Crisis In Church As Junior Pastor Impregnates General Overseer

Rivers State Commissioner for Information and Communications, Mrs Ibim Semenitari (right) congratulating the newly elected state APC Woman Leader, Mrs Caroline Nagbo (left) at the party’s congress last Saturday in Port Harcourt.

Crisis of confidence is currently brewing at the Lord’s Delight Ministries (a.k.a Delight Arena) located at 51, Afolabi Street, Ishibiri Road, Ajangbadi, Lagos, as its founder, who is now embroiled in a sordid divorce suit, is accused of being impregnated by a young pastor.
At the centre of the storm is the General Overseer of the church, Pastor Rita Obioma Obiakor, and her minister-husband, Pastor Paulinus Obiakor.
Both are entangled in a web of accusations and counter-accusations of infidelity, and behaviour unbecoming of the clergy.
The duo is before a customary court, sitting at Ojo, Lagos, under President T.A Said, seeking dissolution of their 15-year-old marriage.
When Pastor Paulinus Obiakor stepped into the dock to give his side of the story, he accused his wife of defiling the church by sleeping with prominent male members of the congregation in order to raise funds and establish herself financially.
The land she acquired for the new church and her new apartment, he alleged, were paid for with funds she raised from her illicit sexual affairs with male church members.
“My wife is the founder of the church, but as her husband, I am entitled to be the general overseer of the church. I had suspected my wife was frolicking with the wealthy and influential members of the church.
“My fears were eventually ascertained when she abandoned me and moved to her new church and apartment at Shibiri with a younger man she employed as her personal assistant known as Pastor Nwachineye,” Obiakor claimed.
He further dropped a bombshell, alleging that his wife was impregnated by one of the pastors she employed.
He substantiated this accusation by alleging that she took the man in question to her village and had introduced him to her family members and relatives as her new husband.
“That is a big sacrilege because I am still very much alive and active, so why would she take another man to replace me?” he argued.
His bitterness towards his wife, Obiakor asserted, was that she has been denying him access to their children.
But in her testimony, the Orlu, Imo State-born prophetess alleged that her estranged husband and father of her four children, has turned a thorn in her flesh.
Speaking through her counsel, Godson Samuel, she justified her decision to opt out of the troubled marriage thus: “My husband is on the verge of destroying all the work and effort that I have put in place to establish this church over the years.”
She outlined the heart of the matter: “I got married to him when I was barely 16 years old, and he, 27 years. Then, he had nothing, jobless and looking very unkempt. I started doing odd jobs to make both ends meet. Precisely in 2005, the Lord called me into His vineyard to serve Him and show His people the right path.
She further alleged that her husband’s greed and jealousy has done much damage to the image she had laboured so much to build.
The disharmony between the couple degenerated to the extent that she was forced to buy another plot of land at Shibiri, Ajangbadi, a far away suburb, and constructed a new church, thereby abandoning the old church located at 1, Bakare Street, Amukoko.
She also abandoned their accommodation, and gave up some members of the old church to her estranged husband.
“I moved in with my children to a rented apartment close to the (new) church while my faithful members moved into our new church.”