In an uncharacteristic manner, the General Overseer of The Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), Pastor Enoch Adeboye, has faulted the economic policies of President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration.
Speaking during the church’s November Holy Ghost Service on Friday night, Adeboye decried the diminishing purchasing power of the naira.
He equally criticised the planned redesign of the N200, N500, and N1,000 banknotes by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), saying the Federal Government was more concerned about the redesign of the currency rather than its rapidly falling value.
“You know what’s going on in our country. It doesn’t even make sense anymore. Our naira now is not even worth the paper it is printed on,” the octogenarian said at the programme held at RCCG’s international headquarters along the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway.
“And while people are hungry, trying to find enough money to buy bread to eat, our bosses are thinking of making the naira more beautiful, even if it can’t buy bread, at least, it will look beautiful. Oh Lord, have mercy,” Adeboye added.
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Adeboye said that Nigeria’s situation was getting funnier by the day and laughter is the citizens’ only coping mechanism.
“We have problems in the land now. Things seem to be getting funnier and funnier. If you don’t learn to laugh in Nigeria now, you will develop hypertension,” he said.
Adeboye further stated that God has not told him if the 2023 general election would hold or not.
“Do you know that up till now, and this is November, up till now, Daddy (God) hasn’t told me yet that there is going to be an election next year?
“We continue of course as if there is going to be. I am saying that Adeboye, I am not talking of other people, God has not told me yet. The yet must be in capital (letters). He may tell me tomorrow; I don’t know but as of this moment, he hasn’t told whether or not there will be an election next year.
“I am not trying to frighten you. I am not a prophet, I am just a pastor,” he said.
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