary, and the kitchen’s labour taking so much toll on her health, she
didn’t need any telling before she walked away from the job only six months after she was enlisted. The Dirty slap video Oyedepo’s controversial ways also achieved international notoriety last
year after a YouTube video showing him slapping a teenage female
worshipper became an internet sensation. During one of the church’s
deliverance services in 2009, Oyedepo had accused the girl of being
possessed with witchcraft, a charge the youngster stoutly rejected. “I
am not a winch; I am a winch for Jesus,” she insisted, on her knees. Oyedepo repeated his “you are a witch” assertion and apparently
expected the girl to quake and submit to his own exact words. But the
girl stuck to her words. Stunned by her guts, the pastor, transferring the
microphone he was holding in his right hand to his left, powerfully hit the
girl’s left cheek with a slap that visibly rocked her, boasting: “Do know
who you’re talking too? ” He then began swearing away at the girl: “Foul demon! You are a foul demon…You are not set for deliverance and you
are free to go to hell.” That drama of what came to be known as “holy slap” elicited criticisms
from many observers, some of whom cracked rude jokes about the
preacher’s unusual methods. But Oyedepo dismissed such criticisms,
saying he didn’t regret his actions. “People now complain on the internet
that I slapped a witch. If I see another one, I’ll slap again,” the pastor
reportedly boasted. The pastor’s unbridled desire for wealth also makes him unpopular with
some other clerics. One of his most vitriolic critics is Tunde Bakare,
pastor of the Latter Rain Assembly and running mate to General (retd.)
Muhammadu Buhari in the 2011 presidential election. Bakare constantly
rebukes prosperity preachers of Oyedepo’s hue, describing them as
“apostates”. He regards them as “only interested in the gospel of wealth”. In a fit of rage, Bakare once publicly tore a book written by
Oyedepo, claiming its contents were contrary to the teachings of Christ. Another notable cleric, Anthony Cardinal Okogie also chided the likes of
Oyedepo for allegedly placing materialism high above the gospel. “You
claim to be a pastor looking after souls. I know you cannot look after the
soul without the body, but why would a pastor give 90 per cent of his
time to the body and give only 10 per cent to the soul. I wonder what
kind of pastors they are?” Okogie queried. According to the Catholic bishop: “That shows really that they are not sheperds of the flock. They
have been skinning the flock, taking out of the milk of the flock”. Though still being kept under the radar, Oyedepo, with his new airline
project, has further invited reproach from a section of the Nigerian
public, who also condemn the preacher’s compulsive desire for wealth.
“Pastor Oyedepo, by his choice of businesses, has severally
demonstrated a disconnect between himself and hundreds of thousands
of poor Christians who he claims to have come to deliver,” said Lawrence Ofili , who belongs to a faction of the opposition movement,
the Save Nigeria Group, founded by Pastor Bakare. Ofili argued that
Oyedepo’s decision to float an airline is a misplaced priority. “His Faith
Tabernacle accommodates 50,000 worshippers every Sunday. How
many of them are going to fly Dominion Air? Honestly this project is not
for the poor. He should have settled for mechanised farming to engage unemployed men and women,” the critic said. Similarly, a blogger, Ofordile Tony-Okeke, in an online post, challenged
Oyedepo to channel more of his material endowment to charitable
ventures. “With about 70 per cent of Nigerians living in poverty, Bishop
Oyedepo would do well to invest financially in the poor in his church and
country. I am aware of what the World Mission Agency, an arm of the
Living Faith Ministry is doing, as it provides welfare and other health and humanitarian services to the needy in the society,” wrote Tony-Okeke.
The blogger, however, argues that the act of giving should never be
enough. “We should give as if all things depend on giving. Bishop David
Oyedepo should give, give and give until it hurts him. That way he will
be doing a sacrifice like Jesus Christ, his mentor, did,” said Tony-
Okeke. While Sunday has become almost a vegetable with a decaying leg and
abandoned by his wife and the church he was serving before the road
traffic accident, Bishop David Oyedepo is harvesting billions of naira
from the church and other business empires he established. While the
church policy doesn’t allow pastors and their wives to do any other job,
Oyedepo, with Faith his wife in tow, is a pastorpreneur extraordinaire. Oyedepo’s business range has no limits. Born on 27 September 1954, Oyedepo began his ministry in May 1981.
On 17 September 1983, Enoch Adeboye, general overseer of the
Redeemed Christian Church of God, ordained him and Florence, now
Faith, his wife, as pastors. He labelled himself a bishop five years later.

I see no human right activist when people are been detained daily by the police for no cause. I see no human right activist saying the truth like Gani Fawhemi. Fighting the goverment when need be. I see no human right activist the government are not observing the duty imposed on them by the constitution. Na for Oyedepo head them want get power. U people better repent or else you will die like mongo park