Bishop David Oyedepo has denied using church funds to purchase his private jets. In a 2024 video circulating online, Oyedepo stated that the aircraft were acquired through divine provision, not personal ambition.

“The offering didn’t buy it,” he said. “God bought it. There was no person contacted under heaven. No! God said it and I believe it and that settles it.” He emphasized that no church member was pressured to contribute.

Oyedepo further explained, “It wasn’t an ambition, it was an unveiled divine agenda. If God asked me ‘David, when do you want that aircraft to be bought?’ I would have said ‘God, take it easy, take it easy, we are not near ready. Aircraft? Okay, let me find out first how much they sell it.’ He didn’t give us the room to find out. Not the aircraft that would go from here to Ilorin or Ogbomosho.