Founder, and General Overseer of Citadel Global Community Church, popularly known as Latter Rain Assembly, Tunde Bakare, has cleared the air on his alleged rift with the founder of Living Faith Church Worldwide, also known as Winners Chapel, Bishop David Oyedepo.
Bakare, in an interview with Sam Omatseye, during a Television Continental, TVC, Programme, tagged, ‘The Big Talk’, on Saturday 28th August, 2021, said he is no enemy of Oyedepo, although they share different doctrines and beliefs.
The former Vice Presidential Candidate of the defunct Congress for Progressive Change, CPC, said he has a good and cordial relationship with fellow Pentecostal Pastors in the country.
“Oyedepo and I are contemporaries. We were born in the same year,” he said.
“Oyedepo was born in August, 1954, and I was born in September. We are contemporaries, God has really blessed him and used him.
“We have differences in doctrines, what we believe, but that does not make us enemies,” he said.
Bakare went down memory lane and spoke on how he and Oyedepo were on a plane one time and another brother was coming over to greet him, but on seeing them together, he froze.
“There is (a) difference between issues and persons. We can defend the Gospel but those who do not and destroy it will die before their time. I have nothing personal against any man of God but I will always defend the truth that I know and I will always make it plain.”
Speaking on his differences with Oyedepo, the renowned Clergyman said the Gospel and truth are one but when someone “begins to twist the truth to make it funny,” he will speak out.
“It is a true friend that speaks true to his friend. Mantras will die before their time.
“When you speak truth, eventually when the truth begins to rule, there will be no element of falsehood,” he said.
Bakare also referenced an incident where he tore a book written by Oyedepo in the open and when he was confronted, he said the book was full of errors.
“How can someone say the anointing oil is not a symbol of the Holy Spirit? It is the release of God in the bottle. If it is told to few people so, it is okay. If anointing oil is the Holy Spirit, then Jesus is a lamb walking on four legs. They are symbols, and symbols are not as important,” he said.
Speaking about politics in Nigeria, corruption and other national matters, he said Nigeria cannot stem the tide of corruption until the sons emerge and to tell Churches not to do what they are doing, is calling for a blackout.
The Clergyman said there are different types of Churches including the compromising Church, the corrupt Church and the lukewarm Church, but it is important not to confuse the crowd with the Church.
He added that he is not a controversial Pastor and the controversies are not by him but engineered by God.
Bakare went further to air his view about the purchasing of Private Jets by Pastors, especially by his perceived enemy and contemporary. He said, “By the way, when he makes noise about his private jet of a thing, do you know that I once acquired a 1707 with the logo of our church on it? Are you aware of that? But we use it for business. I don’t buy a plane to be spending money on it, that I can jump quickly on another and pay little money to where I’m going.
“We can afford it; we are not envious of them at all,” he added.
The former Muslim turned Christian said Pastor Enoch Adeboye, the General Overseer of the Redeemed Church of Christ, signed his wedding certificate as his father and he built his first house on the camp ground being a favoured son.
“It is only bastards that use (the) left hand to point to the house of his father,” he said.
He added that he was at Deeper Life Church for about five years before he went to the Redeemed Church.
“I don’t call those men my colleagues. They are my fathers,” he said, speaking of Adeboye and William Kumuyi of the Deeper Life Bible Church.
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