Nollywood actor, Femi Jacobs has called out the General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) Pastor Enoch Adeboye for attributing Nigeria’s current exchange rate stability to divine intervention.
TheNewsGuru.com(TNG) reports that the clergyman while speaking at the Special Holy Ghost Congress in Abuja, disclosed that the Naira could have plunged to ₦10,000 to $1 had the holy spirit not intervened.
Recall the exchange rate currently stands at ₦1,730 to a dollar.
Adeboye reflected on the challenges Nigeria faced before President Bola Tinubu’s administration, noting the country’s dependence on imported fuel despite the billions invested in refineries.
He said, “If we had not prayed, $1 would have been ₦10,000 by now. God stepped in and saved Nigeria”
“Before our president came in, everybody knew that the major reason we were having financial problems is the fact that a lot of money was being spent to import petrol.
“How can we be importing petrol when we have this resource in abundance here?
“We spent billions of naira on our refineries, and yet they didn’t work. So, we had to keep on importing fuel.
“That’s why when the president came in, the very first day he came, he said these money spent on importing petrol are canceled. We were all rejoicing but some people were angry — those making money from importing petrol.
“Then they decided to create problems, and suddenly, the naira began to decline rapidly.
“I called on my people to pray, and some people joined in. Because the way the naira was declining, if God had not intervened, by now, $1 would be about N10,000. But God stepped in.”
Reacting, the actor via the microblogging platform, X slammed the cleric over his remarks on Naira, noting that the church will be made to ‘disgracefully stand up for things they can’t stand up to.’’
He added that even though he will be considered unholy for his statement, he could not stand the idiocy.
In his words, “Dear Church, there is patience but there is also cowardice and whatever we can’t stand up to we will be made to disgracefully stand up for. Imagine doing PR for thieves? Yes, it will happen even more often now. The harvests of hypocritical cowardice are finally coming home. There are those who will consider me unholy for this, but this idiocy is turning my stomach.”