Angry youths protest over Pastor neglect of sick wife

In protest against the assistant pastor,  Daniel Izibili of Assemblies of God Church, Airport road branch, Benin City angry youths disrupted the worship service on Sunday, September 13, 2015.

The youths of the church accused the assistant pastor of abandoning his sick wife and abducting their twin children.

According to Leadership, the youths disrupted the worship service and for about 30 minutes they demanded answers from Pastor Izibili, as to why he neglected his wife who is ill with an unknown skin infection in her father’s house.

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The pastor’s wife is said to have been diagnosed with river blindness after giving birth to a set of twins.

Family sources say that when Pastor Izibili was initially confronted to seek advanced medical advice on his wife’s health, which soon degenerated into boils all over her body leading to the loss of hair on her head and boils all over her person, he refused and claimed it was a spiritual problem.

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It was also confirmed that the pastor claimed that he had run out of cash trying to treat his wife whose health condition had gone from bad to worse in three and a half years to the extent that the woman is now covered all over her body with boils and is unsightly to behold.

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Church officials later told reporters that the youths were instigated by a female relative of the pastor’s wife, who has been accusing him of inflicting his wife with the skin infection.