Nigerian musician, Victor Adere known by his stage name Victor AD, has discountenance the three-part episode BBC documentary investigation into the world famous televangelical preacher and founder of Synagogue Church of All Nations (SCOAN), Temitope Balogun Joshua aka TB Joshua of performing staged miracles and torturing, abusing and traumatizing his members, told by the people closest to him: his Disciples.
Victor AD, on Wednesday, via a post on his X handle laughed off the allegations of the late Prophet TB Joshua being fake. He recounted how the cleric was used to heal him of a skin disease at the age of 6.
He also noted that TB Joshua restored his mum’s hand which was supposed to be amputated due to a gunshot wound and his sister who was healed from blindness during her primary school days.
He wrote: “Prophet TB Joshua fake ke? Person wey God use heal me from skin disease at the age of 6, restored my mums hand that was supposed to be amputated due to gunshot wound, or is it my sister that got healed from blindness during her primary school days. So many wonderful deeds!! Which of these are fake or staged? When my family and I were homeless he gave us shelter and fed us. God is not a man. Say whatever you like. E no go change God from being God.” #tbjoshualegacyliveson
Meanwhile, a viral video from SCOANTBJoshua X handle has shown the moments Victor AD healed his mother in a video call after he got what he described as “anointing water” from the church and spraying it on the screen of his phone while screaming “Be healed” upon sighting his mother’s “injured hand”.
Social media has gone agog, following a three-part expose by the BBC Africa Eye.
The over-150-minute long video, divided into three episodes and published on YouTube, titled, “Disciples: The Cult of TB Joshua”, showed video testimonies of several witnesses levelling multiple damning allegations against the late prophet.
The testimonies, from former disciples and church workers, alleged that the prophet manipulated and physically abused them into staying with him for many years.
Most of them, mostly from the United States of America, the United Kingdom, Namibia, and South Africa stated that they spent between 10 and 14 years in the Synagogue based on that manipulation.
However, reacting to the allegation, a public affairs analyst and member of the SCOAN, Mr Dare Adejumo, on Tuesday, faulted the BBC documentary on the founder of the church.
He described the documentary as unfounded, noting that the characters interviewed in the report were unknown to the church.