Overseer of the Living Faith Church also known as Winners’ Chapel,
Bishop David Oyedepo has stated that he feels good when accused of
flying private jets and maintaining them with church’s money.
When
asked in an interview with the Education Explorer during the weekend if
the allegation that he uses church money to main his jets trouble him,
the pastor said, “I feel very good. It’s an opinion. Let me tell you
what my understanding of persecution is; it’s simply an opinion harshly
expressed. And everybody has a right to his opinion.
“People who
are walking in the truth are hardly bothered when things are said
negatively about them because they have nothing to hide. The truth is I
have never felt it, some say it’s not human, but I have not. I can’t be
wasting my time trying to reply lies because I have too many things to
do.
“They are doing their work, let me be doing my work too and
before they wake up in the morning, I’ve done the next one, so, it
doesn’t matter. My idea of it is that, in a football match, you have
only 22 people playing with thousands of spectators.
“And that is
the way it is in the journey of life. In every field, you find just few
players and many spectators, multitudes. If we don’t know where to
place opinions, they will displace us.
“When we started
Covenant University, so many people said it would not work, now, we
hosted two Nobel Laureates this week, whereas no Nigerian university has
ever hosted one in the history of university education in Nigeria.
“Now,
it is the most pronounced and preferred private university in Nigeria.
In fact, they say this is the university of the future; that is what
they say in the university community. Those who said it could not work
now have their children here because they have changed their mind.
“Some
people say how can you tell children how to dress? We have to do that
so they won’t behave like mad people on the street. They say how can you
tell them they can’t use phone? We tell them so they would be
disconnected from cultism.
“Ask me anything, I can tell you why
we did it. Where are you going to find the President of a nation with a
woven hair? I can tell you that in the next 100 years, you won’t find a
male president using earring because they would count you as
irresponsible, even in the secular world, they won’t see anything in
you.
“As free as America is, have you ever seen any minister
there with earrings? The person may be qualified, but he will be termed
irresponsible. But if you train these children how to carry themselves,
it will open up their future.
“Everywhere you get to in this
world, people are looking for responsible people, who don’t only say so,
but prove so. So, all the opinions on Covenant University have died now
because we didn’t stop pursuing what we believe was right and now it
has become a standard.”