Anambra-based clergyman known as Odumeje told his congregation in a video that circulated online this week that he will determine “the day” he dies and that “nobody will see” his remains.

The remarks, delivered during a church service, restated claims the preacher has made previously about his death and provoked renewed discussion on social media.

In the video, Odumeje said, “I will choose the day I pass away, and nobody will see my remains.”

He framed the statement as certainty rather than metaphor, telling worshippers that his longevity and manner of departure were facts.

“I never dies. I live forever. And I repeat it more and more when I die no one can see my corpse and that is not a cruise. It is a fact,” he said. He added an image of departure when he said of his end: “when he passes away, he would simply fly away, without anybody seeing his corpse.”

The preacher linked his claim to spiritual language, referring to “the dead man in the battlefield” in the same address. “And that is a reality about the dead man in the battlefield…,” he said, using phrasing that echoes earlier posts in which he described an unobservable or miraculous exit from life.

The broadcast of the sermon came days after an earlier social media post in which Odumeje outlined how his final days would look, reiterating that his corpse would not be visible.

The video that has since circulated shows him making the latest pronouncements directly to congregants in an indoor service in Anambra, and it has been widely shared and discussed on online platforms.

The preacher’s comments add to a pattern of declarative statements about his mortality that have attracted attention from followers and critics alike.

Supporters who view such pronouncements as expressions of faith have shared the clips across platforms, while others have questioned the theological and social implications of a prominent religious figure asserting control over the circumstances of death.