Seun Kuti lambasts Oyedepo over his speech about Buhari being cloned as cleric refuses to withdraw it

AFROBEAT musician Seun Kuti has lambasted Winners Chapel leader Bishop David Oyedepo over his recent outburst criticising President Muhammadu Buhari saying his is also compromised because he is dangerously wealthy and beholden to politicians.

Last week, Bishop Oyedepo had urged his congregation to pray to God to deliver Nigeria from slavery, shame and reproach following reports that President Buhari had been cloned. Bishop Oyedepo was reacting to media reports that President Buhari was dead and the person impersonating him in Aso Rock was one Jubril El Sudan.

Reacting to this, Seun, youngest son of late legend Fela Anikulapo-Kuti blasted the cleric, telling him that money cannot buy knowledge. According to Seun, the pastor should have known that the writer of the piece describing President Buhari as a clone was only being satirical.

Seun said: “You can be dangerously rich doesn’t mean you can buy enough knowledge to understand satire."

However, Bishop Oyedepo has mocked critics urging him to withdraw his statement concerning the president. Speaking from his Living Faith church headquarters at Canaanland, in Ota in Ogun State, Bishop Oyedepo vowed not to withdraw his statement because it was not a hate speech but a self esteem speech.

Bishop Oyedepo said: “I have never been asked to withdraw a statement in the past but today they are saying it is hate speech. That is no hate speech, it is self esteem speech, someone is stepping on toes and you say it is hate speech?

“Why will I withdraw my statement? God sent me and not you. You fear the one God sent and not any other because I have dominion.”

Tolu Ogunlesi, President Buhari's special assistant on digital and new media, however, described the cleric as a hater of the president. He had wondered why the cleric would go to a far length to discredit President Buhari.