gift as Pastor Tunde Bakare's comment about a need for revolution
because certain eminent religious leaders have private jets, has been
greatly condemned by religious leaders.
Reacting to Pastor Bakare's comment, the General Secretary of the
Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Rev. Musa Asake; Director of
National Issues of CAN in charge of North West Zone, Rev. Haruna
Karatu; and the PRO of 19 northern states and Abuja CAN, Elder Sunday
Oibe said there is nothing wrong with people donating aircraft to
their religious leaders.
Bakare had said, a few days after church members donated a private jet
to Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor as a birthday present, that a bloody
revolution that would consume religious leaders who are acquiring
private jets would soon break out in the country, as he urged their
congregations to challenge them to explain where and how they raised
the money to procure such expensive jets.
Responding, the CAN secretary said: "What is wrong with giving a
birthday gift to Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor? Did he embezzle church money?
Did he collect somebody's money? If a group of people come together to
buy him a jet to ease his evangelical work, why should that be a
subject of public debate?
"Oritsejafor is a man of God. He is doing everything for the work of
God". Also speaking on the ongoing debate in social media especially
the tweet by former Minister of Federal Capital Territory, Mallam
Nasir el Rufai, Elder Eghes Eyieyien said Nigerian pastors who own
private jets should not be envied because they travel very frequently
around the world ministering.
"Redeemed Christian Church of God has thousands of branches and
millions of members on all continents of the world. Winners' Chapel
and Christ Embassy equally have many international branches and
hundreds of thousands of members. Pastor Adeboye, Bishop Oyedepo and
Pastor Oyakhilome travel thousands of kilometres monthly doing God's
work and have to be in places not well-served by commercial flights,"
he said.