FOLLOWING his suspension by the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), Pastor Idowu Iluyomade has launched a new church named ‘Family Fellowship’ located in Lagos State.
Pastor Iluyomade, an erstwhile senior pastor of the City of David Parish of the RCCG, was suspended last year over his wife’s lavish 60th birthday party about a week after Herbert Wigwe’s passing in a horrific helicopter accident in the United States of America. The Wigwes were a high-profile member of their church and Herbert, the former CEO of Access Bank.
In a video making the rounds online, Pastor Idowu was seen with some members of the new church dancing and celebrating at their new space located inside the Civic Centre in Victoria Island, Lagos on Sunday morning, 19 January 2025.
The Iluyomades were bashed online for several months after his wife, Pastor Siju, threw an elaborate 60th birthday party weeks after Herbert, his wife and son, passed. They were disinvited from the Wigwes funeral and thereafter suspended by the governing council of RCCG in June 2024.
They were transferred to the Headquarters of the church in Ebutte Metta to worship but have now opened their own church.
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