{"id":28867,"date":"2020-08-18T16:43:05","date_gmt":"2020-08-18T16:43:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=28867"},"modified":"2020-08-18T16:43:05","modified_gmt":"2020-08-18T16:43:05","slug":"insulting-me-is-a-waste-of-time-bishop-oyedepo-replies-presidency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/insulting-me-is-a-waste-of-time-bishop-oyedepo-replies-presidency","title":{"rendered":"Insulting Me Is A Waste Of Time, Bishop Oyedepo Replies Presidency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Africa Press-Nigeria:<\/p>\n<p>Presiding Bishop of the Living Faith Church Worldwide aka Winners\u2019 Chapel, David Oyedepo, has said that it was a waste of time insulting him.<\/p>\n<p>He made the comments during a sermon on Tuesday following an earlier statement by President Muhammadu Buhari\u2019s aide on social media, Lauretta Onochie, where she criticised him for condemning the Companies and Allied Matters Bill, 2020.<\/p>\n<p>The bill, which has since been passed into law by the National Assembly after President Buhari assented to it, now gives the supervising minister the power to remove the board of trustees of churches without recourse to the court.<\/p>\n<p>Onochie had in her comment told Oyedepo to be ready to manufacture his own country and live by his own laws if he was not satisfied with the government&#8217;s decision.<\/p>\n<p>Responding through his sermon on Tuesday, Oyedepo said, \u201cYou insult me, I enjoy it. You insult me and I stop going to work because you insult, I will be a big fool. I am going to work.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey said, see his legs. Yes, I thank God for my legs. See his nose, yes, He made it and He did it beautifully. See how short he is, that\u2019s the size He made me for so I can save more clothes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnybody insulting me is wasting his time. One, I didn\u2019t hear. Two, even if I heard, it won\u2019t pain me. Anybody praising me is expressing his opinion. One, I didn\u2019t hear. And even if I heard, it won\u2019t blow my head because if you praise anything in me, it is Jesus.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNobody has the power to determine how many people worship Jesus. No force on earth has the power. If I were the devil, I will start mourning now. 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He made the comments during a sermon on Tuesday following an earlier statement by President Muhammadu Buhari\u2019s aide on social media, Lauretta Onochie, where she criticised him for condemning [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":20742,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[97,1353],"class_list":["post-28867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-buhari","tag-oyedepo"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Insulting Me Is A Waste Of Time, Bishop Oyedepo Replies Presidency - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Africa Press-Nigeria:Presiding Bishop of the Living Faith Church Worldwide aka Winners\u2019 Chapel, David Oyedepo, has said that it was a waste of\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/insulting-me-is-a-waste-of-time-bishop-oyedepo-replies-presidency\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Insulting Me Is A Waste Of Time, Bishop Oyedepo Replies Presidency\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Africa Press-Nigeria:Presiding Bishop of the Living Faith Church Worldwide aka Winners\u2019 Chapel, David Oyedepo, has said that it was a waste of\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/insulting-me-is-a-waste-of-time-bishop-oyedepo-replies-presidency\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-08-18T16:43:05+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2020\/01\/oyedepo.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"800\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"alico\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"alico\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/insulting-me-is-a-waste-of-time-bishop-oyedepo-replies-presidency#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/insulting-me-is-a-waste-of-time-bishop-oyedepo-replies-presidency\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"alico\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/50afd2ef4f0e900bd0a176404a8484a7\"},\"headline\":\"Insulting Me Is A Waste Of Time, Bishop Oyedepo Replies Presidency\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-08-18T16:43:05+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/insulting-me-is-a-waste-of-time-bishop-oyedepo-replies-presidency\"},\"wordCount\":310,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/insulting-me-is-a-waste-of-time-bishop-oyedepo-replies-presidency#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2020\/01\/oyedepo.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Buhari\",\"Oyedepo\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/insulting-me-is-a-waste-of-time-bishop-oyedepo-replies-presidency#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/insulting-me-is-a-waste-of-time-bishop-oyedepo-replies-presidency\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/insulting-me-is-a-waste-of-time-bishop-oyedepo-replies-presidency\",\"name\":\"Insulting Me Is A Waste Of Time, Bishop Oyedepo Replies Presidency - 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