RCCG pastor suspended over wife’s lavish birthday party days after Herbert Wigwe’s passing opens own church

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.

They were transferred to the Headquarters of the church in Ebutte Metta to worship but have now opened their own church.