WAHALA! Crisis Hit Celestial Church As Founder’s Son Disrupts Service, Causes Chaos Over Millions Of Naira Donation
The Celestial Church of Christ, Acts of Apostle Parish in Ketu, Alapere, Lagos, is embroiled in a major crisis following a N5 million donation by the church authorities.
The fight apparently flared up during a Sunday service when Muyiwa Oluponna, claiming to be the church’ s founder’ s son, disrupted the service in an attempt to establish himself as the church’ s shepherd.
According to witnesses, Oluponna stopped Acting Shepherd Adetayo Adetola in the middle of his sermon, taking the microphone and declaring his right to deliver sermons every second Sunday of the month.
A viral video of the incident depicts heated exchanges between Oluponna and church members. In response, the church’ s task group, commanded by Akinbode Adjovi, closed the parish for 40 days to restore order.
Adetola described the interruption, stating that Oluponna asked that the N5 million set aside for church improvements and clergy housing be turned over to his family.
” That Sunday, our shepherd was not around and I was put in charge of the church. I was also assigned to give the sermon. We started the service and everything was going well until he (Oluponna) snatched the microphone from me, demanding to speak.
” I respected him and gave him the microphone because I knew him as a member of the church’ s founding family. He immediately took the microphone and stated that the N5 million handed to the church by headquarters for renovations does not belong to the church, but rather to the family of Oluponna, who founded it.
” He also demanded that money be handed to the family, claiming that the church belongs to the family rather than the community or the CCC authorities.
” He also demanded that he be appointed church shepherd and be permitted to preach every second Sunday of the month. We all remained quiet until he finished.
” After that, I took over to deliver the sermon, but to everybody’ s surprise, he came back and snatched another microphone from one of the choristers and came to the pulpit to give the sermon. That was when we all resisted him” , Adetola said.
When Oluponna attempted to deliver a sermon, tensions rose, prompting opposition from church members. Shepherd Emmanuel Iperepolu also accused Oluponna of making multiple threats and confrontations, which he says worsened after the contribution was disclosed.
Kayode Ajala, Head of Media and Publicity for the CCC, confirmed the church’ s temporary shutdown to avert additional bloodshed.
Oluponna declined to comment on the allegations, saying the matter is between the family and the church.
A lot of people have reacted to this, someone said; ” It is so disheartening and a shameful nowadays that so many people have turned the Church of God to their private and/or family property” .
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