Pastor Sam Adeyemi,
however, debunked Pastor Chris Oyakhilome’s claim.
Adeyemi said churches,
mosques, schools, and markets were also shut in 1918 during the influenza
pandemic in Nigeria.
Sam Adeyemi, the senior
pastor of the Daystar Christian Centre, has warned leaders to stop giving
extreme interpretations to the Coronavirus epidemic.
Adeyemi’s warning followed
debates and conspiracy theories by popular pastors and politicians who have
found a way to link the 5G network with spiritual things and the Coronavirus
epidemic.
One of the popular pastors
was Chris Oyakhilome who in a viral video linked the Coronavirus and the 5G
network to Antichrist.
Oyakhilome also alleged
that the Federal government of Nigeria, locked down Lagos, Abuja to secretly
install 5G.
Adeyemi urged leaders to
use the opportunities in every crisis, and not to project extreme
interpretation that causes fear to their followers.
“Some leaders are giving
extreme interpretations to the crisis. I studied the last global pandemic
before COVID-19 to give the right perspective.
“There was a pandemic 100
years ago I read online because the interpretation that people are giving to
this pandemic, they range from one extreme to the other.
“I don’t even want to go
into the details now, but there’s quarrel on social media now, from 5G to 10G
and other things. I decided to check, how it affects Nigeria and came across a
research article by a history lecturer at the University at Birnin Kebbi.
“In 1918 September, when
the influenza epidemic hit, it was sea travel that spread influenza around
unlike air travel spreading Coronavirus now.
“The ships brought sick
people into the Lagos port.
“I was shocked and screamed
when I saw they closed churches, mosques, schools and markets in 1918. So, some
of us now think it is the anti-Christ that is at work, he does not want us to
gather together and fellowship.
“We should just be grateful
to God that we have internet now and we can be relating without meeting
together. They shut churches in 1918.
“A leader should take a
perspective like that, then calm people down and tell them there will be life
after this thing,” he said.
The 1918 pandemic was the
Spanish flu crisis which was from January 1918 to December 1920.
The flu killed about
50million people and infected about 500 million people (about a quarter of the
world’s population at the time).
However, Sam Adeyemi made
his points on Tuesday night during a live Instagram chat with Poju Oyemade, the
senior pastor of The Covenant Nation.
Watch below:
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