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.
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