File: Pastor Enoch Adeboye
The Continental Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Continent 3, Pastor Johnson Odesola, has defended comments made by the church’s General Overseer, Pastor Enoch Adeboye, saying they were misinterpreted and unfairly portrayed as a defence of President Bola Tinubu over the country’s insecurity.
In a statement titled, “Pastor Adeboye Deserves Fair Hearing, Not Unfair Criticism,” Odesola said many critics relied on short social media clips instead of listening to the cleric’s complete remarks delivered at the US-Nigeria Faith Heroes Award Gala in Washington, D.C.
According to him, Adeboye never denied that insecurity had worsened in the country but acknowledged that terrorism, banditry and kidnapping had spread beyond the North into several parts of the South.
Odesola argued that the cleric’s remark that Nigerians should not expect the President to “wear khaki and go and fight” was merely an explanation of the constitutional role of a Commander-in-Chief and not an attempt to excuse government shortcomings.
