Daddy OPM Sends Aboy And Wife To Canada On Church Tithes, Promises N20 Million In 10 Years

Aboy and Blessing 

General Overseer of Omega Power Ministries Apostle Chibuzor Gift Chinyere, Popularly known as Daddy OPM has once again set Nigerian social media on fire. On May 8, 2026, the Port Harcourt-based Preacher took to his official X handle with a post on what can be seen update, clarification and theological declaration, announcing that his adopted son Elijah Chibuzor — formerly known as Aboy — and his wife Blessing Chibuzor were at the immigration office to acquire their international passports ahead of a holiday trip to Canada. The trip, he confirmed without hesitation, is being funded entirely with tithes and offerings from OPM Church. According to his report he insists that the marriage is intact. The wife is on a lifetime salary. And in ten years, if Elijah is still alive, she will receive an additional twenty million naira.

The story of Elijah Chibuzor (Aboy) the non-verbal autistic young man who was abandoned at the OPM church gate as a child was picked and raised by Apostle Chibuzor had already been one of the most discussed and interest stories in Nigeria internet space since 2026 began. The story came to lime light when the Apostle made an open declaration on who will marry Aboy following on interview by Lucky Udu. On March 29, Aboy married a single Edo-born woman who is a widow and mother of three, with Apostle Chibuzor announcing a package that included a N10 million wedding gift, a free house, an overseas vacation and a promise of N20 million after ten years if Aboy is still alive. The wedding went viral and reactions ranged from tears to fury. Aboy is non-verbal and requires daily support including feeding, bathing and assistance with basic daily activities. His age is unknown even to the pastor himself doesn't know his real age because of how he was abandoned by unknown woman. Apostle Chibuzor has said that when the boy was left at his gate, nobody told him his name, his tribe or his age. He gave him a name  by himself. The man who married on March 29 may not fully understand what marriage means. That is the reality at the heart of everything that has followed.

He write "Happening Now. My son Elijah Chibuzor(Aboy) and the wife Mrs Elijah Chibuzor was in immigration/passport office for acquisition of their international passports. Remember I am sending them to Canada for holiday. I have already informed my children I sent to Canada on OPM UNIVERSITY SCHOLARSHIP to receive them at the airport and take care of them during their stay in Canada, but it's OPM CHURCH that is funding it using tithe and offering from OPM CHURCH. Please ignore any fake news of government nullification of their marriage. THEIR MARRIAGE IS INTACT. It is just a fragment of imagination of ENEMIES OF PROGRESS. Every human being created by GOD deserves to be happy. Remember she is on a lifetime salary and her only job is to take care of my son Elijah, make him happy and give birth to beautiful healthy children. And if Elijah is alive in 10 years' time she will receive another 20 million naira cash, which is different from her monthly salary every month. GOD IS HAPPY WHEN YOU MAKE OTHERS HAPPY."

There are several threads in that post that deserve separate examination. The first is the confirmation that church tithes and offerings are funding the Canada holiday. The second is the phrase "if Elijah is alive in 10 years' time" a conditional that carries an enormous weight of implication about the pastor's own assessment of Elijah's health and life expectancy. The third is the instruction that Blessing's only job is to "give birth to beautiful healthy children" a directive applied to a woman marrying a man whose capacity to consent to or participate in biological reproduction in any meaningful sense of partnership has never been publicly established. And the fourth is the disregards for any kind of criticism as he discribe them as "enemies of progress" a rhetorical move that forecloses the legitimate questions being raised by describing them as spiritual warfare rather than engaging them as human rights concerns.

People have took to social media with different options and views. Some of the reactions across social media. @JamesOnyeulo wrote: "Sending unhealthy man to Canada for vacation, then abandon the healthy members is crazy. Spending millions of naira for unhealthy man then abandon the main members that needed the money is very sad. The healthy members are there looking for where to get money and start up business." @Kennedy Mbadugha took a different angle entirely: "Sir you are doing good but I have something to say. I wish you can do a DNA test on this woman and Aboy." @Yagazielum wrote plainly: "This young man doesn't have the capacity to make a marital choice." A commenter who asked about Blessing's three children from her late husband raised one of the most pointed questions of the entire debate: "Where are the woman's children? I hear she had 3 kids from her late husband. I hope they're being taken care of too." @Ituma Sunny captured the structural absurdity of the arrangement with quiet precision: "You're paying the woman for marrying the young man. That is not marriage anymore. So what if they look for you tomorrow and can't find you, who then takes over the payment? This arrangement doesn't make sense at all." And a commenter using the handle Future Governor Of Enugu wrote: "Just look at what you brag about using your OPM tithes to do, wasting their resources. Unserious man content creator." While many criticise others were supportive @Moses wrote "God abeg, grant my Canada wish. God bless you sir." @ECOTHTECH 4BAT wrote: "God bless you sir, keep it up, do everyone in your capacity to make your son happy, never respond to negative opinions."

