In the 1959 declaration, he proclaimed that, “I am He. I am Jesus Christ, the very one whose second coning was foretold in the New Testament. I have come and those who believe in me will have an everlasting life and joy. I am the missing of the trinity. I have come to prepare the faithful for the judgment day.”

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As a result of its proximity to the market, the membership of Jesu Oyingbo’s church, the Universal College of Regeneration (UCR), witnessed a huge upsurge in numbers. And, to induct new male members, Immanuel would whip them with a cane nine times each. Presumably, this was a cane inherited from his traditional herbalist grandfather, Joseph Odumosu.


Immanuel Olufunmilayo Odumosu later relocated from his well known abode and place of worship centre in Oyingbo to Maryland in Ikeja, Lagos, but the name Jesu Oyingbo stuck to him. In Maryland, he was still Jesu Oyingbo, and all the adherents of his religious faith continued to live a communal life in an enclave, which had nursery, primary and secondary schools.

There were numerous wives, as much as about 80, according to some accounts. The long drawn out legal tussles saw the sprawling estate become hideouts for urchins and criminals, and tenants of his properties, who were as many as 2,000, refused to pay their rents. The empire, which some of his adherents believed would resurrect in 1998, 10 years after the demise of Jesu Oyingbo, failed to resurrect.

Jesu ti mo mo apata ayeraye

Hitler007:
Jesu ti mo mo apata ayeraye

So long as your apata comes from the doctrines and traditions of your pastors and mogs, your Jesu that you know is no better than this man here.

Kobojunkie:
So long as your apata comes from the doctrines and traditions of your pastors and mogs, your Jesu that you know is no better than this man here.

Chai... Vawulence!