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Tope Alabi |
Pastor Ireti Ajanoku |
It's no longer news that the
father-daughter relationship between popular female gospel singer, Tope Alabi
and her spiritual father, Prophet Ireti Ajanaku of Christ Victory Chapel
International, Ayobo, Lagos has gone sour over irreconcilable differences.
Fresh facts have just emerged on
what smeared the 13 years relationship between the duo. A very dependable
source told First Weekly that part of the reasons for the imbroglio between the
two personalities was that Tope was playing hide and seek with the acclaimed
man of God.
Tope and her husband, Soji were
reportedly going to the church whenever they deemed fit and concentrated more
on their music engagement instead of participating in church activities as
against what they used to do in the past.
According to a close source,
Tope's current posture was not what they agreed upon before the man of God
anointed her music ministry many years back.
A reliable source said that
before Tope Alabi climbed the success ladder, she used to go to Prophet
Ajanaku's church on commercial motorcycle (okada) and used to cry profusely
each time she met the man of God as she was desperate for breakthrough, adding
that she is now biting the fingers that fed her.
The final straw that broke the
camel's back, sources said, happened during the 2012 cross over night. Sources
at the programme on the night of December 31st 2012 confirmed to First Weekly
that Tope, who used to sit in the front row among the church officials, avoided
the seats and went to sit in the midst of other worshippers as she had started
having problems with her spiritual father then.
This sudden attitude of Tope, we
were told, didn't go down well with Pastor Ajanaku. However, acting on impulse
on a very swift manner in accordance with the Biblical Prophet Samuel when he
anointed David, while King Saul was still reigning, Pastor Ajanaku reportedly
collected the micro-phone and announced a younger female gospel artiste,
Ifemide, who was attending the church for the first time.
Pastor Ajanaku reportedly told
Ifemide to kneel down and told the congregation that a new baby has just been
born. Ajanaku allegedly told Ifemide to carry on with the work of God with his
full backing and the anointing of the Holy Spirit. Pastor Ajanaku reiterated
further that the anointing has been taken from someone else and given to the
young lady.
Our sources said that Tope was
really shattered by the events that were unfolding right in her very eyes. She
was said to have developed cold feet and started shedding tears, and that the
singer with a sonorous voice immediately vacated her seat and left the church.
She reportedly complained bitterly to a close buddy that the disgrace was too
much for her to bear, and she allegedly left the church a sad person on New
Year day, when everybody was in a celebration mood.
Sources maintained that the
father-daughter relationship between her and the prophet unceremoniously came
to an end that day.
Our source said that Pastor
Ajanaku warned Tope Alabi on the consequences of her actions on several
occasions.
"My Brother, you can't be
close to someone like Pastor Ajanaku and be committing adultery and believe
that he would not find out. Tope had been warned to stop sleeping around,” said
a source.
Those who should know said that
Soji is the number three man Tope Alabi would marry. They said that the
beautiful gospel act had a boy for her first husband, who is now 23 years old
and that she lost the baby she had for her second husband to death.
“When you bite more than you
could chew, you would not be able to eat again. Tope bit more than she could
chew. Go and ask her, who prophesied to her 13 years ago that she would have
babies for her current husband and that she would be so busy making money as a
gospel artiste such that she would not even have time for any other thing,”
said a source.
Ajanaku however felt that it was
high time she concentrated on her work as a minister of God and leave the
things of the world.
A source maintained that Tope
Alabi has been sleeping around with prominent men in the society and that this
is unexpected of a gospel artiste.
On the allegation that Pastor
Ajanaku was making passes at Tope, the source said that this was far from the
truth because, according to him, the anointed man of God would never toy with
such a sin, especially that she related with Tope like his daughter.
When called on the phone to react
to the allegations, Tope's husband, who always pick her calls, insisted that he
and his wife had nothing to say on the matter.
He said: “people have been
writing a lot about the matter and we also heard that Prophet Ajanaku has been
saying a lot of things on the issue, we are less concerned about that, God is
on the throne. The truth will come to the forefront, when the time comes, but
for now, we will keep our fingers crossed. I will never be forced to say
anything on this issue, God knows what transpired and He would judge, when the
time comes.”
Meanwhile Ifemade, who is now the
apple of the eyes of the acclaimed prophet, is gradually becoming the toast of
events organizers in Lagos. The young gospel act performed at the recently held
Global News Awards, which held with fanfare in Ikeja, Lagos.