Indications emerged on Tuesday that the Founder and President of the Gospel Apostolic Church, Pa Samuel Sadela, has passed on.

He was aged 114.

Although a senior pastor in the church reportedly claimed that the man described as one of Nigeria’s oldest pastors could still be receiving treatment in a hospital, he was said to have died in the premises of the church in Lagos.

As of the time of this report at 9.15pm press time on Tuesday, an official statement was still being awaited even as the church was said to have opened a condolence register for the man of God who remained sensational even as a very old man.

Sadela was of the Apostolic stock of Christianity.

His pastoral calling started in 1928 when he visited the famous Prophet Moses Orimolade of the Cherubim and Seraphim Church.

When he marked his 113th last year birthday, the aged pastor had expressed hope to live up to 200 years of age.

He had said “I feel happy to be this old. Actually, I feel like a young man. I still enjoy my meal of Iyan (pounded yam), Eba and bush meat. I sleep whenever I want to and wake up stronger I want to live longer to prove to all that God remains the same as He was in times past. If Methuselah could live for 969 years, God can make me live well beyond 113. If Noah could be 950, it is not too much for Him to make me live up to 200.”

Even if that wish was not granted, Sadela left an indelible imprint in the hearts of his members and admirers around the world.

The cleric, who claimed angels taught him to read the Holy Bible when he was only two years of age, raised not a few eye brows when he married a 30-year-old woman in 2007.

“The Lord is my strength. I am very strong and energetic,” he was quoted as saying after the wedding in Lagos.

According to reports, he first got married in 1934, with the marriage lasting for 21 years, but none of the couple’s seven children reportedly lived beyond their infancy. A second marriage, said to have been consummated in 1965, was blessed with four children, but only two survived. His second wife died in 2001.

A native of Ondo State, Sadela attended St. Paul’s Anglican Primary School, Ifon, Osun State, but had to drop out when he travelled to Sapele, Delta State to work as houseboy to one Captain Pullen, a District Officer. Sadela however retraced his steps in 1918 and completed his Standard six education in 1920.

Meanwhile, reactions from clerics have greeted his death. The Osun State Chairman, Christian Association of Nigeria, Rev. Elisha Ogundiya, in a phone interview with our correspondent, expressed shock at Sadela’s passing.

He prayed that God, ‘will comfort his family.’

Similarly, the founder of Christ Overcomer’s Assembly, Rev. Dipo Filani, described Sadela as a highly respected man of God.

“He was one of the oldest pastors alive in Nigeria. There was a time he said miracles started taking place in his ministry when he was 90 years.



Source: www.punchng.com/news/nigerias-oldest-pastor-samuel-sadela-dies-at-114/

Rip

May God Rest His Soul. He was a true man of God. Very Humble and Honest to a fault. I admired him a lot.
@114yrs and was still preaching and dancing. The last man in Nigeria who witnessed and told us how Lord Lugard created this Mess we are in Nigeria @ amalgamation !

Translated to Higher glory indeed!

He don try... very old in d game

Thee cleric, who claimed angels taught him to read the Holy Bible when he was only two years of age,

How? I dont believe

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Bros,
Abeg wait ooo, i wan ask you a question!

is your stupidity hereditary or self-inflicted?

So you derive joy in scaming people abi?
People like you are reasons why i still clamour for human sacrifice.

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Sleep on daddy Sadela, a o pade leti odo Jodani...

You have left a great mark behind. Continue to rest until the morning of Resurrection.

Odabo, Odigba, Odigbere, Odigba ose…

RIP pa sadela

RIP Baba Sadela.

Rev. Samuel Akinbode Sadela you supposed to have waited till 31st of August when we will celebrate ur 114th birthday to see those things we've planed for you on ur day but God knows the best. Rip baba

Chai prophetic library is gone...

rip

one of the few that didnt give people fake prophecy and deliverance just to make name.

One of the few that didnt use big big grammar to get fame all around the nation instead of preaching the word.

One of the few that didnt change wife used sanitary pads.

One of the few that didnt enrich himself with people's hard earn money in the form of offerings and tithes.

One of the few that didnt use relaxer on his hair.

One of the few that walked with his feet in stead of acquiring multiple privaye jets.

One of the that didnt use church tithes to build schools yet only the rich attends the schools at the detriments of the original payer.

One of the few that didnot sell holy water from N5000 and above.

Even at his age, i didnt see where he was refer to as ''daddy or papa''

rip once more.

R.I.P Sire

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You still dey learn.
You no even sabi english sef

I met Baba firstly 2005 at the National stadium and last in 2007 at the TBS, when he just got married and wrote a book, Life begins at 107. he was 107 years old in 2007

He lived an exemplary life, that's why he lived long.

May his soul rest in perfect peace

what? 114?

Oldest person in the world is currently 115.

In all honesty, i do not wish to live over 100 years.

So old, I mean too old.

grand pa sorry......chai one of my kind.

R.I.P

That reminds me, Pastor Adeboye was holding a placard yesterday thanking fans for 2million facebook like + Photos HERE

he ain't dead ..he's sleepinq

dat a lie come and meet one pastor in our area who died at d age of 260years last week.

Rest in peace sir.

papa r.i.p. U try for life.

RIP Pa Sadela

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sadly people will still be gullible enough to believe you and call your number. SMH for ignorance.

REST IN PEACE BABA SADELA
wish other pastors were more like u.

Guinness Book of Records need to look more into Africa before world record are bestowed on any living on earth.

RIP papa.