Why I Tore Oyedepo’s Book – Tunde Bakare

Tunde Bakare has said that he once publicly tore a book written by David Oyedepo, the founder of Winners’ Chapel, on the claim that it was full of errors.

Bakare, founder of Citadel Global Community Church (formerly Latter Rain Assembly), spoke on Saturday during a TVC programme where he enumerated his relationship with senior Pentecostal leaders.

While he described Oyedepo as his contemporary with whom he shared differences on doctrines, he hailed Pastor Enoch Adeboye and William Kuymiyi as his fathers.

He said: “Oyedepo and I are contemporaries. We were born in the same year.

“Oyedepo was born in August 1954, and I was born in September. We are contemporaries, God has really blessed him and used him.

“We have differences in doctrines, what we believe, but that does not make us enemies,” he said.

“I have nothing personal against any man of God but I will always defend the truth that I know and I will always make it plain.”

While noting how a Christian brother was shocked to see him and Oyedepo in the same plane at one time, he let out that his ministry also has a plane.

“By the way, when he makes noise about his private jet of a thing, do you know that I once acquired a 1707 with the logo of our church on it? Are you aware of that? But we use it for business. I don’t buy a plane to be spending money on it, that I can jump quickly on another and pay little money to where I’m going.

“We can afford it; we are not envious of them at all.”

On why he tore a book written by Oyedepo, he said:

“How can someone say the anointing oil is not a symbol of the Holy Spirit? It is the release of God in the bottle. If it is told to few people so, it is okay. If anointing oil is the Holy Spirit, then Jesus is a lamb walking on four legs. They are symbols, and symbols are not as important.”

Speaking on his relationship with Adeboye and Kumiyi, respectively the general overseers of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, RCCG and Deeper Life Christian Ministry, he said that Adeboye signed his wedding certificate and that he built his first house in the RCCG camp ground.

“It is only bastards that use (the) left hand to point to the house of his father.”

He also added that he worshiped in Deeper Life for five years before moving over to RCCG.

“I don’t call those men my colleagues. They are my fathers,” he said, speaking of Mr Adeboye and William Kumuyi of the Deeper Life Bible Church.

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