Joshua, who surpassed the milestone on the evening of Monday, December 14, thanked his followers in a Facebook post commemorating the feat. “Thank you for joining us in our mission of changing lives, changing nations and changing the world through the glorious Gospel of Jesus Christ,” he wrote, adding that the best is yet to come.
The cleric, who founded the popular Christian channel, Emmanuel TV, beat Pastor Enoch Adeboye, another popular Nigerian pastor, to the milestone by a slim margin.
x Adeboye, General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), has 4,981,000 followers on his official Facebook page as of the time of filing this report.