-Calls them Pentecostal rascals, money launderers
-Why Winners Chapel founder is silent
One falsehood spoils a thousand truths. Ask Pastor Tunde Bakare, the founder and General Overseer (G.O) of the Latter Rain Assembly understands that if he fails to bellow the truth when he knows the truth, he undoubtedly makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers.
This perhaps explains his recent outburst and criticism of fellow Pentecostal pastors. Bakare recently lampooned church leaders who were against the Financial Reporting Council of Nigeria Act, 2011, calling them ‘money launderers’ who were trying to cover up their ‘iniquities.’ He revealed that pastors opposing the act were desperately trying to prevent the public from knowing about the crimes of money-laundering they had indulged in by virtue of their positions.
He however described some pastors as “Pentecostal, charismatic rascals” who do whatever they want even if the law says otherwise. He made the assertion soon after Pastor Enoch Adeboye stepped down as the G.O of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG). Bakare criticised fellow pastors who condemned the FRCN act. Some popular pastors in Nigeria, especially Winners Chapel founder, Pastor David Oyedepo, had condemned the removal of one of their own.
This incited Pastor Bakare’s harsh condemnation of his fellow clerics. Interestingly, Oyedepo and co are surprisingly quiet in the wake of Bakare’s outburst. They probably dread exchanging words with the Latter Rain Assembly founder.
