{"id":80188,"date":"2025-12-14T07:28:53","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T07:28:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=80188"},"modified":"2025-12-14T07:28:53","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T07:28:53","slug":"oyedepo-says-1bn-wont-draw-him-into-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/12\/14\/oyedepo-says-1bn-wont-draw-him-into-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"Oyedepo Says $1bn Won\u2019t Draw Him into Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Sarah Sam Adda<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Bishop David Oyedepo, Presiding Bishop of Living Faith Church Worldwide (Winners Chapel), has said no amount of money, including $1 billion, could persuade him to join partisan politics, insisting it is outside his divine calling.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at Shiloh 2025, the church\u2019s annual convocation, Oyedepo urged members to focus on their God-given assignments, stressing that true influence comes from operating within one\u2019s calling.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPartisan politics is off my calling. If you give me $1 billion, I won\u2019t join politics,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He also warned of present global darkness and urged believers to rise as an end-time army, like Joseph and Daniel, to address national and global crises.<\/p>\n<p>Shiloh 2025, which began December 9 at Faith Tabernacle, Canaanland, Ota, Ogun State, will end December 14, drawing thousands for spiritual teaching and fellowship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Sarah Sam Adda Bishop David Oyedepo, Presiding Bishop of Living Faith Church Worldwide (Winners Chapel), has said no amount of money, including $1 billion, could persuade him to join partisan politics, insisting it is outside his divine calling. Speaking at Shiloh 2025, the church\u2019s annual convocation, Oyedepo urged members to focus on their God-given [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":80189,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80188","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\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80188"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80190,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80188\/revisions\/80190"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}