As the 2023 general election approaches, Bishop David Oyedepo, Senior Pastor of the Living Faith Church Worldwide, says Nigeria needs a deliverer, not a leader.
On Thursday, December 8, he said this during a sermon at the ongoing Shiloh program at the church's
Lamenting the country's deplorable state of security and economic crises, the clergyman said he warned Nigerians in 2015 that the country was on the verge of a crisis.
"I believe the spirit is prompting me to pray for this nation." When I warned this country in 2015 that we were on the verge of a crisis and trauma, many people covered their mouths. They are not working today.
God does not require unanimous agreement to raise a prophet. I cried because I saw a nation sinking. Many politicians act as prophets, saying whatever they want to hear.
I've been deafeningly quiet. What we need now is a deliverer, not a leader," he explained.
David Olaniyi Oyedepo (born September 27, 1954) is a Nigerian preacher, Christian author, businessman, and architect who founded the Living Faith Church Worldwide and is the presiding Bishop of the Faith Tabernacle in Ota, Ogun State, Nigeria. Winners' Chapel International is another name.
Winners' Chapel International has churches in over 300 cities across Nigeria, as well as in 45 African countries, Dubai, the United Kingdom, the United States, Europe, Asia, and Canada. Oyedepo is regarded as one of the forefathers of the Christian charismatic movement in Africa, as well as one of Nigeria's most powerful preachers. He is the Chancellor of Covenant and Landmark Universities. Forbes magazine named him the richest pastor in Nigeria in 2011.
David Olaniyi Oyedepo was born on September 27, 1954, in Osogbo, Nigeria, but is a native of Omu-Aran, Irepodun Local Government Area, Kwara State. He grew up in a religiously diverse family. Ibrahim, his father, was a Muslim healer. Dorcas, his mother, was a member of the Holy Order of the Cherubim and Seraphim Movement Church (C&S), a Nigerian branch of the Aladura movement. In Osogbo, he was raised by his grandmother, who introduced him to the virtues of Christian life through early morning prayers that she attended with him. She also instilled in him the value of tithing.
Oyedepo attended the Kwara State Polytechnic in Ilorin to study architecture. He also holds a PhD in Human Development from Honolulu University in Hawaii, the United States.
Oyedepo briefly worked for the Federal Ministry of Housing in Ilorin before resigning to focus on missionary work.
He married Florence Abiola Akano in 1982. (now known as Faith Oyedepo). They have four kids together (David Jr, Isaac, Love and Joyce). Kenneth Copeland ordained David Oyedepo Jr. and Isaac Oyedepo as pastors in May 2007. David Oyedepo Jr. previously pastored the Church's London Branch with his wife Kemi, but is now the resident pastor of the Ministry's headquarters church (Faith Tabernacle), while Isaac Oyedepo pastors Winners' Chapel International in Maryland, USA, with his wife Ayomitide. Love, his first daughter, is married to Stephen Ogah, another pastor at Winners' Chapel. Joyce Priscilla is the second daughter and the last child. In 2020, she married Abimbola Abodunrin.
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