A pastor in Ogun State is embroiled in a paternity dispute with a commercial driver after a secret affair between the clergyman and the driver’s wife was exposed by the couple’s 14-year-old son.
According to The Nation, it was reported that a chaotic scene unfolded at the Cherubim and Seraphim Church, Ona Iye Parish, in the Iloye area of Sango-Ota, Ogun State, two weeks ago.
The commercial driver, Badiru Folarin, accompanied by his family and associates, confronted the pastor and founder of the church, Prophet Abiodun John, over a scandalous paternity claim.
Folarin, whose wife, Morufat, is a church member brought there for spiritual healing, accused the pastor of claiming paternity of his four-year-old child. The confrontation followed Folarin’s discovery of an alleged affair between the pastor and his wife.
Folarin explained that his 14-year-old son, Saheed, revealed the situation to him. Saheed said his mother frequently visited the pastor to cook for him while Folarin was away, and the pastor often visited their home at unusual hours. He also alleged he caught them half-naked.
He said, ”The pastor claimed that my in-law had given my wife to him as his wife. However, the question is, can a woman be given to two men as wife? The pastor confronted me to my face that he is the biological father of our last child, a four-year-old. Yet my wife rained curses on me, saying that Ogun (Yoruba god of iron) should strike me dead so she can enjoy her benefactor.”
He added that “I am a driver. I never enjoyed my wife at home. She was always away to church for several days in the guise of vigils and special spiritual protection.
“My mother-in-law was disturbed about my wife’s continuous absence from home under the pretext of participation in church activities. I did not realise that the pastor was sleeping with my wife.”
Amid the yelling, screaming, and noise at the scene, Morufat told her husband’s family members and onlookers that she had no intention of leaving her husband.
However, when asked to choose between the pastor and Folarin, she admitted that the pastor was the father of the child in question.
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