The leadership of Day Star Christian Center under Pastor Samuel Adeyemi is encountering some turbulence; at least this is what inside sources at the church filtered out to National Enquirer. Pastor Sam as he’s fondly addressed by fans turned a year older on Monday 3RD of February 2014 and this we gathered is not unconnected to the reason the pastor and some of his board members are having issues.
According to an impeccable
source, the pastor had actually disclosed his desire to acquire a private jet
as his birthday gift, a request that didn’t go the way of some of his board
members because of the expenses the church had undergone in the year ended 2013.
Pastor Sam is said to be
unyielding and his alibi we gathered is because majority of his contemporaries
are proud owners of the fleet which makes ministration and motivational
speaking, one of their strongest attributes easy overseas.
The source also added that the
man of God already have offers from one or two international companies that are
willing to sell their Jets for more sophisticated ones and Pastor Sam is not
going to miss the offer especially because its considerably affordable.
Pastor Sam we further gathered
has been eyeing either Jet Hawker 900XP which is estimated to be worth $20m (N3.2b), the
type owned by billionaires Dr. Kashim and Sir Aremu Johnson and Gulfstream
G450, which is estimated to be $15m around (N2.4b) same type owned by Bishop Oyedepo.
The soft spoken preacher has been alleged to be secretly window shopping for
either of these two fleets if the board members agree.
It will however be recalled that
the cosmopolitan pastor once told a gathering at the Annual Excellence in Leadership
Conference, ELC organised by the church sometimes in 2012 that “I do not own a
private jet,” adding that the media were just speculating what was not. He
described the news of his ownership of a jet as “rumour that has been there for
sometime especially in the junk media. “It is becoming a source of concern now
that reputable magazines and newspapers are saying the same thing.”