An Ibarapa chieftain and a major figure in the agitation for the Yoruba nation, Sunday Adeyemo, a.k.a Sunday Igboho, has denied mocking Pastor Enoch Adeboye, the General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), over the death of his 43-year-old son, Dare.

WUZUPNIGERIA reports that Igboho’s denial comes despite video evidence and huge criticism from Nigerians over his statement during an interview with his media aide, Olayomi Koiki, on Saturday.

Igboho had in the video said he would not sympathize with the revered cleric over the demise of his son because he does not support the Yoruba nation cause despite having huge numbers of worshippers in his church.

WUZUPNIGERIA further reports that Koiki had, in the initial video asked Igboho to commiserate with Adeboye over the death of his son. But the visibly infuriated Igboho asked if the man of God had declared his support for the Yoruba nation.

He added that any elder or Pastor who refuses to support the secessionist agenda, God will kill their children and wives.

“Has Baba supported the Yoruba nation that we will now be greeting him? We don’t need to greet Adeboye. What is my own with that? We are not doing church here. This is not religion,” he said.

“Pastor Adeboye didn’t speak about the Yoruba nation. Look at the number of crowd in Baba Adeboye’s church. Is he not supposed to tell all of them to join the Yoruba nation? We don’t need to greet him.

“God himself will start asking questions from all the enemies of the Yoruba race. By the grace of God, anybody who says Yoruba will not get to the promised land, God will kill their children and wives and their entire family.”

Igboho’s attack on the Adeboyes and other clerics outrage Nigerians who condemned the self-acclaimed activist for being insensitive to the present ordeal of the septuagenarian.

The criticisms have, however, forced Igboho to backtracked and deny neither cursing nor mocking the soft-spoken pastor over the death of his son.

In a new video, Igboho said:  “May we not experience untimely death, I did not insult Baba, or speak ill of him or the dead. If you look at the video, you’ll see that it was not related to him.

“I only placed curses on all elders who have powers and can help Yoruba nation but have refused to help the struggle.

“I was referring to the elders, why will you have power? Influence? and you can see how we are suffering and being killed, you are supposed to pity and help us.

“God knows when we’ll all leave this world, he owns us, we’ll all die someday. I did not mock the Adeboye family over their son’s demise.

“May God forgive us all, and grant Baba Adeboye long life. I did not abuse him. I only placed a curse on those who are sabotaging the efforts of the Yoruba Nation.

“I don’t know Baba Adeboye physically, and he does not know me too, I did not mock him.

“Baba must have watched the video, and he’ll know I did not abuse him. In the last video, I only said we shouldn’t mix religion with our struggle.

“Please I want to implore all Yorubas not to create confusion over the current struggle. He is a pastor, I’m a Christian, So how can I be abusing a cleric? I did not abuse or mock him. Let people desist from spreading such information.”