Pastor Kumuyi, Pastor Adeboye Win Yoruba Persons Of The Year Award
The Founder of Deeper Life Ministry, Pastor Kumuyi, and the General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), Pastor Enoch Adejare Adeboye, have won the 2025 Persons of the Year Award of Irohinodua.
In a statement at the weekend, Irohinodua, the first pan Yoruba news online established in 2010, said the decade-old award is given every year to the most distinguished Yoruba personalities.
The media group said the two clergymen jointly won the 2024 Yoruba Persons of the Year.
A statement by the Editorial Board of the online media stated that Kumuyi and Adeboye, throughout the year 2024, distinguished themselves in the service of God, preaching love and promoting peace across the world.
The group said there is no other person(s) of Yoruba heritage across the world in 2024 that controlled so much influence in the spread of love and peace throughout the entire globe as the two leaders.
“The year 2024 was a fragile era in Nigeria. There were threats of violence and social unrest, and ethnic hatred and fury took centre stage. Even across the world and in Nigeria, the space was riddled with violence, hate, vengeance and human mystery. This was compounded by the fallout of the National elections in the previous year. These two individuals with their words and deeds continued to profess love, peace and brotherhood, not only in Nigeria but across the world,” the statement signed by Mrs Feyisike Adeoye on behalf of the media outfit stated.
Irohinoodua said Nigeria in particular witnessed an upsurge in violence and disaffection, driven by faith and ethnicity, saying Adeboye and Kumuyi rather stirred the whirlwind of harmony in every part of the world where their religious institutions have strongholds.
The group noted that while others used religion to advance hatred and parochial political and ethnic goals, Kumuyi and Adeboye converted their multiple platforms to the advancement of peace and good neighbourliness.
Irohinoodua said though the two individuals came under vicious and violent attacks from their opponents, their responses were measured, cultured and propelled by Godliness.
Adeoye said even though the two hold no political positions, their stars continue to shine all over the world to the glory of the Yoruba nation.
