DISOWNS EVANGELIST TOSHO OSHOFFA AS LEADER !
By Lateef Lawal
The crisis of leadership rocking the Celestial Church Christ [CCC] worldwide will soon be resolved, the Board of Trustees and Pastor-in-Council has assured its teeming members.
To this end. a committee set up to review the constitution of the church will soon submit its draft for the consideration of all stakeholders of the church and after the approval, it will thereafter be duly registered with the Corporate Affairs Commission [CAC] in Abuja.
This assurance was given by Superior Evangelist Samson Banjo in a press release issued today on behalf of the Board of Trustees, who noted that the Board and Pastor-in-Council are making appropriate arrangements for the smooth, proper and peaceful running of the affairs of the church at all its Parishes worldwide.
Setting up of a committee to draft a new constitution for the church, he explained was in deference to a Court decision which advised on the need for the Church to rewrite its constitution as a way of finding lasting solution to its problems, especially the Pastorship of the church.
Superior Evangelist Banjo noted that until the emergence and approval of a new constitution as ordered by the court, " Any assertion,representation, claims and pretentious by any person or persons including the ill-advised and baseless self declaration of Senior Evangelist Tosho Oshoffa to the pastoral seat or leadership of the Church is fake, ingenuity and a figment of imagination and an exercise in futility which carries a grave risk of contempt of court".
The church had sometime ago instituted a court action against one Godwin Bolanle Shonekan to prevent him from parading himself as the pastor of the church.
On March 26, this year, the trial judge, Hon. Justice A.O.Asenuga, ruled that the self proclamation of Mr Shonekan as Pastor was illegal, unconstitutional null and void. He further ruled that the appointment of a Pastor in the church needed re-articulation in a news constitution.
The trial Judge therefore set aside all claims to the position of the Pastor of the Church and the Board of Trustees as one of the defendants has already appealed against the ruling.
The summary of this decision is that subject to the outcome of the appeals, the Church does not have a lawful and duly accredited Pastor for the time being.
By Lateef Lawal
The crisis of leadership rocking the Celestial Church Christ [CCC] worldwide will soon be resolved, the Board of Trustees and Pastor-in-Council has assured its teeming members.
To this end. a committee set up to review the constitution of the church will soon submit its draft for the consideration of all stakeholders of the church and after the approval, it will thereafter be duly registered with the Corporate Affairs Commission [CAC] in Abuja.
This assurance was given by Superior Evangelist Samson Banjo in a press release issued today on behalf of the Board of Trustees, who noted that the Board and Pastor-in-Council are making appropriate arrangements for the smooth, proper and peaceful running of the affairs of the church at all its Parishes worldwide.
Setting up of a committee to draft a new constitution for the church, he explained was in deference to a Court decision which advised on the need for the Church to rewrite its constitution as a way of finding lasting solution to its problems, especially the Pastorship of the church.
Superior Evangelist Banjo noted that until the emergence and approval of a new constitution as ordered by the court, " Any assertion,representation, claims and pretentious by any person or persons including the ill-advised and baseless self declaration of Senior Evangelist Tosho Oshoffa to the pastoral seat or leadership of the Church is fake, ingenuity and a figment of imagination and an exercise in futility which carries a grave risk of contempt of court".
The church had sometime ago instituted a court action against one Godwin Bolanle Shonekan to prevent him from parading himself as the pastor of the church.
On March 26, this year, the trial judge, Hon. Justice A.O.Asenuga, ruled that the self proclamation of Mr Shonekan as Pastor was illegal, unconstitutional null and void. He further ruled that the appointment of a Pastor in the church needed re-articulation in a news constitution.
The trial Judge therefore set aside all claims to the position of the Pastor of the Church and the Board of Trustees as one of the defendants has already appealed against the ruling.
The summary of this decision is that subject to the outcome of the appeals, the Church does not have a lawful and duly accredited Pastor for the time being.
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