The General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), Pastor E.A. Adeboye has debunked the insinuation that he has anointed any candidate as successor to President Muhammadu Buhari in the 2023 general election.
The 80-year Old cleric who spoke during the church monthly thanksgiving message on Sunday, 03 April 2022 said he doesn’t know yet if their will be a general election in 2023.
Adeboye said the clarification was important amid the criticisms against the church’s creation of a Politics Directorate and the instruction to members to be politically involved in the 2023 electioneering process.
According to him, he remains a father to all the aspirants coming up on the platforms of all the political parties in the country maintaining that and it would be unjust to anoint a particular candidate.
Pastor Adeboye told his congregation that he is yet to hear from God that there would be elections in 2023, believing that why God has not spoken to him is because of the need to resolve many national issues in the country.
He said God spoke to him about the 2019 elections more than a year to the election but the case has not been so with the 2023 election.
Adeboye said, “Listen to me carefully and if you are going to quote me, quote me correctly. I am talking to those of you who are my children. Do you want to know the truth? And nothing but the truth? I am talking of myself now.
“As of now, as I am standing before you, I still don’t know whether or not there would be an election next year. Don’t say that Pastor Adeboye said there would be no election next year; that’s not what I said. Adeboye does not know yet, put the word ‘yet’.
“How come you don’t know? Because my father has not talked to me about it yet. The last time we had an election, He (God) spoke to me about the election by June of the previous year and this is April. So, it is not late but He hasn’t told me yet.”
However, he urged his listeners to obtain voter’s cards to be able to exercise their voting rights during forthcoming elections.
