{"id":5606,"date":"2026-11-01T11:45:46","date_gmt":"2026-11-01T11:45:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/01\/it-was-a-prayer-walk-pastor-adeboye-denies-carrying-placard-against-jonathan\/"},"modified":"2026-11-01T11:45:46","modified_gmt":"2026-11-01T11:45:46","slug":"it-was-a-prayer-walk-pastor-adeboye-denies-carrying-placard-against-jonathan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/01\/it-was-a-prayer-walk-pastor-adeboye-denies-carrying-placard-against-jonathan\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018It was a prayer walk\u2019 \u2013 Pastor Adeboye denies carrying placard against Jonathan"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), Pastor Enoch Adeboye, has faulted media reports linking a placard he carried during a prayer walk to former President Goodluck Jonathan\u2019s administration.<\/p>\n

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The cleric spoke on Sunday during the church\u2019s November Thanksgiving service, where he accused a journalist of misrepresenting the incident and portraying him as a wicked person for allegedly carrying a placard against the former president.<\/p>\n

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Recounting how he came across the report, Adeboye said he was initially amused by the claim.<\/p>\n

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\u201cRecently, somebody wrote in the papers, or said somehow, \u2018Pastor Adeboye is a very wicked man. After all, we know that not too long ago, he carried a placard against President Goodluck Jonathan,\u2019\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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While admitting that he carried a placard, the cleric insisted that the exercise was a prayer walk and not a protest against Jonathan.<\/p>\n

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\u201cTrue, I carried a placard. I can\u2019t deny that. It was important. It was a prayer walk. We wanted to pray,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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He explained that the exercise followed a directive asking churches to organise prayer walks around their premises.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe chairman said all churches should do a prayer walk near their churches. That\u2019s what I did,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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Adeboye further argued that the date of the exercise contradicted the report\u2019s suggestion that he carried the placard against Jonathan while he was president.<\/p>\n

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\u201cBut I carried the placard in 2020. Jonathan ceased to be president in 2015. I carried the placard five years in the second term of Buhari,\u201d Adeboye said.<\/p>\n

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He accused the journalist of distorting the facts and criticised the failure to investigate the circumstances surrounding the incident before publishing the report.<\/p>\n

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\u201cBut a journalist twisted it. I said, I did what I did in 2015. And everybody swallowed it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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The RCCG leader also recalled his exposure to journalism studies in the 1960s, saying he was taught the importance of investigative journalism and verifying information before publication.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI remember in those days in the Department of Journalism, when you go there and you take a course, they talked about something called investigative journalism,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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He added, \u201cThat things don\u2019t appear as they may seem. Investigate, if you have a story, before you take it to the press.\u201d<\/p>\n

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