One wonders the kind of examples church members learn from their leaders these days, giving the kind of atrocities that are being reported about some pastors in recent times.
The founder and general overseer of Lord’s Delight Ministries located at No.51 Afolabi Stree, Ajangbadi in Lagos, Pastor Rita Obioma Obiakor and her husband, Pastor Paulinus Obiakor, are currently entangled in a web of accusations and counter accusations of infidelity and other behaviours unbecoming of people in their positions.BuniBuni.com gathered that the couple recently shared their sordid stories before an Ojo customary court presided over by T.A. Said, where the wife had dragged her estranged husband to. Pastor (Mrs.) Rita, who hails from Imo State, is seeking for the dissolution of their 15-year-old marriage.
She alleged that her husband and father of her four children has turned a thorn in her flesh. Here is her own side of the story: “My husband is on the verge of destroying all the works and efforts that I have put in place to establish this church over the years”.
“I got married to him when I was barely 16 years old, and he, 27 years. Then he had nothing, jobless and looking very unkept. 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.
“My calling was a prophetic one, so was my ministry. Since the establishment of that ministry in our two-bedroom apartment at Amukoko, the Lord has been blessing us. But my husband was like a Judas to my ministry. He was always behaving abnormally to the members, until I made him a part of the church and also gave him a good post. Yet he wouldn’t let me be. He is always accusing me of sleeping with church members during night vigil or anointing services”.
Pastor Rita said 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 faraway suburb, and constructed a new church, thereby abandoning the old church located at No. 1 Bakare Street, Amukoko.
She also abandoned their accommodation, as well as give 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.. So I had to ban him from entering the church and having access to the members too,” she said.
The Husband, Pastor Obiakor stepped into the dock:
Giving his own side of the story the husband brought a new twist to the divorce case. The 45-year old clergy accused his wife of defiling the church by sleeping with prominent male members of the congregation in order to raise fund and establish herself financially.
The land she acquired for the new church and her new apartment, Pastor Obiakor alleged, were paid for with fund 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.
Pastor Obiakor disclosed that his wife, Pastor Rita, has been impregnated by the pastor she employed. He went further to disclose that she even took the young man in question to the village and 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.
But in spite of everything, Pastor Obiakor revealed that he still wanted her back. He admitted that his estranged wife was more like the bread winner of the family before their union ran into troubled waters. He said he is ready to forgive her of her transgressions and take her back as his wife if only she would withdraw the suit.
After listening to the pastors, T.A. Said adjourned to matter for further hearing.
Bunibuni
Jaid man
June 28, 2012 at 4:56 pm
1st 2 comment suckers..
nyatu
June 28, 2012 at 4:57 pm
tumfweko u only hav 3 countries u gosip zim,niger,zam. tefyolyashi lili its a lie
Janet c
June 28, 2012 at 5:02 pm
Men do it all the time – impregnate choir girls, female ushers – so why the uproar???????? Just because it’s a woman!!! get over it – the african woman is now playing the african man at his own game – and she is winning by miles
Aden
June 28, 2012 at 5:26 pm
Janet C you have a brain of an Ameba..you are an embarrassment to nature.
Janet c
June 28, 2012 at 5:51 pm
@ Aden – tell me why it is so shocking then, when male pastors are constantly impregnanting young girls – why the shock???
Rated
June 28, 2012 at 6:01 pm
AMAI BUSA? SHE SHUD COME OPEN HA LEGS I GIVE HA DA 6th CHILD.
TimZ
June 28, 2012 at 7:49 pm
Rated do not abuse name amai busa coz these two guys, to me they all sound to be fake pasters. They are swindling their blind followers who will all end up in jahena.
me
June 28, 2012 at 7:52 pm
janet. C. U ar promiscuous hw do u support dat female pastor, she is a disgrace though ka mudala ka shi pastor na kena kakote kale umfwika kwati kabufi ka chikamba
Y.O.L.O
June 28, 2012 at 8:36 pm
@me i agree wit u ka shi pastor sounds like a lier so i ll hav to take bana pastors side, but not on the janet c bases, more on the he said… she said… this one makes more sense bases
Business Man
June 28, 2012 at 9:38 pm
@Janet C u are a disgrace
Afri
June 28, 2012 at 10:38 pm
Janet c iz tryin 2b famous usin a wrong path wich makez ha a loser o de way…n shz so frustratd n obsesed wit de existence of man bt ma sis u hav 2get of dat huk coz its nt jst chokin u bt u av 2 liv wit de fact dat a man dazn’t wek had 2b a man,hz bon a man until de end,contnu drimin abat u bein in place of a man 1de,u wil die wit dat anyway
Afri
June 28, 2012 at 11:03 pm
Diz animal cod janet c haz neva,can neva,wil neva b a folowa of christ coz sh kant live wit de fact dat JESUS waz a MAN….
y shud wild ANIMALZ b alowd 2 wok inform of HUMANZ like diz janet cat
MEN DIZ…MEN DAT…WAT DE F**k
Kwena ee!
June 29, 2012 at 12:07 am
Insamushi!…they got married 15 years ago when he was 27 years old, now he is 45 years old. Namumufisa pamenso amai busa! Ok naya ku Google!
Joe
June 29, 2012 at 12:08 am
Haha,janet c has all of yal under her spell,she’s an attention seeker and has everyone comenting abt her including me,bt next time ignore her and see what she feeds on,definately nt our cments! And i bet its a ‘he’.
