The senior pastor of the City of David Parish of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), Idowu Iluyomade, who was suspended by the church last year after his wife threw a lavish 60th birthday party about a week after the death of a high member of their church and former CEO of Access bank, Herbert Wigwe, has launched his own church in Lagos named The Family Fellowship.
In a video making the rounds online, Pastor Idowu was seen with some members of the church dancing and celebrating at their new space located inside the Civic Center in Victoria Island, Lagos.
The Iluyomades were bashed online for several months after his wife, Pastor Siju, threw an elaborate 60th birthday party weeks in which singer Flavour and other entertainers performed, a few days after Herbert, his wife and son, died in a helicopter crash in the U.S. They were disinvited from the Wigwes funeral and thereafter suspended by the governing council of RCCG in June 2024. read here
They were transferred to the Headquarters of the church in Ebutte Metta to worship but have now opened their own church.