Apostle Chibuzor addressed in his post refers to reports that had been circulating online suggesting that Nigerian authorities had moved to void the marriage on the grounds that Aboy lacks the legal capacity to enter a valid marriage contract. The pastor dismissed those reports as fake news. As of the time of this report, no official government statement confirming or denying any nullification proceedings has been published. Whether Nigerian law which requires both parties to a marriage to demonstrate the capacity to understand and consent to the union has been fully applied to this specific case remains an open question that the relevant authorities have not publicly addressed.

This story simply reveals that Nigerians are  thinking beyond 2026 one pastor, one autistic young man and one widow from Edo State. It reveals a society in which the boundary between genuine charity and performative generosity has become harder to locate. Apostle Chibuzor's humanitarian record is real and documented he built Nigeria's first school for autism, runs free specialist hospitals, and has sponsored over 3,000 young people on scholarships.  His commitment to Elijah over the years of raising him from a child abandoned at his gate is also real. None of that is in dispute. What is in dispute is whether the marriage of a non-verbal autistic young man whose consent to the union cannot be established to a woman who is compensated for her care represents love, exploitation, a complex arrangement that contains elements of both, or something that Nigerian law and Nigerian society has not developed the vocabulary to properly categorise.

The "lifetime salary" framing is the most revealing detail in this entire story. In ordinary marriage, a spouse is not paid. The care, companionship, physical intimacy and shared life that constitute marriage are not employment. When a man pays a woman a monthly salary to be his wife, he has created an employment arrangement with some of the features of marriage layered on top. That is not inherently wrong societies have always had various forms of arranged, compensated and contractual unions. But it is not the same as marriage in the sense that the word carries in Nigerian culture, Nigerian law or Nigerian religious tradition. And when the person receiving the salary is also expected to give birth to the salaried man's children, the ethical questions multiply in ways that a Facebook post cannot fully resolve.

The question about what happens to Blessing if Apostle Chibuzor dies before Elijah's ten-year milestone is not a trivial one. It is the most practical question anyone can ask about this arrangement, and it has not been answered. The house is in both their names that provides Blessing with an asset. But the monthly salary, the twenty million naira promise and the entire infrastructure of this marriage's financial foundation rest on one man's continuing existence and willingness to pay. That is a dangerous foundation for any arrangement described as a marriage.

On the use of tithes and offerings to fund the Canada holiday Apostle Chibuzor has been consistent and transparent about his practice of using church funds for what he describes as welfare and charitable purposes. He does not hide it. He announces it. Whether that transparency makes it acceptable or whether it raises legitimate questions about the governance of OPM's financial resources is a question that belongs to the church's members and to Nigeria's regulatory framework for religious organisations neither of which has publicly intervened.

Make we reason this one together. Aboy no fit talk. Nobody knows how old he is. Nobody knows who his born am. He cannot tell us if he wanted to marry. He cannot tell us if he is happy or sad  like he can't express himself neither physically nor emotionally. The only person wey dey talk for this marriage na the same person wey arranged am, as na him get de money dey fund am with church tithe money, and na him be persin wey go decide whether dey go later pay twenty million naira in ten years.

This matta no be like marriage. This one na arrange marriage with a wedding certificate attached. And there is nothing inherently evil about a care arrangement Elijah clearly needs care, Blessing is clearly providing it, and she deserves to be compensated and supported for what is genuinely difficult and demanding work. The problem is the language. Calling it marriage, expecting it to produce children, to dey call anybody who asks questions as "enemies of progress" na for that statement so start the story and people go dey always ask questions.

Nigeria has a long tradition of people doing extraordinary things for vulnerable members of society outside of government systems that have failed them. Apostle Chibuzor has done genuinely extraordinary things for people nobody else cared about. But "I do extraordinary things" is not a blanket answer to every question about how those things are done. The people paying tithes into OPM deserve to know how their money is spent. Elijah deserves advocates who will ask hard questions on his behalf  not because they are enemies of progress, but because he cannot ask them himself.

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