Nollywood actor Yul Edochie has openly clashed with Pastor Paul Enenche after the Dunamis International Gospel Centre leader described visits to traditional priests and support for village festivals as dark practices that block blessing.
The fight broke out on Friday, October 9, 2026, when Enenche posted a clip from his message, “The Divine Nature of the Blessing (2),” on X. In the caption he wrote, “THE DEVIL HAS NOTHING GOOD TO GIVE—SHUN HIM!” and added that every good and perfect gift comes from God. Edochie quoted the post and told the pastor he was misleading his audience.
In the sermon, Enenche told worshippers they could not sit in church on Sunday and consult a native doctor the next day.
“You can’t come to church on Sunday and go to Baba Lawo on Monday. It is not possible to follow dark acts, dark practices, and expect to be blessed,” he said.
He also turned on members who still send money home for local festivals.
“You are still sending money to village for local traditional festivals. Dark, this is dark, and you are wondering why you are not blessed. Some have sent such monies and they have been captured before their time.”
He grouped that conduct with “Yahoo Plus,” said the devil has nothing good to give, and told the congregation to shun him.
“Every apple the devil gives you has worms inside. Every good and perfect gift comes from God. If it is good, it’s from God,” he said.
Edochie rejected the framing.
“Pastor I disagree with you. You’re misinforming the people. Our traditional practices are not fetish. It’s the same God we worship in different ways. Traditional practice is different from doing Juju to hurt people. A core traditionalist will never hurt anyone intentionally. Africans are lost today because we abandoned our traditional practices that made us great and fully adopted the ways of Oyibo people,” he wrote.
Reactions on X split quickly. Some users accused Edochie of universalism and said there is only one way to worship God, through Jesus Christ. Others backed his defence of African practice and said colonialism taught people to treat their own culture as evil. A few reminded him that he once presented himself as a pastor.