City of David elder, Quincy Ayodele reveals how Iluyomade was banned from RCCG says, ‘Adeboye refused to forgive him despite several pleas’

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Quincy Ayodele, the natural medicine practitioner and World Health Organisation consultant has said it was not true that Pastor Idowu Iluyomade rebelled against the Redeemed Christian Church of God before starting his own church..

Rather according to her, Iluyomade served his three-month suspension and had expected that he would be restored to the City of David or any other parish only to be given a letter not to step into the premises of the church.

Mrs Ayodele made this disclosure in a down-to-earth chat with Daddy Freeze monitored by Church Times on his YouTube Channel on Monday March 31.

in the interview which spanned about 45 minutes the herbal medicine advocate gave a graphic account of how the City of David started under the watch of late Pastor Eskor Mfon and how Pastor Iluyomade took over from him..

Wigwe not highest donor

She also denied insinuation that it was late Herbert Wigwe the former CEO of Access Bank, who died in an helicopter crash last year that was the highest contributor to the building of the Trinity Towers of the City of David..

According to her, many people contributed to the building of the tower and some gave as much as Wigwe gave. She said many were as commited to the church as Wigwe citing examples of how people supported projects at the prompting of Pastor Iluyomade

She said Iluyomade did a lot for both the RCCG and the General Overseer of the Church, Pastor Enoch Adeboye wondering what could have led to the action of the church against Iluyomade.

She gave examples of free schools that were built by Pastor Iluyomade, how he fed the hungry every week and how he impacted the larger society using church funds.

Controversial party

Ayodele who claimed to be an insider in the City of David said she was not around during the controversial party that supposedly led to the suspension of the Iluyomades.

she said however that the party has been planned before the unfortunate death of Pastor Herbert Wigwe and that the aso ebi that was taken for the event was sent to Pastor Mrs Folu Adeboye..

While noting that the suspension of Iluyomade was a good step to douse public anger against the church, she expressed deep concern on why Iluyomade was banned from the church despite serving his punishment..

Ayodele said she was always going with Pastor Iluyomade to the headquarters of the RCCG in Ebute Meta for the three months that he served the punishment.

‘We were expecting that after the three months he would be restored to City of David. but to our suprise we were told he was given a letter not to step into the church.’

Ayodele said they had expected that the church would post him to another parish.. ‘But that was not the case. What we heard was that he was given a letter that he must not step into the City of David’

She expressed concern about the action of the RCCG saying, ‘Pastor Adeboye and Pastor Iluyomade were like father and son..They are so close..There is nothing Adeboye wanted that Iluyomade would not go out of his way to make available.’

While insisting that Iluyomade did not rebel against the church she reiterated, ‘He.was told not to enter City of David. Why they did that is only known to our daddy, governing council and God. I cannot answer why. But we are curious.’

She said some elders in the church had to step in when it was clear that Iluyomade was stopped from entering the church. The concerned elders according to Ayodele wrote letters of appeal to Pastor Adeboye and began to plead with him not to take such drastic action against Iluyomade..

They wrote letters and signed their names on the letters to Pastor Adeboye. But there was no response from Pastor Adeboye.

She said the next step the Iluyomades took was to start going to Kings Court another RCCG Parish that Iluyomade.pioneeeed many years ago.

‘The pastor in the church welcomed them and accorded then the honour of the founding pastors only to be told later that they should not be accommodated.’ Ayodele said.

Making reference to the parable of the lost sheep, she said, ‘Pastor.Adeboye taught us that if one sheep is missing out of 100, Jesus would go after the lost sheep..I was now asking will.he now allow Iluyomade.to be lost to the world.’

Ayodele who disclosed she has been in RCCG for about 32 years said she had to be on the trail of Pastor Iluyomade.to bring him back to the church.

I am a church planter

She said she has been so involved with the RCCG to the point of building many parishes for the church with personal.funds. ‘I have brought many people to RCCG.The whole of my family including my husband and children usually put money together to build parishes.

There is one we built in my village that is now provincial headquarters. We are church planters. That is our calling. And it is not that we plant and start going back there to ask for tithe and offering. No. We plant and we move on’

Adeboye adamant

Still on effort to persuade Pastor Adeboye to change his mind about the expulsion of Pastor Iluyomade, Mrs Ayodele said many prominent Nigerians were contacted to beg Pastor Adeboye to no avail.

They went to beg him and he said he (Iluyomade) was paying loan. But he has been paying loan without coming to ask money from you. So why don’t you leave him and let him finish paying the loan.

‘He said it’s okay he will let him come back. He did not. Other people went to beg him rolling on the floor and asking for his forgiveness..He did not.’ Ayodele said.

Asked if the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria intervened in the matter, she said, ‘who will talk to him if God has not talked to him. My daddy ears from God. It is what God says that he tells us and we believe him. He will.say my daddy says’ and we believe him:

Iluyomade did not plan to start church

Ayodele said Pastor Iluyomade never planned to start a church. ‘He does not even know how to start a church.He was an Anglican before he joined RCCG. His father was a reverend. He had left Anglican for almost 32 years. If he goes back to Anglican where is he going to start from.’

She disclosed that the people the Iluyomades were helping abandoned them in their moment of trials. ‘I can tell you that..They were not even praying for him in the City of David that he left. That was what made me go to him. When I got to him he was weeping telling me that he was told not to step into the church:

Ayodele. said she was moved to tears when Pastor Adeboye insinuated during his visit to City of David on Sunday March 30 ‘I started wondering that is this my daddy that is talking..what is going on.:

She said she did not follow Iluyomade when he started his church because she believed the matter could still be resolved and that she was playing a mediation role.

Ayodele.said it was people in Pastor Iluyomade’s neighbourhood that came to meet him for prayers because they knew he is a pastor. ‘So he was praying for.them and fellowshipping with them. That was how the church started. He never planned to start a church.’

She said if she has the grace of meeting Pastor Adeboye she would be him frantically and appeal to him to forgive Pastor Iluyomade.