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As a pastor, when a sister smiles at you, run—Adeboye

&NewLine;<p>For the first time since Pastor Abiodun Fatoyinbo and Busola&NewLine;Dakolo’s rape news broke&comma; the General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church&NewLine;of God&comma; RCCG&comma; Pastor E&period;A&period; Adeboye has broken silence on the well advertised&comma;&NewLine;analysized and protested scandal&period; Intelligently&comma; he made his comment with an&NewLine;admirable caution&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Mrs&NewLine;Dakolo&comma; wife of popular singer&comma; Timi Dakolo&comma; former chorister and member of Commonwealth of Zion Assembly COZA&comma; told YNaija&NewLine;on Thursday&comma; June 27&comma; in the emotional interview&comma; that she was 16 when Pastor&NewLine;Abiodun &nbsp&semi;Fatoyinbo&comma; the senior pastor of&NewLine;the church&comma; raped her in Ilorin&comma; Kwara State&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Simultaneously&comma;&NewLine;there were torrents of reactions from different quarters&comma; associations&comma; union&NewLine;including&comma; of course&comma; Christian Association of Nigeria&comma; CAN and Pentecostal&NewLine;Fellowship of Nigeria&comma; PFN&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>The&NewLine;allegations prompted condemnation of the preacher&comma; who had allegedly faced&NewLine;previous allegations of sexual misconduct from two women&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>On&NewLine;Sunday&comma; June 30&comma; &nbsp&semi;scores of protesters&NewLine;gathered at the church’s headquarters in Abuja to march against Fatoyinbo&period; Protests&NewLine;also held in Lagos&comma; a development that made the embattled pastor to announce&NewLine;that he would be &nbsp&semi;”taking a leave of&NewLine;absence from the pulpit of the church&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>The&NewLine;pastor’s decision came amid public outcry which called on him to step down and&NewLine;address the rape allegations levelled against him by Busola&comma; who&comma; as of Friday&comma;&NewLine;July 5&comma; had approached the police for necessary prosecution process&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Since&NewLine;the news broke&comma; many Nigerians including notable pastors have aired their&NewLine;opinions and also called for an investigation to be carried out to ascertain&NewLine;the truth of the matter that allegedly happened 20 years ago&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Reacting&NewLine;to the news&comma; Pastor Adeboye who spoke during a service at the Redemption Camp&comma;&NewLine;stated that he doesn’t have much to say other than what the Christian&NewLine;Association of Nigeria&comma; CAN&comma; and the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria&comma; PFN&comma;&NewLine;have said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I&NewLine;don’t want to comment on some happenings… Like I’ve always told you when people&NewLine;say &OpenCurlyQuote;why don’t you talk&quest;’&period; I say I’m under authority&period; The Redeemed Christian Church&NewLine;of God belongs to CAN and we belong to PFN&period; And in CAN we have a president&comma; in&NewLine;PFN we have a president&period; Whatever they say&comma; that’s what I’ve said&period; That’s why I&NewLine;kept my mouth shut”&comma; he said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Pastor&NewLine;Adeboye also had a word of advice for aspiring ministers of God&period; According to&NewLine;him&comma; there’s nothing hidden that shall not come to the open&period; He went on to warn&NewLine;them that their sins will surely find them&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Speaking&NewLine;further&comma; the man of God warned the aspiring ministers to flee from youthful&NewLine;lust and evil&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;When&NewLine;you see a sister smiling at you in a koi koi way&comma; run&period; Run as in terror&period; Don’t&NewLine;say&comma; &OpenCurlyQuote;nah&comma; I’m a great man of God&comma; I’m highly anointed’&period; Ask Samson”&comma; he said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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