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Akinwande Soji-Ojo
The General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), Pastor Enoch Adeboye, has replied the people who criticised him for not stopping Pastor Ghandi Afolabi Olaoye from vying for the Soun of Ogbomoso stool.
While speaking at Baptist Conference Beulah Centre in Ogbomoso, venue of the interdenominational thanksgiving service for the new Soun on Sunday, Pastor Adeboye said he knew Oba Played was born to be a king.
According to the General Overseer, when he (Olaoye) came to inform him about the development, he told him to go and pray.
“He came back and said he has not heard anything, I told him to go back and pray again. After a while, he came back and told me God has spoken, ‘I have heard him loud and clear that I should go.’ It was then that I told him to go because it has been destined, I knew that long ago but I want God to speak to him directly.
“To my critics, if I said no and God said yes, whose word is the final? God of course. So, I cannot stop him because Pastor Ghandi Olaoye was destined to be a king even before he was born and thank God it is coming into fruition,” the cleric said.
While counselling the monarch, Pastor Adeboye, who took his sermon from Act ls 15 :18, urged Oba Olaoye to embrace people and promote peace and unity among his subjects.
The General Overseer annointed the king and his wife and prayed for his peaceful and prosperous reign as Soun.
Addressing the congregation, Oba Olaoye described the RCCG General Overseer as his spiritual role model.
“Pastor Adeboye has been a father to me. It is an unforgivable sin if you report me to Pastor Adeboye; I don’t like people reporting me to Pastor Adeboye
“We have travelled the whole world together and I have watched him closely and I see a genuine man of God.
“I am happy today that the person who laid a hand on me to become a pastor is the same who annointed me when I became king.
“To my people in Ogbomoso, let us work together, let us develop this land and let us make this land a place where our sons and daughters will be proud of. I believe it is a new dawn for Ogbomoso.
“I will be the king to the Chritsians, Muslims and traditional rulers. I will be king to every sons and daughters of this land, that is my strength and I believe that God will bless me with His mercy to lead his people. I want everybody in this land to pray for me so that I would live aright,” the monarch said.
Special prayers were also offered by President, Nigerian Baptist Convention, Rev Israel Akanji; Bishop Titus Olayinka, Archbishop Ayo Ladigbolu, Pastor J.S. Adegoke, Rev Solomon Ademola Isola; former President of the seminary, Professor Nihinlola Emiola; Rev Stephen Ola Ayankeye, Rev Moradeyo Titus Olayinka/ Bishop of Anglican Church, Rev Johnson Adeniji; Prophet Akintola, Baba Awoye among others