Corruption Fueling Factional Crisis in CAC, Says Cleric

Corruption is fueling the lingering factional crisis brewing in the Christ Apostolic Church (CAC) with implications on members’ morale and spiritual growth, a priest in the church, Pastor Adeleye Gegeoju has alleged.

Gegeoju, a pastor at Tabernacle of Love District, an assembly of CAC Worldwide, said this kind of crisis was not expected in any religious setting, saying time “has come for leaders to stop running the church like a political party.”

He made this allegation in Ifaki Ekiti, Ido-Osi Local Government Area (LGA), Ekiti State yesterday, while commencing a one-week revival under a theme: ‘Let There Be Unity and Peace in Nigeria’.

He alleged that the lingering factional crisis brewing in the Church was affecting the morale and spiritual growth of members.

On the prolonged division in the church, Gegeoju said the crisis, which escalated in 1990 would have been long resolved, but alleged some highly placed leaders had been profiting from the internal squabbles.

The cleric told the CAC leaders that the solid and rocky foundation laid by its founder, Apostle Ayo Joseph Babalola, was being eroded by the crisis.

Gegeoju explained that the crisis “started long before 1990. But the internal crisis took another dimension and blew open in 1990 due to differences in the rank of some highly placed leaders in the Church.

“Today, there are four factions of CAC with each parading fake certificates of incorporation at Corporate Affairs Commission different from what Apostle Babalola and other founding fathers handed over to the church.

“The certificate was handed over to the church in 1943 by I.B. Akinyele, Joseph Ayo Babalola and David Odubanjo bore registration number 147, but today a lot of fictitious certificates are in circulation with their leaders laying claim to authenticity.

“If truly we are serving God the way Apostles Babalola, Timothy Obadare and Olulana Babajide did in CAC, then all these should not be happening. But I got a revelation that vengeance will soon come against the masterminds of this crisis.

“CAC is not a political party. Some leaders were even saying Apostle Babalola was from Odo Owa in Kwara, but the late CAC founder was from Ikotun Ile, which was a neighbour to the town. All these misconceptions and lies must stop for our church to regain its integrity”.