{"id":73223,"date":"2025-08-14T15:48:54","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T15:48:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=73223"},"modified":"2025-08-14T15:48:54","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T15:48:54","slug":"stop-spreading-falsehoods-about-my-father-babalolas-daughter-warns-pastors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/08\/14\/stop-spreading-falsehoods-about-my-father-babalolas-daughter-warns-pastors\/","title":{"rendered":"Stop Spreading Falsehoods About My Father, Babalola\u2019s Daughter Warns Pastors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Eunice Wuraola Ogini, the first daughter of Apostle Joseph Ayo Babalola, has cautioned pastors against spreading unverified claims and misinformation about her late father, urging ministers to speak only the truth with respect.<\/p>\n<p>Her statement follows comments by Pastor Biodun Fatoyinbo of the Commonwealth of Zion Assembly (COZA), who claimed that Apostle Babalola, despite his spiritual influence, was poor during his lifetime and questioned the whereabouts of his children.<\/p>\n<p>In a video response, Mrs. Ogini refuted the claims, insisting her father was \u201ccomfortable\u201d and that such statements should be properly verified before being made public. She stressed the importance of integrity and truthfulness in ministry, citing Colossians 4:6 to encourage gracious and respectful speech from church leaders.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy father in his lifetime preached the gospel of Christ without compromise,\u201d she said. \u201cDuring his crusades, people brought idols, shrines, and occultic materials to be destroyed by fire. He was a man of God who served with sincerity and power.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ogini further urged pastors to honor God by avoiding speculation and misinformation, especially when referencing spiritual figures like Apostle Babalola, appealing to them to be guided by truth and love in their preaching.<\/p>\n<p>Apostle Joseph Ayo Babalola, regarded as one of Nigeria\u2019s most influential revivalists, is best known for founding the Christ Apostolic Church and leading dynamic evangelical campaigns in the 1930s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata &nbsp; Eunice Wuraola Ogini, the first daughter of Apostle Joseph Ayo Babalola, has cautioned pastors against spreading unverified claims and misinformation about her late father, urging ministers to speak only the truth with respect. Her statement follows comments by Pastor Biodun Fatoyinbo of the Commonwealth of Zion Assembly (COZA), who claimed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":73224,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,1681],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-religion"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73223"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73225,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73223\/revisions\/73225"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}