The Redeemed Christian Church of God has cleared the air on reports making the rounds that the General Overseer of the church, Pastor E.A Adeboye asked a king to vacate his throne.
The church in a statement on its official X handle on Tuesday said the cleric was going to minister from the altar and there was a chair which was the only chair prepared for him which was already placed there.
The statement emphasized that at no point during pastor Adeboye’s ministration did he ask any of the Kings to vacate their throne for him to sit on.
The statement reads in part, “It has been brought to our attention that Pastor E.A Adeboye supposedly asked a King to vacate his throne so he could sit on it.This is false!
“Pastor E.A Adeboye was going to minister from the altar and there was a chair which was the only chair prepared for him which was already placed there.
“At no point during his time at the ministration did he ask any of the Kings to vacate their throne for him to sit on.
“The seat on the altar was brand new.
No other King or individual had sat on the seat before!
“Pastor E.A Adeboye truly respects and honours the traditional chiefs & traditional rulers in our nation.
“He honours them, holds them in high regard and would not do anything at all to demean them.
“Pastor E.A Adeboye appeals to all those who are fabricating and spreading various false comments.Pastor Adeboye does not consider himself ‘God’!
“He did not and would never displace any person from his throne for him to sit down.Please in the future before you pass any comment on anything that has to do with Pastor E.A Adeboye – kindly find out the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth from his office.”
The cleric had come under fire when a viral photo on social media showing Pastor Adeboye sitting on the royal chair with some people condemning the monarch for allowing it.
The Punch Metro had published that Olugbon of Orile-Igbon in Oyo State, Oba Francis Alao, on Monday, explained why the General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Pastor Enoch Adeboye, sat on one of his palace chairs at a recent occasion in his domain.
