Source: Global News
The Bible states in the
Gospel According to St. Luke: “From now on five members in one household will
be divided, three against two and two against three…” And truly this quickly
manifesting in the once very happy household of God in the Redeemed Christian
Church of God (RCCG) as pastors of the church have for some time now been
waging war against their general overseer, Pastor Enoch Adejare Adeboye,
(generally called Daddy GO by most Nigerian Christians), over his stance on
some issues in the church.
Some
years back when the pastors of the church were becoming prominent in the
news for all the wrong reasons like fraud, extra-marital affairs and all sorts
of things not befitting the church, the GO was said to have suggested to them
in a pastors’ meeting that they should together swear to God that they would
not delve into such things, but it was alleged that the pastors refused to take
the decision and this it was, according to sources, the reason the man of God
decided to take a hard stance on pastors of the church engaging in activities
that will drag the name of the church in the mud again.
His
decision we gathered has not gone down well with the pastors who have since
been planning to get rid of the GO for not allowing them engage in activities
they feel will fetch them money using the name of the church. Their first plot,
we gathered, was hatched when they collectively planned that any pastor of the
church that has attained 70 years of age should retire, a plan they thought
would force them to retire the man of God whose 70th birthday was just a few
years then. This Pastor Adeboye had wisely resisted when he instructed them
that he would only retire when God asks him to and that nobody but God can
instruct him otherwise.
This
further angered the set of pastors who want him out at all cost, but they were
unable to powerfully enforce such law on him because they knew the church
members would lynch them should they attempt to use force and it was because of
this that they decided to employ other strategies that ranged from poisoning to
employing the use of charms just for him to leave his position as the head of
the RCCG.
News
of different attempts on his life has for some time now been well reported; the
use of charms was at different occasions employed. One of them involved one of
the pastors close to him leading to the sack of the said pastor. A close source
revealed that early this year the GO escaped bomb attack, the bomb which was
sent to him in a letter. The saving grace was that in the process of moving the
locally made bomb it was exposed to the extent that it arrived his table wet
and had lost its potency. All the happened was the bomb just releasing fumes
just like a wet fire-cracker.
The
various attempts have further been emboldening the man of God whose church has
been the target of newshounds lately due to many escapades of his pastors. It
got to a stage where Pastor Adeboye decided to place a curse on anybody who
will do anything to drag the name of the church in the mud.
Though
the negative activities of the pastors are not as pronounced as before, sources
revealed they are still unrepentant about their attitude to issues and this has
kept the church in bad light for a long time. Not too long ago, some pastors of
the church were said to have demanded money from contractors who were executing
a construction work for the church at a site in Yaba area of Lagos. In another
development, some pastors of the church were said to have hired some thugs to
disrupt construction works on the site of the church mega auditorium just to
demand for additional money from the church for lands that have been bought and
paid for. The villagers had to publicly dissociate themselves from the
activities of the hired thugs.
Despite
all their efforts, most of them have decided to work underground for fear of
becoming victims of the curse of the Man of God.
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