The General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), Pastor Enoch Adeboye has criticised the planned redesign of the N200, N500, and N1,000 banknotes by the President Muhammadu Buhari-led Nigerian government.

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Governor, Godwin Emefiele had announced, redesigning of the Naira notes.

He said the redesigned naira notes would be released on December 5, 2022.

Reacting, Pastor Adeboye lamented that Nigeria’s situation has become worse to the extent that the country’s currency was no longer worth the paper it was printed on.

He spoke during the church’s November Holy Ghost Service with the theme, ‘Let It Rain’.

currency was no longer worth the paper it was printed on.

He spoke during the church’s November Holy Ghost Service with the theme, ‘Let It Rain’.

“You know what’s going on in our country. It doesn’t even make sense anymore. Our naira now is not even worth the paper it is printed on,” the octogenarian said at the programme held at the RCCG’s international headquarters along the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway.

“And while people are hungry, trying to find enough money to buy bread to eat, our bosses are thinking of making the naira more beautiful, even if it can’t buy bread, at least, it will look beautiful. Oh Lord, have mercy.

“We have problems in the land now. Things seem to be getting funnier and funnier. If you don’t learn to laugh in Nigeria now, you will develop hypertension.”

Adeboye further said God has not told him yet whether there will be an election in Nigeria in 2023.

“Do you know that up till now, and this is November, up till now, Daddy (God) hasn’t told me yet that there is going to be an election next year?

“We continue of course as if there is going to be. I am saying that Adeboye, I am not talking of other people, God has not told me yet. The yet must be in the capital (letters). He may tell me tomorrow; I don’t know but as of this moment, he hasn’t told me whether or not there will be an election next year.

“I am not trying to frighten you. I am not a prophet, I am just a pastor.”