Dr Joe Okei-Odumakin, President, Women Arise and Centre for Change, has described the passing of Pastor Taiwo Odukoya, Founding Pastor of The Fountain of Life Church, as a rude shock.
Okei-Odumakin made this known in a condolence message titled: ‘Pastor Taiwo Odukoya: So long’ on Tuesday in Lagos.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the deceased was husband to late Pastor Bimbo Odukoya, who died in a plane crash in December 2005.
According to a press statement by the church, Odukoya died on Monday in the USA at 67.
“We are in total submission to you Lord!!! We thank the Lord for the gift of a great leader!!!” it said in a tweet.
Okei-Odumakin, reacting, said, “Only men with the confidence of the “true call” yield the resource of life to toil in the Vineyard.
“It is a rude shock, but so is the passage of great men.”
The human rights activist also described the late cleric as ‘End Time General’ who led the flock towards the feet of Christ in spite of his huge losses and vicissitudes of life.
According to her, he rose to glory as an end time General.
“This surely is our terrestrial loss but a great celestial gain. Goodnight, till resurrection.”
The late Odukoya had remarried in January 2010, to Pastor Nomthi, a South-African, but again, lost her, to cancer, in 2021.
(NAN)