Lagos-based pastor, Olumide Emmanuel, has revisited the nasty experience he allegedly had his first wife.
He said he later discovered she had divorced two men before they met.
The founder of Calvary Bible Church revealed reasons the first marriage crashed.
According to ‘Churchtimes’, he says he has not seen the two children of the marriage since 2006, when his estranged wife moved out of the house
He also gave insights into how top church leaders including Dr Daniel Olukoya and Bishop David Oyedepo tried to save the marriage but could not.
Pastor Emmanuel shared his experience with Pastor Kingsley Okonkwo in a recent video chat on YouTube.
The background
It will be recalled that Pastor Emmanuel was first married to Ify. The marriage which produced two children hit the rock around 2005.
The incident generated so much media debate. Many Christians were taken aback wondering what could have led to the collapse of the relationship between the love birds.
Olumide Emmanuel has been a pastor since he was 21. As of 1992, he was secretary of the Morris Cerrulo Missions in Nigeria and was very involved in the book-selling business long before his marriage.
He married Ify a fervent Christian and owner of popular gospel stores in Opebi, Lagos in 1997 at the age of 27. The marriage took place at the Mountain of Fire and Miracles Ministries.
He first got to know his former wife in the course of doing business. “She was my business partner and friend. But later I proposed to her,” he said in the interview.
I was the third man she would marry
Pastor Emmanuel got the first shock of his life when the woman said to him during their courtship that she had had two previous marriage relationships that failed. Ironically, she was still a virgin by the time she met Pastor Emmanuel because she did not have sex with the first two men she married.
“She explained to me that the first man she married could not perform. She later discovered that the man was having an affair with her chief bridesmaid.” Pastor Emmanuel said.
She had to dissolve the marriage.
The second marriage according to Pastor Emmanuel also did not work because the man was giving her some rules and regulations like wanting to have sex before marriage and asking her to close her business in Nigeria. Though they had done the traditional wedding, she could not go ahead with the marriage
He recalled, ‘I remember she said she was going to the UK to marry and later we found out that the marriage did not hold. I knew about the second case.”