Mel
June 29, 2012 at 12:49 am
janet c, forget the comments from the bush-men trying to pull you down, most of their comments are worthless and useless anyway… I agree 100% with you, Zambia and Africa as a whole need more brains like yours & mine only then will there be progress…
Keep up the good fight for the voiceless poor, Thank you sista!!
bone head
June 29, 2012 at 6:19 am
This is a story about Nigerian pastors. They established a church for business purposes and made money.
They were never in it for the peoples souls, just their hard earned tithe.
The woman gets horny and f.ucks her available secretary. The man gets horny and f.ucks available women.
Till the church is regulated like any other business and forced to pay tax all this conning and f.ucking will continue.
If a church woman spreads her “holy” legs, kutwa.
Women, like men get horny and greedy.
BA ZEDI
June 29, 2012 at 9:05 am
@ Janet & Mel, adultery is adultery whether committed by a man or a woman, it is an abomination, it speaks volumes about your morality seeing that it delights you. And if I may ask how is africa going to progress with broken homes?
Chikala
June 29, 2012 at 9:13 am
Big up Janet! Tell em like it is!
A got browses or “gets browsed” where it is tethered!!
Men chew all the time! What do you think they chew? Women of course. So whats wrong with a female pastor getting chewed?
These are the last days! Deal with it.
Janet c
June 29, 2012 at 9:26 am
@ ba Zedi – Zambia already has broken homes!!! Husbands hardly at home and not present to put their children to bed, or to help them with homework because they are constantly in bars or fornicating with their ATMs.
@ Afri – I mean just read your own comment twice – mixing God with insults. I wonder if jesus would call another human an animal – you are the hypocrites I talk about. You so-called christian/”follower of jesus” and yet you are happy to put insults and Jesus/God in the same sentence – a very BIG shame on you
GMT
June 29, 2012 at 9:52 am
Maweeeeeeeeeee! So the end justifies the means? We’re finished! Kipeto! Kwatha! Kwasila!
wazanga
June 29, 2012 at 10:22 am
bauze that is what we call ibimbi.
DNICE
June 29, 2012 at 10:36 am
This is Nigeria, what do you expect and reading in between the lines, this thing called Rita went in there for business. People, all these nigerian movies we see on Nollywood are a true reflection of what goes on in Nigeria. Thats why i humanly find it so difficult to trust any pastor from Nigeria.
Fletcher
June 29, 2012 at 11:22 am
Ba sikala boza imwe ..
Chama Febie
June 29, 2012 at 12:33 pm
@ Janet c,i support you on this one.you’re right gal
Ng'ani-Ng'ani
June 29, 2012 at 5:30 pm
Janet C, tell these egoestic men who think having a dick in their trousers make them supérior to women and give them the right to fraunt their flaby tummies at young gals….atase imwee bakabalwe.
Afri
June 29, 2012 at 6:21 pm
@ janet c yo way of reasonin dazn’t rily affect me bt wu n wat u represent iz wat am waried abat,u v gat 2many unansawered questionz n dat makes u an unstabo animal
ur obsesion 4 male kind iz goin 2 send u 2 yo dethbed soon…u ar de pipo de devil boasts abat…he makez u tink lik u kno evrytin,u nt even a sh 2 end wit,u ar a he wit a womanish mind,pipo comonly knon az gayz
Mwanamfumu
June 30, 2012 at 4:34 pm
On Mature LUSAKATIMES, we have MUSHOTA. On this grade seven site, we you Janet C kanyo kabola.
wylie eliot
July 9, 2012 at 5:38 pm
fake pastor.
BRO END
July 16, 2012 at 3:54 am
Let me start by comenting on da story itself,we 1st heard frm da wife, and then da hubby reacted 2da wifes and added alot of disagreements and of -ve ones 4da wife…,wel da case was adjund did we hear da other side of da story? or the wife saying wat my hubby said is true? certainly not….if i folowed da story so wel, iam +ve da hubby is da 1 whuz wrong and if wat he said is true then they ar both destroying da image of GOD!!! lets not rush into insulting n pointing of fingers at each other b4 even da ful story hav been published…y caling each other names n painting ur real pics over sum unproved story? in as much as we know dat we living in da last days,lets not rush into judgement quickly b4 analysing issues or things criticaly..
WATI ...ATI
September 4, 2012 at 11:24 am
UKUTUMPA, IMISANGO UBUBI…
ineee
September 20, 2012 at 10:42 am
Old story, read it last year, but anyway its nigeria
zm
October 3, 2012 at 8:49 am
janet c shud be my sweetheart kumbali i need ur contact
shoes
October 3, 2012 at 12:06 pm
What is wrong is wrong NO justification whatsoever.Ladies and gentlemen lets be real in debating issues,”what you think is what you write and what you write about represent what you are” so mind what you write coz we will judge you by your words.
Genaro the Analyst
October 13, 2012 at 9:05 pm
ds lady gained momentum on this man nd yet her being 16 nd him bing 27 at d tym mks t sound lyk sh wz repd to be mared,prophet y wrnt u shwn if ds man wz fo ril or a fuz,divorce z condemnd hu ll u prich t in yo on church,man oso is useless nd lazy. Analyse
Zaigo
October 13, 2012 at 9:19 pm
Mwananfumu seem to be in love wit Jane C. We need to respect human deginity. Adultery is adultery be it commited by man or woman. This time the woman did it just like men do it.