By Olayinka Latona
The leadership of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) has defended Pastor Enoch Adeboye’s recent comments on Nigeria’s security situation, insisting the General Overseer was calling for greater accountability rather than absolving the government of responsibility.
In a statement titled “Pastor Adeboye Deserves Fair Hearing, Not Unfair Criticism,” the Continental Overseer of RCCG Continent 3, Pastor Johnson Odesola, said many Nigerians had focused on isolated excerpts instead of the substance of Adeboye’s address at the US–Nigeria Faith Heroes Award Gala in Washington, D.C.
“When a wise man points at the moon, only a fool stares at the finger,” Odesola said in the eighth instalment of his series, The Puzzle Called Nigeria, lamenting what he described as the tendency to react to social media clips rather than the full context of the speech.
The controversy followed Adeboye’s remark that “You don’t expect the President to wear khaki and go and fight,” which critics interpreted as a defence of President Bola Tinubu’s handling of worsening insecurity.
