The
crisis triggered off by the management of the N5m donated by Governor Kayode
Fayemi of Ekiti State to St. Paul Millennium Church,Odo Owa Ekiti seems to be
heightening as some church members threatened on Thursday to sue the Bishop of
Ekiti West Anglican Diocese, Most Rev. Oludare Oke.
The
members were angry with the bishop for demoting the church’s vicar, Rev. Mike
Ogunniyi, from an archdeacon to a canon. The bishop demoted Oguniyi because he
disragarded his (bishop) advice to save the money. Instead the vicar bought a
N3m bus for evangelism and renovated the church.
Two
members of the parish Provincial Church Council told PUNCH Metro that some
church members had resolved to drag the bishop to the court if he refused to
reverse his decision on the vicar.
The
members had protested the demotion on Sunday, preventing those that turned up
for the Sunday service from having access to the church.
The
church members, who pleaded not to be named on Thursday, explained that the PCC
decided on what to use the donation for and the pastor was just informed of the
decision of the council.
One
of them said, “The demotion of the vicar has a damaging effect on the status of
the church because the church could no longer be regarded as the seat of the
archdeaconry. In fact, we might be left with no other option but to pull out of
the diocese.
“The
venerable cannot decide what to do with the money. The governor announced the
donation to St. Paul Millennium Church in the presence of everybody during the
burial of late Archbishop Abiodun Adetiloye.
“The
cheque was written in the name of St. Paul’s Millennium Church and
it was written at the back of the cheque that it was to be used for evangelism.
“
They
(church members) said that the money was spent for the purpose for which it was
meant adding that the bishop had no justifiable reason to demote the vicar.
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