Pastor Enoch Adeboye of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) says that politicians were renting jobless youths to attend their campaign rallies.

Mr Adeboye made this statement on Friday during a sermon at the church auditorium in Mowe, Ogun State. 

He said that political parties don’t schedule their rallies “simultaneously in a town” because the crowd are paid to gather, noting that after the “campaigns are over” the participants will be jobless. 

Mr Adeboye who earlier said that God was yet to reveal the winner of the 2023 elections, however, said that “thousands of youths” participating in the rallies were doing so because of joblessness.

“I watch it in the news. If human beings promote you, oh, I don’t know whether I should say this. I’m sure you have been watching the campaign rallies, I watch it on the news.

“I don’t know if you have noticed that two different people don’t hold their campaign simultaneously in a town. Have you noticed that? You don’t know why? Because majority of the crowd, majority are rented.

“So I come, I pay, you gather. After I’ve gone, another man comes, he pays, you gather,” Mr Adeboye added. 

He added, “Somebody said ‘Daddy, you keep on saying that you haven’t heard from God about who will win or who will…’ Maybe because there are several things occupying my mind and one of it is; when I see the crowd gathering and if you look at the crowd majority of them crowd are young.

“When I see the hundreds of thousands of youths, you have to be jobless to be attending all these rallies. What is going to happen when the campaigns are over?” the clergy added.