
( Shouts from the congregation and Pastor looks shocked) Freeze or Daddy Freeze made some comments which were critical of my Father in the Lord, Bishop Oyedepo which I found quite amusing because I don’t think he understands that when it comes to matters of Scripture, a doctor cannot be contradicting a Bishop and besides.” What has the Pastor achieved here? He has succeeded in positioning his adversary as a nonentity whose name he could not even remember. The name just didn’t’ register in my brain. ( Congregation helpfully shouts “ Daddy Freeze!” ) “ Ah yes, before we close, one of my young friends drew my attention to something on social media by someone who calls himself Dr. Let us press the rewind button and see Pastor Ibiyeomie in front of his flock

Very few people can speak eloquently and articulately while incandescent with rage and judging by the video, Pastor Ibiyeomie is not one of them.Īgain, back to the question, how should he have handled the matter ? Pastor David Ibiyeomie muddled his message because anger makes you garble your words. Never ever speak to the world while in a REAL rage. So how should Pastor David Ibiyeomie have handled the matter? One fundamental mistake he made was that he spoke while clearly in a rage. There are a few more subsets of the above named points but let us for the purpose of this scholarly dissertation focus on these seven points. Thou art in life-threatening trouble with me.Pastor Ibiyeomie was incandescent with rage.įirst, let us look at the major points the Pastor wanted to make( not in any order) Someone that is a newscaster, how much does he earn? Someone who is trekking in Lagos… He will soon go to the cemetery.”Īll this was delivered in a harsh and vengeful voice filled with wrath. “I will fight him to the point that he will say which kind of trouble is this.
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I will charge him to court, I will follow him with the law, follow him spiritually, I will fight him till he crashes. “Very soon I will arrest him and charge him and see which money he has. I will kill you I will tear you into pieces” “A broadcaster, does he have a good job? I can’t be alive and you insult my father, that person is not born. He can’t manage his home he is coming to talk on television. Tell him oh! This is the last time he talks about Oyedepo again. “He can insult a father because he doesn’t have a father. Those who have fathers don’t insult fathers” If I’m alive and you insult my father, I will tear you into pieces. “Somebody they gave birth to in a ship, does he look like a Nigerian? That’s a Somalian. Who gave birth to him? If he has a father let him show us his father’s picture” “The day I hear him insult Oyedepo again, I will deal with him.

“that bastard, Any day I hear him talk about Oyedepo… do they know his father? Does Daddy Freeze have a father? That half-caste that is born by a Somalian” “Tell Daddy Freeze, the day I hear him talk about my daddy again if I don’t finish him… Insult me, I wouldn’t mind but insult Oyedepo then…, You can’t insult my father when I’m alive “ Anybody insult my father again, I will pray you to…. So, let us look at the words the Pastor used verbatim.
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Pastor David Ibiyeomie and Daddy Freeze have constitutional rights to free speech and beliefs. Let me issue a caveat upfront that this write up is purely to share insights on communication and not a theological or faith-based evaluation of the merits (or lack thereof) of either side’s position.

It is a lesson I have shared with others over the years and will share with everyone who has seen that viral video of Pastor David Ibiyeomie
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I was taught how to communicate but equally as important, how NOT to communicate. One of the major lessons I learnt very early in my career was the art of communication.
