TELLER OF TALL TALES

By Akin Ojumu

Are you a married woman, and you have been praying for the fruit of the womb for many years? I’ve got good news for you. Daddy GO has the magic elixir for instant fecundity. The head of the RCCG conglomerate is so anointed, heat from his buttocks left on a chair can get a barren woman pregnant. So powerful is Baba Adeboye, trace remnants, i.e., microscopic fragments, such as hairs, fibers, or sweat, that fall off his body can banish barrenness to the wilderness.

Well, you don’t have to take my word for it. Watch the video clip yourself. You’d hear the man toot his own horn.

Taken from the livestream of the RCCG January 6, 2025, Victory Hour Program, this is a video clip showing the RCCG General Overseer reminding a massive crowd of his adoring fans of his heavy anointing.

“By his special grace, he has anointed me. We all know that.”

Well, who can dispute the fact that the old man reeks of anointing? So heavily anointed is Daddy GO that when he sweats, anointing oil oozes out of his pores instead of water. 

What his followers may not know, however, is the extent of their GO’s anointing. But that was about to change, because it was their lucky day. God, allegedly, had directed Daddy GO to demonstrate to them the width and length, height and depth of his anointing. In the goodness of his heart, he was going to share with them just a litty bitty token of his massive anointing.

“But we may not even know to what extent. And he wants me to deal with those of you here this morning in a special way. We are going to share a little bit of that anointing.”

Upon hearing that, the crowd, expectedly, went bananas. They roared:

“YEAHHHHHHH!!!!!”

But before Daddy GO got to putting on a show of his power, however, he must, to begin with, give them an explanation, i.e., an example, of how powerful his anointing really is. And he did this by telling them a story. A story of how, several years ago, he traveled to America to conduct an open crusade. At the crusade ground, a motorhome was reserved for him to stay, pray, and wait on the Lord for the meeting.

“I was visiting America. We were having a program outside…not in the Church. And they had this thing they call motorhomes. They parked it outside, so that I can be praying there.”

As it is with a celebrity preacher of his stature, standing guard outside the motorhome was a sizable presence of scary-looking, barrel-chested, and heavily muscled dudes who served as visible deterrents to any intruder who might attempt to disturb the powerful man of God as he prepared for the show.

“And when it comes to…Heh heh…security, you know, American is number One. So, they had prepared some hefty boys to make sure nobody would come near me at all to disturb me.”

When it was time for Daddy GO to proceed to the stage where a massive crowd of his followers were expectantly waiting, the security detail escorted Daddy GO with mechanical precision, an unsettling stillness, a hyper-vigilance, and a piercing gaze that sent cold shivers down the spine of the gathered devotees.

Walled off by the bodyguards to keep the annoying nuisance at bay, the self-proclaimed representative of the divine was escorted into the meeting venue where he would soon proceed to feed the greed of the faithful who had come from far and near for a supernatural encounter that only the Daddy GO can conjure.

“And then it was time for me to go and minister. The boys were ready. Nobody must come near him at all.”

Milling around, however, was this lady who, by all appearances, didn’t seem to be particularly interested in invading Daddy GO’s holy space. While the rest of the crowd aggressively swarmed the powerful man of God, this lady pretended as though she was minding her own business. As a result, the security detail paid her no heed.

“And there was a woman…somewhere…she was just…going…she wasn’t looking in my direction at all. She wasn’t looking in the direction of the motorhome. She was praying…So the boys were not worried about her…Heh heh heh heh heh…She waited till I came out of the motorhome. And they were all saying ‘Eh…good evening daddy…good evening daddy.’”

The lady waited until Daddy GO’s bodyguards were preoccupied with shooing away the mob of adoring fans. With perfect timing, she made her move. In a blink of an eye, she dashed forward. With a swift, careering motion, she lunged sideways, slipped through the door of the motorhome. In an instant, she slid the door shut behind her, sealing off the security detail, and leaving herself alone inside the ear-shattering silence of the holiest of holy zone of Daddy GO’s Winnebago.

“And she ran. And she didn’t run in my direction. She ran in the direction of the motorhome. Before anybody could stop her, she had already jumped into the motorhome and sat on where I was sitting.”

Before the protective detail could say, “DADDY GO,” the woman had achieved her objective. And her mission was simple; sit on the same seat the anointed man of God had just sat. Like the woman with the issue of blood who sought to touch the helm of Jesus’ garment so that her chronic menorrhagia would cease, this particular lady, who, apparently, had been barren for many years, told herself, “If I may but sit where Daddy GO’s butt has touched, I will conceive and have a child.”

“And then, they quickly went and they try to…She said, ‘Heh heh…you are too late. I have already got what I want.” 

And what do you know? She got her wish. In a spectacular demonstration of the anointing of Daddy GO, the barren lady became pregnant that very month. It was a stunning display of the saying, “Aspire to acquire the desire that you admire. If you perspire and don’t retire but refire, you will acquire whatever it is you desire.” 

This barren lady became pregnant, by simply sitting on a chair from which Daddy GO has just got up. In the telling of Baba Adeboye, the heat from his buttocks ended the barrenness of a childless lady. It wasn’t that God answered the woman’s prayers by His sovereign providence, but simply the fact that she tapped into Adeboye’s special fertility anointing by sitting where he had previously sat. That’s how powerful Daddy GO believes his “anointing” is.

