A dramatic incident ensued
at the Great Salvation Christian Centre, aka Father’s Church, on Ako Aro Road,
in the Ifako-Ijaiye area of Lagos State, after a man, Iberemu Osadebe,
disrupted an ongoing wedding in the church.
Iberemu Osadebe, claims that the bride,
Gloria was his lovely wife.
According
to Punch NG, Osadebe had a traditional wedding with Gloria after they had a son
together.
He,
however, became sick for about five years, during which time he sold most of
his property to seek a cure.
He
later travelled to his hometown in Isiala Mbano, where he continued the
treatment.
He
was on the sickbed when he received information that his wife of 20 years
would be getting married to another man on Saturday, August 29, 2020.
The
43-year-old was said to have developed high blood pressure, which affected his
speech.
He
returned to Lagos on Friday, a day to the wedding, and reported his plan to
disrupt the wedding at the Agbado Police Station.
Upon
arriving in the church around 11am, some of the church leaders, who recognised him,
appealed to him to let the matter go, which he rejected.
Some
members of the National Union of Road Transport Workers, who were said to be
colleagues of the new groom, identified as Henry, were also invited to mediate.
An
eye witness of the occasion noted that the church adjusted the wedding
programme after sensing the building tension.
Fervent
prayers were offered against intruders and plots to interrupt the wedding.
The
church’s pastor was about to join the new couple when Osadebe’s family members
marched to the pulpit and revealed that the woman was already married and could
not be joined in holy wedlock.
Security
guards on the premises, however, bundled them out of the church, as pandemonium
broke out in the assembly.
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