I Am A Pastor, But I Have My Reasons For Marrying Many Wives –Oba Adediran, Owa Of Esa Oke

The Owa Omiran of Esa Oke, Oba Adeyemi Adediran , in an interview with Femi Makinde, explains why he knelt down in a church when he was ordained as a pastor despite being an Oba

How Many Wives Do You Have?

For now, they are many.

Many Wives Even As An Ordained Pastor, Why?

I am a royal father. Pastoral duties are there and traditional duties are there. Even in the Bible, there are circumstances that led some people to marrying many wives. I have my reasons and they are personal.


Thirteen Years After You Ascended The Throne, You Were Ordained As A Pastor, Why?

As a royal father, majorly our duty is to lead the people in the community. If you check the story of David in the Bible, you will discover that David was a king and also a servant of God, so there is nothing strange there. I am so friendly to all religions even my last born was named by the Muslim community. They gave him Usman as his name just to show their love for me and my love for the religion.

Secondly, I was born by a very strong Christian father and I grew up in this environment. Although I had undergone the training, there are many revelations  even before I became Oba that there would be a time that I would become  a pastor. Though  this didn’t appeal to me that time, Pastor Adeboriota came all the way from Akure, that is the founder of the Acts of Apostle Church. He came to request for a piece of land and we gave him some plots of land to build his church and he came with some people to the palace.

When he came I preached to him and talked to him but when I was talking, he got a revelation that I should be ordained as a pastor. I didn’t even know the man at all. I never met him or spoke with him before that time. But that revelation was given to him when he came to the palace.

 He said Lord told him to ordain me as a pastor but he said that he told God that he did not come here to ordain a pastor but to acquire a land and pray for the king. He told me that when I was talking, God told him to ordain me as a pastor but when he said it, I didn’t take him seriously. Another pastor came from Germany called Pastor  Adenuga who is a renowned evangelist. He was to hold a crusade here.  I also didn’t know this pastor before this time.

The crusade was organised by the Christian Association of Nigeria, Esa Oke branch, He came to the palace to see me. He also told me that when he was praying the previous day that he got a revelation that he should come and ordain me as pastor. When he told the CAN members here, they told him that a revelation had come before that I should be ordained a pastor. So, with these revelations, I knew that what they were saying had God’s backing. So on June 4, 2017, I was ordained and by April 22, I would be 14 years on the throne.