Adeboye: I Wish To Die On Sunday After Eating Pounded Yam

Respected Man of God and General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, RCCG, Pastor Enoch Adejare Adeboye has hinted that his personal prayer to God is to die on Sunday after conducting Service and eating his favourite pounded yam.

The MOG made the remark on Thursday while preaching at the church’s ongoing 2025 Convention titled “The Overcomers” in Ogun state.

This is not the first time that Adeboye will hint about his own death. In March this year, he clocked 83 years old, and watchers of the Pentecostal church said he still look strong to carry on God’s work on earth.

According to him, he will pass on peacefully after preaching at the Sunday Service and eating his favourite pounded yam, saying his passing will be very peaceful without sickness.

“I will die on a Sunday after attending service, eat my beloved pounded yam, and then pass on without any sickness,” Adeboye said.

Adeboye had in 2023 said he wished to die the same way one of his uncle died.

Narrating how his uncle passed, Adeboye explained that his uncle, after a joyous day in church, enjoyed a light breakfast and was anticipating a meal of pounded yam prepared by his wife.

But, when his uncle went to the toilet after his wife had finished pounding the yam, he peacefully passed away without any signs of sickness or discomfort.

Adeboye: “I know somebody will say if we are never sick, how are we going to die and go to heaven?

“An uncle of mine woke up on a thanksgiving Sunday, went to church, danced like everybody else, came home and his wife gave him a light breakfast before preparing the original food which was pounded yam.

“She was already pounding the yam when my uncle decided to go to the toilet. After she finished pounding, she knocked at the door of the toilet. When they opened the door, my uncle was gone; no sickness, no ache, no pain.

“If the Lord tarries His coming, that is how I will go. I will go on a Sunday after a good meal of pounded yam.”

The magazine reports that the renowned cleric  had recently upbraided President Bola Ahmed Tinubu for not rewarding the Super Falcons coaches with the same amount of $100,000 given the players after they won the African Women football championship.