General overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), Pastor Enoch Adeboye, has said the picture depicting him carrying a placard against former president Goodluck Jonathan, was a prayer walk organised during the administration of late former President Muhammadu Buhari.
Speaking during RCCG thanksgiving service on Sunday, Pastor Adeboye said he was called a wicked man when the picture was misrepresented as a protest against former President Goodluck Jonathan.
The revered cleric stated that the 2020 prayer walk was an initiative of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) and that it came after five years after the administration of Jonathan.
Abeboye stated that 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.”
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.
