He recently had his say while speaking during the ongoing 35th anniversary of the church, and Nigerians have been reacting.
According to him, giving out car gifts to first-class graduates in his church inspired several MFM students to start working hard, and he even had to stop dashing out automobiles at some point because he could no longer afford it.
Olukoya added that he eventually replaced the car gift with cash, and the list of first-class graduates keeps rising.
His words, “We are encouraging them to work hard, I believe MFM has the largest number of first-class graduates in Nigeria.
In 2011, the Lord established a programme in MFM to encourage the youth. At the programme, I said to anybody who is a member of MFM and makes a first class, I will give them a car.
Nineteen students made a first class that year, and I have given them cars, I did so at the second edition. But by the third edition, the programme galvanised MFM students to start working hard. We had 77 of them, and I couldn’t afford to give them 77 cars. I started giving money.
The next year, it became 106. By the fifth edition in 2019, we had 329, and we gave them N250,000 each, and today, by the sixth edition, we have 492 graduates.”
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