GKS President, Aighalua, removed

The President of God’s Kingdom Society (GKS) Warri, Brother Emmanuel Aighalua, has been removed. 

He was removed yesterday by the Church’s Council of Minister, which found him guilty of grave allegations. 

An impeccable source in the church confirmed the development last night in a phone interview.

He said Aighalua, who was installed as the third president of the church on September 1, 2001, was removed for bringing the church into disrepute. 

The lawyer-turned-preacher, sources said, was found guilty of dictatorial tendencies. 

A source said: ‘’He ran the church as if it is his personal empire. He was a one-man army, doing everything on his own without carrying the general church along.

‘’Whatever he wanted stayed and what he did not want was not allowed. The man was a real dictator and the council could no tolerate him’’. 

Aighalua, it was learnt, was also accused of leaving the country for many months sometimes last year without clearance from relevant church’s authorities. 

The foreign trips allegedly took him to America and many European countries with the Nigeria’s church left without leadership. 

‘’What was he doing out there for many months, leaving the flock here without a shepherd? That was a needless trip for personal comfort at the detriment of the church,’’ another source informed yesterday. 

The Council found the trips worthless to the church’s interest and discovered several millions were squandered in the process, it was gathered. 

The council, it was further learnt, also faulted Aighalua’s amendment of the church’s constitution without due process. 

The amendment, sources said, was carried out to fortify the former president’s grip in the church and prevent being checked. 

The Ministers reportedly expressed serious protestations for Aighalua’s audacity to tinker with the church’s constitution without laid down procedures. 

‘’The new amendment places him high above every scrutiny and check. It was a clever manoevuring to shortchange everyone else and we were really incensed about it,’’ a prominent Minister informed. 

He said the council found Aighalua’s explanations terribly untenable and faulty. 

Aighalua, it was also learnt, bought Sport Utility Vehicles (SUVs) sometimes last year with church’s funds. 

When confronted over the acquisition, he allegedly lied the vehicles were donated by the Saint Paul society, a prominent group in the church. 

Sources said tensions have been building in the church over all these allegations in the last few months, which Aighalua has been working to douse. 

He reportedly reached out to powerful forces in the church that could not prevent his removal.

The last straw that broke the camel’s back, sources said, was the case of a female member of the church who was impregnated last year. 

Aighalua, who is her mentor, allegedly refused to discipline or ex-communicate the lady according to church’s rules and regulations. 

That inaction, it was learnt, set the ball rolling for the council of ministers to put paid to Aighalua’s reign. 

Impeccable sources said his removal, which is being kept under wraps, will be announced today at branches of the church worldwide. 

Checks revealed Lagos branches of the church will hold a combined service today for the announcement, which is bound to generate ripples among millions of the church’s members.