Aside from wearing the crown of kingship, Oluwo of Iwo land, Oba Abdulrasheed Akanbi, has revealed how God has given him power to command the rain to stop and also heal sick people. The Oba who is married to a Jamaican woman, said whoever relies on pastors and sleep at night waiting for pastors to pray for him is a loser.

He believes that everyone is supposed to be responsible for his growth spiritually and that one has to have a direct connection with God.

Oba Akanbi further reveals and explains why there is a need to have a relationship with God. Despite being an Oba who is expected to worship lesser gods and carry sacrifices because of culture, Oba Akanbi has come out to say that he believes so much in God and he is living his life for God. In his explanations he further said,

“I can command the rain to stop. I have done it more than once. He said he is an Oba who doesn’t worship lesser gods, an oba that worships no other thing than God who does not sleep. If you have a pastor that sleeps that you are relying on, you are going to lose,” he told Premium Times.

“If you have an Imam who has a wife and when he sleeps by his wife in the night, you call him and he can’t pick your call, you know you are a loser.

“If you have a babalawo as your backbone, your backbone will break. I have only God. It is not about Islam, it is not about Christianity, it is not about babalawo, it is about divinity.”

He added, “Many things about the Yoruba culture and traditions are divine. Any function that I am attending and there is no canopy and there is rain coming I will tell it to go away.

“Many people have witnessed it in many places. There was even one with thundering and lightning, I said I am outside here, go back.

“There was another one, I told that rain, go to Lekki. Yes, and it would never rain. I have the power to say that, with the power of God and the position I am sitting in.

“That is why when I pray to God, I can command sickness to leave the person it is affecting to come to me. If I want to take anything like sickness or poverty from the land, I have to give it back to God that owns it.”