10M Charges: Pastor Oyemade Slams Abuja Cleric Over Comment; Reveals Mercy Chinwo Sang For Free At Covenant Church

Poju Oyemade, the Senior Pastor of The Covenant Nation and Convener, The Platform Nigeria, has negated claims by a Catholic priest in the Abuja, Federal Capital Territory Archdiocese, Rev. Fr. Chinenye Oluoma, that gospel superstar Mercy Chinwo often charged huge amounts to sing at churches.

The Abuja Bishop earlier had said,

“We have made religious worship expensive. If I have to bring Mercy Chinwo to come here and sing, how much will I pay her? How much does a gospel artiste of Mercy Chinwo’s status charge to come to an event or in a Church, it has reached N10m now.”

“This is the tragedy that we have turned Christianity into, that an artiste will come to a church and lead in ten minutes praise and worship for N10m, N5m. So if that particular artiste doesn’t sing Jesus you love me too much, that means God didn’t love you too much?”

“And some people were asking should they be paid?Why didn’t you pay them? If you must bring them you must pay them because what you are bringing them for is entertainment. We have turned worship into entertainment.”

“We have copied the world. In those days, those who composed songs we are still using for worshipping nobody even knows them,” he said.

Oyemade who took to his verified Twitter page on Thursday to respond to the news where Oluoma claimed Chinwo charges 10m to minister at worship centres, lashing gospel musicians who demand huge payments to perform in a place of worship.

He wrote,

“Mercy Chinwo sang at our service at Lekki last Sunday and the honorarium we gave was at our discretion. She made NO formal charges.”