The General Overseer of The Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), Pastor Enoch Adeboye, has mocked political parties renting crowds for campaign rallies.
Adeboye spoke during his sermon titled, “Wonderful” at the January 2023 Holy Ghost Service of the RCCG on Friday night.
He adduced crowd renting as a reason two political candidates do not hold campaign rallies simultaneously in a town.
“I watch it in the news. If human beings promote you, oh, I don’t know whether I should say this. I’m sure you have been watching the campaign rallies, I watch it on the news. I don’t know if you have noticed that two different people don’t hold their campaign simultaneously in a town.
“Have you noticed that? You don’t know why? Because majority of the crowd, majority are rented. So I come, I pay, you gather. After I’ve gone, another man comes, he pays, you gather,” Adeboye said.
The cleric, who is fondly called Daddy GO by his followers, expressed concern about jobless youths frequenting campaign rallies.
“Somebody said, “Daddy, you keep on saying that you haven’t heard from God about who will win or who will…’ Maybe because there are several things occupying my mind and one of it is; when I see the crowd gathering and if you look at the crowd majority of them are young.
“When I see the hundreds of thousands of youths, you have to be jobless to be attending all these rallies. What is going to happen when the campaigns are over?” Adeboye asked.
The Herald earlier reported that Adeboye said God had not revealed the winner of the February 25 presidential election to him.