March 2, 2022

Today, March 2, 2022, Pastor Enoch Adeboye, the General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) Worldwide, turns 80 but it was only because God delivered him for the killer squad of the late General Sani Abacha, Nigeria’s meanest military dictator.

In his book titled ‘Let Somebody Shout Hallelujah’, Pastor Anthony Ojoibukun, a senior pastor in RCCG and a former secretary to Adeboye (1998 to 2000), chronicled how information filtered into the Camp and to Pastor Adeboye that Abacha was out to eliminate him.

Ojoibukun did not mention Abacha as the dictator he referenced in his book, but it was obvious from the series of events and the timing, that Abacha was the Nigerian ruler who wanted to kill the preacher of righteousness.

It was gathered that Abacha got a report from his diviners that as long as Adeboye was alive and praying, “the diabolical schemes of Abacha regarding Nigeria would be thwarted.”

At that time, Abacha had fully transformed to a dictator, shoving people into jail with state-sponsored killings targeted at those likely to oppose his planned transmutation to military President using his plot of a carefully orchestrated one-party state.

Based on the intelligence from his diviners (Marabouts) who thronged Aso Rock in Abacha days, orders went out to his squad to eliminate Adeboye.

According to Ojoibukun, rather than praying for his own protection or fleeing from the country, Adeboye’s first reaction was to pray that “God would have mercy on the Head of State so that he would repent of his murderous intent.”

But there were strong indications that Abacha would not relent and God began to show Adeboye that He (God) has decided to give Nigeria a new dawn.

“On Friday, in June 1998, Pastor Adeboye conducted his usual all-night Holy Ghost prayer service. That was June 5, 1998.

“In the early hours of Saturday, June 6, 1998, as the Holy Ghost Service for that month was about to end, Pastor Adeboye suddenly told the mammoth crowd to go round and shake hands, and greet one another with ‘Happy New Year!’”

Barely 48 hours later, precisely in the early hours of Monday, June 8. 1998, Abacha was pronounced dead inside Aso Rock.

According to Ojoibukun, Adeboye believes that until God says ‘come home’, absolutely nothing can stop him.

Ojoibukun wrote: “It was not only Adeboye that got his freedom and victory, a whole nation was set free from the clutches of that oppressor.”