Popular Afrobeats musician Oludipe Oluwasanmi David, universally known as Spyro, has detonated a massive wave of conversation across the internet after releasing an unfiltered, deeply passionate video calling out Nigeria’s most prominent religious leaders over their absolute silence regarding the country’s worsening security challenges and economic hardship.
In a raw, screen-glueing broadcast shared on his Instagram page on Tuesday, May 26, 2026, the “Who’s Your Guy” crooner threw diplomatic caution to the wind. He expressed intense frustration that the nation’s largest churches and mosques are carrying on with business as usual—holding regular crusades and preaching standard sermons—while the masses face a terrifying wave of violence, fear, and economic strangulation.
A visibly exhausted Spyro declared that the current state of affairs across the country has become completely unbearable, making the continued detachment of influential spiritual guides deeply troubling. He argued that religious institutions hold a profound social responsibility to act as the conscience of the nation and aggressively hold authorities accountable during national crises.
“I never ever thought that a day like this would come, that I’ll be calling out the people that I respect so much. But at this point, water don pass garri; the happenings in this country are sickening, exhausting, stressful. Any church that is preaching any message that is different from what is happening in this country and speaking up for the people and speaking to the government, you are wrong. Any mosque right now that is speaking anything different from what is happening in this country right now, you are wrong.”
The singer noted that while a few younger spiritual figures within the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN), like Pastor Emmanuel Iren, have tried to address the national tension, the heaviest hitters in the religious space remain completely silent. He boldly named the country’s most celebrated Christian and Islamic clerics, demanding to know why they have shielded themselves from the ongoing national emergency.
“Where is Pastor Adeboye in all of this? Where is David Oyedepo in all of this? Where is Pastor Kumuyi in this? Where is Pastor Bolaji in this? Where is Jerry Eze in this? And for the Muslims, where are your sheikhs? What are they saying? Where are the alfas? What are they saying? Now is not the time to sit around holding crusades and services. The country is on the verge of collapse.”
Spyro backed his argument with biblical context, pointing out that historical prophets were divine activists raised to directly confront oppressive administrative systems and protect the vulnerable. Pointing to recent tragic events, including fatal abductions and coordinate bandit attacks on schools in Oyo and Plateau states, the artist questioned why spiritual leaders are failing to declare a state of emergency within their own domains.
The musician’s fiery charge has instantly set social media spaces on fire, igniting fierce, highly polarized debates on X (Twitter) and Instagram. While an overwhelming majority of fans, youth groups, and long-suffering citizens are aggressively validating his stance—praising him for using his platform to speak truth to both political and religious power—loyalists of the prominent clergymen are pushing back, arguing that spiritual leaders often employ quiet, behind-the-scenes diplomacy and intense intercessory prayers rather than public media call-outs.
