The Nigerian Baptist Convention has expressed satisfaction with the judgement of the Oyo State High Court which dismissed a lawsuit filed by Emmanuel Oyekan and four others against the convention and its leadership.
Justice O.A. Adetujoye, presiding at Court 11 of the Oyo State High Court Complex, Ring Road, Ibadan, had dismissed the suit marked 1/710/2024 which challenged the authority of the convention and its president, Rev. Israel Adelani Akanji, to derobe Oyekan and nine other pastors and to dis-fellow the Ajegunle Baptist Church.
The action, filed in June 2024 by Oyekan alongside Rev. Dr. C.D. Oluwabukola, Deacon I.O. Akanmu, Mrs. B.D. Oyewole and Sister Olajoke Akinyemi, contested the convention’s disciplinary actions conveyed in a letter dated June 10, 2024.
Reacting to the judgement, the secretary of the Board of Trustees of the Nigerian Baptist Convention, Seyon Idowu Koshoedo, in a statement in Ibadan yesterday said all controversies over Ajegunle Baptist Church had been resolved in favour of the Nigerian Baptist Convention.
