The Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) has suspended the senior pastor of City of David Parish Idowu Iluyomade also known as PID.
A letter conveying the suspension was issued over the weekend, reports Church Times.
QEDNG also visited the church’s Instagram page which had fewer than usual posts from the Sunday service and none of it featured Iluyomade nor his wife Siju.
Iluyomade was said to have been suspended for three months by the church’s governing council after a panel was set up to investigate some of the allegations against him.
“It was not Pastor (Enoch) Adeboye that suspended him. The governing council decided to suspend him. I think it’s a decision in the right direction. Though some believe it is coming late. They needed to investigate some of the things people were saying against him and the church,” a top pastor in the church was quoted as saying.
The online news platform also reported that Iluyomade has since been replaced by Pastor Charles Kpandei from RCCG Resurrection Parish of Region 11.
Iluyomade’s wife held a lavish party just one week after a prominent member of the church, the former group chief executive officer of Access Holdings, Herbert Wigwe, his wife Chizoba and son Chizi and several others died in a helicopter crash in California, United States on February 9.
Many said the party held at Eko Hotel and Suites in Lagos was done in bad taste.
The church was conspicuously left out of the Wigwe’s family funeral.
