By Seyi Babalola
UK-based Nigerian reality star, Natasha Akide, simply known as Tacha, has expressed her worry over certain Nigerian Christian priests’ disruptive attitude.
She asserted that 90 percent of Nigerian pastors would not be able to get away with what they do outside of Nigeria.
She said this in response to the drama between the Senior Pastor of the House on the Rock Church, Paul Adefarasin, and an automobile spotter.
Daily Sun reports that Pastor Adefarasin faced public condemnation when a video of him holding a pistol-like device and rebuking a vehicle spotter who was photographing his car went viral.
Addressing the viral video, Adefarasin stated that the object in the tape was not a weapon and that he did not direct it at anyone.
He also said the car spotter was hostile.
Tacha responded in a video message shared on her X account, claiming that the footage showed Pastor Adefarasin clutching a pistol-like device and that the automobile spotter was not violent.
She claimed that the Senior Pastor of the House on the Rock Church was trying to gaslight the public.
She said, “I didn’t want to say anything about the church brouhaha that’s going on until I saw clips from today’s service. Because there’s nothing I hate more than gaslighting. Everybody saw the video. We all saw the video. And from the video, we can tell who the aggressor was.
“In case you have forgotten, this pastor stopped his car, wined down, held an object that looks like a firearm and told this boy, ‘Don’t do that, don’t do that…’
“And from what I remembered, the boy was even hailing the pastor in that video. There are so many car spotters all around the world. I don’t see what that boy was doing wrong. I don’t see how he was being aggressive. How was he being aggressive?
“Nothing pain me pass the gullible congregation that was clapping and cheering. Because what are you clapping and cheering for?
“Didn’t you watch the video or you have selective blindness? And let me make this very clear, 90 per cent of our Nigerian Pastors will not get away with what they do in Nigeria outside Nigeria. The kind of Christianity they practice, if they try it anywhere outside Nigeria their church will close down within a year.
“Let’s not even go far, if it was Seyi Tinubu or Wike or Wike’s son tthat did this same thing, one part of Twitter would be burning by now and it will burn for one week. But because he is a pastor, some persons are making excuses for him.
“This is the same pastor who allegedly stepped out of his car last year to smash the windscreen of a bus that hit his car putting the passengers at risk. And yet wants to label the content creator as aggressive. So anybody holding a phone now is aggressive? This selective hypocrisy is so crazy. Let’s stop being hypocrites.”
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