General Overseer of the Tower of God Ministries, Imo State,
Pastor Cletus Nzekwesiri and some executive members of the church
including three co-pastors, last Sunday, engaged in a free-for-all fight
over a cow offering brought for thanksgiving by a member of the church.
A witness who disclosed this to journalist said the show of shame
between the self-acclaimed men of God which occurred at the church
premises located at No 1, New Orlu road, Egbeada/Akwakuma in Owerri
North area of the state immediately after the church service left the
wife of pastor Nzekwesiri (Helen) who tried to separate the fight
bedridden.
According to the witness, two members of the church had brought a
goat and a cow to the church for thanksgiving and when pastor Nzekwesri
attempted to untie the cow from where it was tied, three of his
co-pastors, Elvis Nwachukwu, Ikechukwu Nwogu and Victor Joseph were said
to have descended on him, beat and tore his cloth.
The general overseer was said to have been almost strangled to death
before his wife raised an alarm but that was not before he was said to
have received a broken head and his wife was also alleged to have been
hit with a broken tile on her leg by one of the pastors.
When journalist later met pastor Nzekwesiri who was still nursing
wounds he sustained on the head, he corroborated the witness' account
but only added that the cow was not the genesis of the fight.
According to him, the pastors involved in the fight wanted to relieve
him of his position as general overseer, adding that for the cow, he
only inquired from the co-pastors in whose custody the cow would be
before they descended on him.
Meanwhile, one of the pastors, Nwachukwu, when contacted, claimed that past
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