LATEST ON THE FACE-OFF BETWEEN PASTOR CHRIS HIS WIFE, ANITA

The face-off between the founder of Believers Love World (aka Christ Embassy) Chris Oyakhilome, and his wife, Anita, has taken a new dimension, with Mr. Oyakhilome now removed as a trustee of a United Kingdom’s branch of the church. With Mr. Oyakhilome’s removal, his wife, Anita, now presides over a seven-man Board of Trustee of the N8.2 billion rich branch; church documents reviewed have shown. The six other members of the board are Obi Chiemeka, Ifeoma Onubogu, Nkem Odiakah, Raymond Okocha, Tony Obi and Uche Onubogu, all pastors believed to be loyal to Mrs. Oyakhilome. Mrs. Oyakhilome has for long headed the UK branch of the church but her husband, before what appears his sudden removal, had, since inception, presided over the Board of Trustee of the charity. The new development may now suggest that in addition to the matrimonial squabble the couple is having, an intense power struggle and battle for the soul of the U.K. branch of the church might be going on between the estranged lovers and partners as well. In fact, Mr. Oyakhilome had dropped the first hint that there might be a hierarchical row in the church when he reportedly accused his wife of acting like an equal and wanting to overpower the authorities of the elders she met in the church.