Adeboye denies protesting Jonathan, says 2020 photo was CAN prayer walk, not political protest
RCCG General Overseer Enoch Adeboye, 84, used his November Thanksgiving sermon Sunday to deny ever leading a protest against former President Goodluck Jonathan. He addressed viral photos of him holding a placard in 2020, explaining it was a Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) prayer walk in Ebute Meta, Lagos—not a protest against Jonathan, who left office in 2015.
Adeboye said journalists twisted the timeline, claiming the 2020 prayer walk during Buhari's second term was actually a 2015 anti-Jonathan demonstration. "I carried the placard in 2020. Jonathan ceased to be president in 2015," he stated, criticizing media for skipping basic investigative journalism.
The cleric also clarified his comments on the May 15 kidnapping of 32 pupils and teachers from three schools in Orire LGA, Oyo State. Speaking to U.S. officials, he said he affirmed God would bring the children home alive and defended President Tinubu's response, comparing it to Trump ordering military action then going to bed. Adeboye said media clipped his 30-minute speech to five minutes, framing it as "the president has done his best" while ignoring his call for help targeting terrorism sponsors.
Allegations linking his perceived Tinubu support to shared Yoruba heritage or the First Lady's RCCG ordination (August 2018) were not directly addressed but form the backdrop.
When a decades-old photo gets weaponized to rewrite a leader's political history, will you check the date stamp or share the narrative?