Faith, the wife of Dr David Oyedepo, the founder of Living Faith Churches, also known as Winners Chapel, stepped in after she revealed her husband’s response to a miscarriage scare and he became the target of relentless online criticism from what some have claimed to be a group of feminists, atheists, and doctors.
In a tweet on Monday, Faith Oyedepo mentioned how her husband had instructed her to make him dinner after seeing her bleeding and fearing she was having a miscarriage when he got home.
She said,” “I remember when I was pregnant with our first son, one day I saw blood flowing from me, and when my husband returned home. I told him that I had a miscarriage. Boldly, and without any hesitation. He said, You can’t have a miscarriage!”, and then asked to be served his meal.
“That statement activated the spirit of faith and the pregnancy was sustained.”
The tweet galvanized outrage among many who called Doctor Oyedepo a chauvinist for not considering the plight of her wife who they claimed had suffered a miscarriage.
Reacting to this, Toolz via her Twitter page advised young women not to take Faith Oyedepo’s counsel.
She said “Pls don’t do this. If you’re bleeding from a possible miscarriage… go to the hospital. The last thing you should be doing is making food for anyone.”
Toolz also stated on her page, “I’m so annoyed! Nigeria has one of the worst maternal mortality rates in the world, and someone is here saying ignore bleeding during pregnancy and enter the kitchen.”
However, there were others, especially among believers of the faith that Oyedepo saw it as a demonstration of his faith that the miscarriage would not hold.
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