A Deputy Continental Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God in the US, Pastor Bayo Adeyokunnu, who is also the younger brother of Pastor Mrs Folu Adeboye, has joined the race for the exalted stool of Owa of Obokun of Ijeshaland in Osun State. The stool became vacant following the demise of Oba Adekunle Aromolaran on September 12.
If Adeyokunnnu succeeds in his quest, he will be the second RCCG pastor from the US to become a traditional ruler in Nigeria. Just about a year ago, Ọba Ghandi Afọlábí Ọláoyè was installed the Soun of Ogbomoso in Oyo State. Ghandi was the pastor of RCCG Jesus House in Washington before his installation as the Soun of Ogbomosho last September. 
Adeyokunnu’s interest in the throne has been made known to some key figures in the RCCG including Pastor Adeboye who attended his 70th birthday celebration in the US recently. At the birthday celebration, when he was about to conclude his speech and pray for him at the event, Pastor Adeboye hinted that Adeyokunnu may be the next king of Ijeshaland. He prayed in Yoruba for him while telling participants at the event, “For your information, you don’t speak English in the presence of a monarch in our land because I am also from Ijeshaland. So I will not pray in English for him because he is a prince and he may be the next king.” Adeboye said, while he went on to pray for him in the Yoruba language.
A close ally of Pastor Adeyokunnu said his decision to go for the throne was born out of his desire to be a blessing to Ijeshaland and moreso that he would be retiring from the RCCG having clocked 70. Apart from being a pastor, Adeyokunnu is a successful businessman with diverse interests in real estate, publishing, aviation, and journalism. He is of the Bilaro ruling house in Ijeshaland. His great, great – grandfather was Kabiyesi Ofokutu I.
Having ministered in different capacities within the body of Christ for more than three decades beginning as a leader at the University Of Ife (now Obafemi Awolowo University) Student Christian Movement, Pastor Bayo has risen to become a Regional Pastor of The Redeemed Christian Church of God in North America. He has pastored different congregations of the Redeemed Christian Church of God in Lagos Nigeria before pioneering RCCG Victory Temple Bowie in 1996. The church today has a membership of over two thousand worshippers. Victory Temple is a winepress that has turned out several other leaders who have started more than twenty-five other parishes of RCCG sprawled around the States of Maryland, Virginia, the Carolinas and Washington DC. As a missionary pastor, he has seen to the establishment of more than 40 parishes of the Redeemed Christian Church of God in the nation of India.
Prior to a full-time call, he was a successful businessman an entrepreneur trading with and consulting for governmental and private companies while also running a travel agency in Victoria Island, Lagos.
Pastor Bayo is the husband of one wife—and the wife is a woman— Pastor Mrs Margaret Adeyokunnu – the Provincial Pastor of RCCGNA MD Province 1; the marriage is blessed with loving physical children (Adedotun, Adedamola and Adebukola) and many other spiritual children.