Ex-RCCG Pastor Iluyomade Opens New Church In Lagos

Months after his resignation as the senior pastor of City of David Parish of RCCG, Region 20, Lagos, Pastor Idowu Iluyomade has started his own church.

LEADERSHIP gathered that the church, which is also based in Lagos, is named ‘Family Fellowship’.

Recall that Iluyomade was earlier suspended by the leadership of the RCCG for throwing an elaborate 60th birthday party for his wife,
Dr. Siju Iluyomade, shortly after the death of Herbert Wigwe, a member and financier of his parish.

The cleric was thereafter transferred to another parish of the church following the outcries that greeted the birthday bash.

Iluyomade was later moved to the Throne of Grace, Ebute Metta headquarters of the church after he was suspended for three months

He subsequently resigned his pastoral relationship with the RCCG and has been rumoured to begin a new ministry since then.

A video surfaced on Monday, showing Iluyomade and his new congregation dancing at the new church during a Sunday service.

Wigwe, co-founder of Access Bank, was among six people killed in a helicopter crash in California, the United States in February 2024.

He died alongside his wife, son, and a former president of the Nigerian Stock Exchange in the crash.

The chartered helicopter was on its way from Palm Springs to Boulder City in Nevada when it went down about 96km (60 miles) from Las Vegas.

The 57-year-old banker was on his way to Las Vegas to attend Sunday’s Super Bowl.