Stories gushed out when Pastor Rita Obioma Obiakor, founder of
Lord’s Delight Ministries located at No.51 Afolabi Stree, Ajangbadi in
Lagos went to court against her husband, Pastor Paulinus Obiakor, to
dissolve her 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.
When it was the turn of the husband, he said:
“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.
The case has however been adjourned.
Courtesy: Olufamous
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