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fueling the lingering factional crisis brewing in the Christ Apostolic Church (CAC) with implications on members’ morale and spiritual growth, apriest in the church, Pastor Adeleye Gegeoju has alleged. Gegeoju,a pastor at Tabernacle of Love District, an assembly of CAC Worldwide, saidthis kind of crisis was not expected in any religious setting, saying time “hascome for leaders to stop running the church like a political party.” Hemade this allegation in Ifaki Ekiti, Ido-Osi Local Government Area (LGA), EkitiState yesterday, while commencing a one-week revival under a theme: ‘Let ThereBe Unity and Peace in Nigeria’. Healleged that the lingering factional crisis brewing in the Church was affectingthe morale and spiritual growth of members.
Onthe prolonged division in the church, Gegeoju said the crisis, which escalated in 1990 would have been long resolved, but alleged some highly placed leadershad been profiting from the internal squabbles. Thecleric told the CAC leaders that the solid and rocky foundation laid by itsfounder, Apostle Ayo Joseph Babalola, was being eroded by the crisis. Gegeojuexplained that the crisis “started long before 1990. But the internal crisistook another dimension and blew open in 1990 due to differences in the rank ofsome highly placed leaders in the Church.
“Today,there are four factions of CAC with each parading fake certificates of incorporation at Corporate Affairs Commission different from what ApostleBabalola and other founding fathers handed over to the church. “Thecertificate was handed over to the church in 1943 by I.B. Akinyele, Joseph AyoBabalola and David Odubanjo bore registration number 147, but today a lot offictitious certificates are in circulation with their leaders laying claim toauthenticity.
“Iftruly we are serving God the way Apostles Babalola, Timothy Obadare and OlulanaBabajide did in CAC, then all these should not be happening. But I got arevelation that vengeance will soon come against the masterminds of thiscrisis. “CACis not a political party. Some leaders were even saying Apostle Babalola wasfrom Odo Owa in Kwara, but the late CAC founder was from Ikotun Ile, which wasa neighbour to the town. All these misconceptions and lies must stop for our church to regain its integrity”.
Theman of God pleaded for unity in the houses of God across the federation, say ingthis is imperative and pivotal to solving cases of killing, kidnappings andmaiming of Christians by bandits in different parts of the country. “TheChristians and their denominations are supposed to be united in prayers inNigeria with the way we are being killed and kidnapped.
We are now be in subjected to persecution. Rather than face these, churches are fighting each other. “Whoever is dividing the church of God like a political party is not a candidate of heaven, this can’t take anyone to heaven”, he warned.
