At 83, Pastor Enoch Adeboye still knows how to make Nigeria talk.
During a live service on Wednesday, December 10, 2025, the Redeemed Church General Overseer dropped a personal bombshell that instantly went viral: the moment his ministry started keeping him in the office until 2 or 3 a.m., he fired every female secretary.
Not out of anger. Not because they were incompetent. Simply because, in his own words, “I know the dangers of being left alone at night with people of the opposite gender.”
He painted the picture vividly: everyone has gone home, the last visitor leaves, and a “wonderful child of God” secretary pops in at 2 a.m. offering a relaxing cup of tea. The congregation burst into knowing laughter before he cut it short with a dramatic “Jonah…” — reminding everyone how even prophets run from temptation.
Within hours, the 86-second clip racked up hundreds of thousands of views. Some hailed it as rare honesty from a man who has been married for 58 years without a whiff of scandal. Others called it 2025’s newest exhibit of “respectability politics” that quietly punishes women for men’s impulses.
This isn’t the first time Daddy G.O has said it — similar remarks surfaced in 2019 — but the fresh delivery, complete with that late-night tea scenario, hit differently.
While feminists drag the quote on X, thousands of pastors and married men are quietly nodding: better to remove the match than play with fire.
One thing is clear — whether you call it wisdom or weakness, Pastor Adeboye just reminded an entire generation that even saints don’t trust themselves at 2 a.m.
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