THERE IS NOTHING LIKE LEGAL BATTLE OR COURT ACTION BETWEEN ME AND CELESTIAL – CCC GENESIS GLOBAL FOUNDER, ISRAEL OLADELE OGUNDIPE CRIES OUT

The spiritual head and shepherd in charge of celestial church of Christ Genesis Global, Prophet Israel Oladele Ogundipe has reacted to the purported news roaming the social media on his withdrawal from main body of Celestial Church. According to the release made available for news men indicated that there is no iota of truth in the story, it is a complete fake news, in his words’ I just spoke with Rev. Pastor Mobiyina Oshoffa, the leader of our church, there is nothing like legal battle or court action between me and headquarter, it’s fake news merchant at work, nobody can dare the massive mercy of Christ in our ministry, there’s cordial relation with me and the general body of the God ordained ministry, how can I quit Celestial church of Christ, it’s too late for that’. It was in the report that the National Headquarters of the Celestial Church in Imeko, a suburb of Ogun State, after the incident of K1’s performance considered as desecration of the altar, attempted to invite Genesis to come and face disciplinary actions on 2 offences. One being the K1 issue, and the other being an offence of bigger magnitude which concerned some actions of Cardinal James Omolaja Odumbaku popularly known as baba Eto in both Celestial Church and Lagos political circles, who also attended the Genesis program in contention tagged: Harvest of Massive Mercy. 

But how exactly did Baba Eto get involve in an infraction worthy of counting against Genesis? This is how: when K1 was  about to drop microphone on the day of the harvest to bring his electrifying performance to a close, Baba Eto made a grand entry into the church which K1 was not initially aware of. But one of his band men rushed to him on the altar on the stroke of the time he was handing over the microphone, and the message that Baba Eto had just stepped in was apparently whispered into his ear. Hence, instead of going ahead to hand over the microphone,K1 stepped back with it to begin a special rendition in honor of Baba Eto who just came in. but that was not really the second offence.

The real offence was two pronged. One was that as against the doctrine in Celestial church, Baba Eto wore cap into the church. It was said that he should have ordinarily taken the cap off before entering the church as a norm. And as if that was not enough, Baba Eto allegedly went on to commit more grievous offence in the church. There are reportedly, 2 special chairs above the altar in all Celestial churches which are reserved for exclusive beings. One is said to be reserved spiritually for Jesus Crist, so no one sits on it no matter who they are. And the other is said to be reserved for late Samuel Bilewu Joseph Oshoffa, the founder of Celestial church, and only one of his descendants who has taken over the leadership of Celestial church who currently is Rev. Pastor Mobiyina Oshoffa, is allowed to sit on it whenever he visits any Celestial church.

But lo and behold, after K1 had made obeisance to him while still singing his praise, and Genesis had come to prostrate for him before hugging him on the altar, Baba Eto went straight to sit on the chair reserved only for the person leading the Celestial church worldwide. Abomination! In the doctrine of the church, that is what it was said to be; abomination. The Headquarters wondered why Genesis did not ask Baba Eto immediately to vacate the seat immediately the anomaly was committed. And Genesis reportedly sent words back to the Headquarters that Baba Eto was too big in the celestial church for him to have challenged like that. For, one, he was quoted to have said that Baba Eto too heads a celestial church of his and well aware of the sacredness of the chair. So, he must have some reasons best known to him to have sat on it. And again, Genesis was said to have argued that late Oshoffa’s wife was in the church as a guest that day too. 

So, why did she keep quite instead of raising issues on Baba Eto sitting on the sacred chair. But the Headquarters was said not to be ready to hear any of his excuses sent in words of mouth but for him to show up personally at the Headquarters to answer to the crime he allegedly engineered against the celestial church. But Genesis was said to have responded to them that he would not come because he had not committed any crime whatsoever. So, it was a ding dong affair between Genesis and the Headquarters for days. Meanwhile, the church service after the incidents which was held on Sunday, 22^nd of December, Genesis reportedly told his congregation that he was withdrawing his church from the main body of the celestial church to stand alone. And he asked those of his members who want to stay with him to stay and those who were willing to go away with the main body to do so by their own volition. And as a result of that said secession, the main body of celestial church was said to have instituted a court action against Genesis on the matter. And how that would pan out in the coming days remained to be seen. But in demonstration of his resolve to secede, members of Genesis were said not to have taken part in general worship by all the celestial church in the country every year which starts few days before Christmas and ends Christmas day usually referred to as “Imeko”. The battle line has obviously been drawn and the last has apparently not been heard of the matter.