The Special Adviser, Media and Publicity to the President, Mr. Femi Adesina, has accused Bishop David Oyedepo, founder of Living Faith Church Worldwide, of habouring “blind hatred” for President Muhammadu Buhari.
This was in response to comments credited to Bishop Oyedepo during a church service on Monday, describing Buhari’s government as the “most wicked and corrupt” in the history of Nigeria.
He accused the government of not caring about the welfare of the citizens, especially students.
He also made what appeared to be a reference to the probe of the accountant-general of the federation over alleged N80 billion frauds, adding that such an amount could have been channeled to meet the demands of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU).
“Many children are out of school. There is nothing to pay to get them to school. We saw some folks in Covenant that we had to help out to graduate. N30,000, first class graduates can’t get the money under this wicked, selfish, self-centered government,” Oyedepo said.
“What a fight against corruption. You were all deceived. You can’t be in corruption and fight corruption — the most corrupt regime in the history of Nigeria.
“You heard of the auditor-general, N80 billion. All they need to pay for the universities to be up and running is less than N80 billion. Are they interested? Their children are not there.”
Adesina, while responding via Twitter on Tuesday, asked Oyedepo to go and get his facts right on the difference between auditor-general and accountant-general.
“The bishop at Ota can’t even get his facts right. Blinded by hatred for PMB, he says the Auditor General stole N80bn. Pity! He doesn’t know the difference between Accountant General (only alleged) and Auditor General. Like OBJ said long ago, we should begin to ordain our own bishops,” he tweeted.