Having thus whet the appetite of the spellbound crowd with this awe-inspiring tale of conception by absorption, the Daddy GO proceeded to reveal to the captivated audience the assignment specifically given to him by God for the crusade. His “Daddy,” he claims, sent him to turn ordinary chairs into miracle chairs. His mission on this particular occasion was to reproduce, at scale, the miracle of encounter by touching magical chairs.

“The Lord has asked me to anoint some chairs. They will be many. So, you won’t have to rush. After we have finished praying, after we have given our offering, the chairs would have been anointed, and then I will give you the go ahead. And you will just go to one of the chairs. All you need to do is touch it. Touch the chair. And then go back, praising God, and by next month, we will begin to hear your testimony.”

Just as that barren woman became pregnant by sitting on the chair he had sat on in the motorhome, anyone in the audience who touched the anointed chairs was bound to experience their own miracle as well. They did not have to pray to God. They did not have to plead with God. Of course, that was totally unnecessary. All they needed to do to receive their miracle was to touch the ordinary chairs that Daddy GO, with his anointing, had supernaturally turned into miracle chairs.

Upon hearing that, the crowd was ecstatic. They responded with a thunderous:

“AMENNNNNN!!!!”

This is the point where I’d ask the reader to take a pause and think through the implications of what they’ve just heard the General Overseer of a so-called Christian Church espoused. 

Ask yourself the question:

Who, in this account, gets the glory? Who is the hero of the story that Daddy GO told his audience? After hearing this sort of “testimony,” who do you think the audience looks up to for solutions to their troubles? To whom do you think the people turn to solve their problems? Is it God or the man who claims he is “heavily anointed” by God? 

Stories like the one Daddy GO told his audience in this video clip are a dime a dozen. It’s the stock in trade of a preacher who thrives on the theology of self-glory. This is, of course, a man who claims he has the rare ability of getting barren women pregnant supernaturally. In fact, he once told the story of another barren lady who got pregnant after eating his leftover chicken.

Telling fabulous stories is Baba Adeboye’s wheelhouse. He is a storyteller and a pretty darn good one at that. The man knows how to tell happy lies.

Therein lies the problem. Telling happy lies is not exactly the same thing as preaching the Truth of the Gospel. It’s especially not the case when the story told is always about self-glory where the storyteller is the hero of the story. 

It’s not all that difficult to spot a teller of happy lies. These folks can’t help but give themselves away. The following are some of the signs to look for.

1) A Teller of Tall Tales is Always the Hero of His Own Story

Driven by their malignant narcissism, a teller of tall tales can’t help but make himself the central character of his stories. Because his motive is to make himself the object of the hearers’ worship, the fabulist is always the hero of his own story. He is the one with power. He is the one with the anointing. And he alone is the solution to the audience problem.

John 7:18

“He that speaketh of himself seeketh his own glory: but he that seeketh his glory that sent him, the same is true, and no unrighteousness is in him.”

2) Happy Lies Always Scratch Itching Ears

The goal of a teller of happy lies is never about expounding Scripture. No, not tall. Their messages are all about scratching the itching ears of their listeners and never about expositing the Bible. What they are about is never a yearning for contentment; it’s always a lusting after encounter. All they do is fan into flame the lustful passions of their listeners.

2 Timothy 4:1-4

“I charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead, and by his appearing and his kingdom: preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with complete patience and teaching. For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths.”

3) Mark and Avoid a Scratcher of Itching Ears

Happy lies are sensuous and seductive. Such stories engender a feel-good emotion in the hearers. In contrast to the preaching of the true Gospel which points at Christ and what He has accomplished on the behalf of undeserving sinners, happy lies focus on self, and they place the self at the center of reality.

Romans 16:17-18

“I appeal to you, brothers, to watch out for those who cause divisions and create obstacles contrary to the doctrine that you have been taught; avoid them. For such persons do not serve our Lord Christ, but their own appetites, and by smooth talk and flattery they deceive the hearts of the naive.”

4) Holy Spirit Inspired Preaching Glorifies Christ Alone

Whereas the unvarnished Gospel tells sinners that they are spiritually bankrupt and need Christ’s righteousness, a teller of happy lies assures his audience that they are basically awesome people and that God is thrilled with them and that all they need to do is to shift and go to the next level. While the Holy Spirit inspired preaching is God-centered truth that glories Christ alone, the corrupted gospel of a teller of tall tales is a self-centered materialism with a few Bible verses duct taped on it for legitimacy.

John 16:12-15

“I still have many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now. When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth, for he will not speak on his own authority, but whatever he hears he will speak, and he will declare to you the things that are to come. He will glorify me, for he will take what is mine and declare it to you. All that the Father has is mine; therefore I said that he will take what is mine and declare it to you.”

Daddy GO Adeboye is a teller of happy lies. Any preacher who will attempt to supplant God and steal His glory is an emissary of Satan sent to lead as many biblically ignorant people as possible along on the broad road that leads to destruction. If you care at all about your soul, you will mark and avoid this man like the spiritual plague that he is.