The
President and Founder of the Living Faith Church Worldwide, also known as
Winners Chapel, Bishop David Oyedepo, has said that speaking out against
oppression and injustice should not be classified as hate speech.
Oyedepo
said this at Faith Tabernacle, Ota, Ogun State on Saturday, while delivering
his sermon during the impartation service of the 20th Shiloh, which is the
annual gathering of members of the church.
It
would be recalled that the Federal Government had made attempts to criminalise
fake news and hate speech. Earlier in the year, the Minister of Information,
Lai Mohammed, described fake news and hate speech, especially in a multi-ethnic
and multi- religious country like Nigeria, as a time bomb waiting to explode if
not checked on time.
However,
Oyedepo did not mention President Muhammadu Buhari nor the Federal Government
during the sermon, but he stressed that speaking out against oppression and
injustice done to one could not be justifiably classified as hate speech
in any way.
He
said, “Somebody is stepping on your toes and you ask him to take away his leg,
and they call it hate speech. Is that a hate speech? Is it a love speech?
It is self esteem speech. When you carry the Spirit of Dominion, you don’t beg.”
The
preacher said he had never had an occasion to withdraw any of the messages he
had preached in the past 37 years, saying he was an ambassador of God that
enjoyed full supernatural backing.
Explaining
the ambassadorial status of Christians further, Oyedepo said that if
anybody in this country carried a complimentary card of the President, the card
would grant such a person access to many places, how much more Christians, who
had the divine authority to dominate in all areas of life.
He
stated that most of the best universities in the world were founded by the
Church, citing Oxford and Cambridge universities as examples of institutions
that had been in existence for more than one thousand years.
The
preacher added that the Covenant University had gone far ahead of many
government-owned institutions that had been in existence long before it was
established.
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