Final Part
Understanding Public Frustration While Recognizing the Wrong Target: Pastor E.A. Adeboye Is Not Our Problem
No, Pastor Adeboye is not our problem. He speaks.
He spoke in the 1990s.
He spoke in the early 2000s.
He spoke in 2010.
He spoke in 2020.
He spoke in 2025.
He has spoken across administrations, regardless of who governed or governs as President. The real question is:
How many of us were listening?
Did I hear you ask, “What did he say, and when?”
I will share two of the most relevant examples- not only because they are factual, but because they embody the pathway forward for our beleaguered country, if we are finally ready to listen, act, and compel our government to lead the reforms Pastor Adeboye has long advocated.
1. November 2025 - A Direct Public Message to President Tinubu
Contrary to the misinformation circulating online, Pastor Adeboye’s strong message was delivered in November 2025, during the Holy Ghost Service- not this week.
He said:
“You can only advise the Commander‑in‑Chief; you cannot command him. But I’ve tried. God is my witness.”
“Tell our security chiefs to get rid of these terrorists within 90 days or resign.”
He added:
“They must eliminate the terrorists and their sponsors, no matter how influential.”
These are not the words of a passive observer.
These are the words of a citizen - an influential leader - demanding results, accountability, and consequences for failure.
This is the same Pastor Adeboye some are attacking today.
He issued one of the strongest public demands for accountability ever made by a Nigerian religious leader. But how many of us were listening? What did the President do with that message? And what did we do with it?
2. October 1, 2020 - A Public Call for Structural Reform
At a national governance forum co‑organised by the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) and the Nehemiah Leadership Institute to mark Nigeria’s 60th Independence Anniversary, Pastor Adeboye critiqued our dysfunctional governance structure:
“It is ridiculous that a traditional ruler must inform a local government chairman before he travels.”
He went further:
“We all know that we must restructure. It is either we restructure or we break. You don’t have to be a prophet to know that. Now, we don’t want to break up - God forbid.”
He proposed a “United States of Nigeria” - a governance model with a President and a Prime Minister, rooted in institutional effectiveness.
These are not the words of a man indifferent to Nigeria’s future.
Nigeria is structurally dysfunctional. As presently constituted, cycles of elections without correcting the underlying structure will only degrade - but God forbid- collapse this country.
Now that we know - from just two of his many significant public statements that Pastor Adeboye has long been speaking truth to power on the hydra-headed crises that cripple our nation‑building process, the real question becomes:
What are we all now going to do about it?
“Shall these bones live?”
Like Ezekiel in the valley of dry bones, we stand in a moment of national reckoning.
The bones can live - but only if we act.
It is time for Nigerians to let the image of our 2‑year‑old baby held captive by our common enemies galvanize us to collectively rescue that child and through her rescue our nation.
The answer, my compatriots, is in our own hands.
Obiageli “Oby” Ezekwesili
A Mother
June 4, 2026
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Pastor Adeboye emptied the infrastructures of their fellowships in the North East campuses into the IDPs in Borno, Yobe and Adamawa.
When we got to Borno in 2017, we met empty spaces. I wrote a letter to him from Maiduguri, I told him all we needed, running into millions of naira. He sent the money to us. Everything I wrote in the letter was sent. I would write to him every quarter giving him update about all of us in the fellowship and request additional money. He will still send it.😅
I coordinated one of his largest intervention program in Maiduguri. A training and certification course for students in Architecture, Urban planning etc… thousands of students from Ramat Polytechnic, University of Maiduguri etc… it was one of his programs to uplift a society battered by insurgencies and the economy of the state crashed. A program meant to give a future to them by upgrading their skillset.
His greatest strength of not showing off is the reason many people, even his church members do not know 2% of his works.
Good morning distinguished friends.
Another day to remind y'all that I am a full member of Redeem Christian Church of God.
A confident member of Peter obi supporter.
My presidential candidate is Mr Peter obi okwute.
Anyone wey wan die, make them die oo
Ire oo
The ones God will punish the most are the ones abroad who believe Bola Ahmed Tinubu deserves to be president again.
If school teachers, pupils and babies were kidnapped over there, the military would be falling over themselves, the president would've made over 5 press statements addressing the issue.
It's okay to have a choice and stand by it, what's not okay is refusing to admit that your choice didn't turn out to be what you expected.
To those ones abroad, the milk and honey of that land will flow far away from you. Wicked people.
I hope we can all see now that tribalism actually takes us nowhere.
“I’m voting for him because he’s my tribesman.”
His tribesman was beheaded gruesomely, yet he’s asking the masses to pray for the perpetrators.
His tribesmen’s children are in the bush while Children’s Day is ongoing, yet with no consideration.
I hope you can see now that the government you would kill yourself for, the government you drag yourself through the mud for, the government you fight people online for and receive curses and insults for, doesn’t give a damn about you.
He sits in his house with his family complete and intact while his tribesmen are in anguish.
To create a better Nigeria, we have to realize first that tribalism gets us nowhere; we need competence, not our tribesman.
Nigerians when will you reach breaking point? Even slaves revolted. Isn’t the suffering enough? Does Tinubu have to kill your family first before you decide he can no longer continue?
I HATE how Nigeria makes you pray certain prayers. I HATE it so much!! Politics will determine your prayer points! To say you’re apolitical is to be unwise. We are now praying that God should help us bring children and captives back from the hands of terrorists. Something that should never have happened in the first place.
Keep demanding the release of these children. Don’t be tired
Put their faces everywhere. Make it impossible for those in power to keep ignoring the nightmare these children are living through.
46 children being flogged every single day.
No one deserves to grow up like this.
Stop treating THIS TERRORIST like prodigal kids! They are intentional when they unleash terror! They kill, rape and destroy lives! Like venomous snakes… Why treat them nice when u catch them?