A recent report which appeared in This Day newspaper claiming that The Founder of Living Faith Church worldwide, Bishop David, was denied Visa to the United State, has been debunked by the United States of America embassy in Nigeria.
The embassy described the report as “Fake News and completely false.”
Details of the report was that when Bishop Oyedepo visited the Lagos Consulate of the US embassy to renew his visa on Thursday, he was refused under the guise that “he did not qualify for visa renewal in its assessment.”
The report further stated that the embassy did not give any other reason to the bishop, except the standard default explanation that the Bishop did not qualify for visa renewal in its assessment and urged him to try again.
According to the paper, Heaven was let loose, when the obviously flustered preacher and businessman, created scene whilst querying the grounds for his refusal. Oyedepo reportedly protested he had been traveling to the states as far back as 1980s and had not violated any rules or committed any crime to have warranted being denied a renewal of his visa.
However, in a swift reply on Friday, the embassy in a brief statement on its Facebook and Twitter pages, described the report as “Fake News and completely false.”
“#FalseNews Alert! Be advised, the reports making the rounds about a visa being denied to Nigerian Bishop Oyedepo are false.
“If you have seen this manufactured item in the media, help defeat this #misinformation by communicating to everyone that it is completely false,” it emphasized.
