{"id":4246,"date":"2026-10-30T14:16:48","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T14:16:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/30\/i-was-warned-not-to-buy-car-house-pastor-recounts-quest-for-ritual-wealth\/"},"modified":"2026-10-30T14:16:48","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T14:16:48","slug":"i-was-warned-not-to-buy-car-house-pastor-recounts-quest-for-ritual-wealth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/30\/i-was-warned-not-to-buy-car-house-pastor-recounts-quest-for-ritual-wealth\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;I was warned not to buy car, house,&#8217; pastor recounts quest for ritual wealth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An Ogbomoso, Oyo State-based pastor, Joel Olasunkanmi, has narrated how his involvement in ritual practices in pursuit of wealth preceded a car accident that eventually led to the amputation of his leg.\n<\/p>\n<p>Olasunkanmi shared his experience in an interview with BBC Yoruba, saying he became involved with a ritualist while seeking what he described as worldly pleasures and material gains.\n<\/p>\n<p>He said the involvement lasted about five years, during which the ritualist instructed him to find a young woman he loved and perform a ritual involving her.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThirty years ago, I took some steps that made God angry. It was while I was searching for vain and worldly things that I became disabled. I had a car accident on May 26, 2001,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Recounting what the ritualist allegedly asked him to do, the pastor said he was instructed to have sexual relations with a woman he loved, use a white handkerchief to wipe her private parts and take it to him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe ritualist I sought told me to look for a young lady that I so much loved. I searched for her, had sex with her and used a white handkerchief to wipe her genitals. I took it to the man,\u201d he recounted.\n<\/p>\n<p>Olasunkanmi said he eventually became wealthy through the practice, although he claimed he did not understand how the money came to him.<\/p>\n<p>He added that the ritualist imposed restrictions on how he could use the wealth.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI did become rich. I did not know how it happened. But I did become rich. But I was told I could not buy a car or house from it,\u201d he said.\n<\/p>\n<p>He further claimed that the car involved in the accident belonged indirectly to him because he had provided the money used by another person to purchase it.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt the end of the day, the car that hit me was indirectly mine because I was the one who bought it for him. At the end of the day, my leg was amputated,\u201d he said.\n<\/p>\n<p>Reflecting on the experience, Olasunkanmi advised young Nigerians against seeking instant wealth, urging them to be patient in their pursuits.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI implore the youths of today to be patient in everything they do,\u201d he advised.\n<\/p>\n<p>Source: <\/p>\n<div class=\"nSourse\">Punch Newspapers &#8211; Latest News<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Ogbomoso, Oyo State-based pastor, Joel Olasunkanmi, has narrated how his involvement in ritual practices in pursuit of wealth preceded a car accident that eventually led to the amputation of&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4246\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}