I Will Marry A Fresh Girl As My Wife, Not Old Like Florence — Obinim Drops Another Bombshell

Bishop Obinim is in the news again. And this time, his words have left many Ghanaians shocked, angry, and speechless.

Speaking during a church service, Bishop Daniel Obinim, founder of the International God’s Way Church, declared that he will marry a fresh girl as his wife. Not old like Florence, he said. A young fresh girl.

Those words, spoken on the pulpit, have gone viral. And Ghana is talking.

For months now, the marriage between Bishop Obinim and his wife, gospel musician Florence Obinim, has been falling apart in public. The two have been married for over twenty two years. They share children. They built a church together. They built a name together.

But now, instead of settling their issues at home, everything is playing out on camera, on stage, and on social media.

Florence has filed a fresh lawsuit against him at the High Court in Accra, demanding five million cedis in damages for alleged defamation. Obinim, on the other hand, has been telling his congregation that many women are chasing him, including virgins, and that there are thousands of women more beautiful than Florence.

Now he has gone further. He says he will marry a fresh girl.

Many Ghanaians are asking one simple question. Is this how a man of God should speak about his wife?

Florence is not a stranger. She is the mother of his children. She stood by him through scandals, through court cases, through attacks. She stayed when many women would have left.

To hear her husband call her old on the pulpit, and to hear him say he wants a fresh girl, has broken the hearts of many women. Some say it is disrespectful. Some say it is cruel. Some say it is a sign that he has forgotten the vows he made before God.

Others say it is just talk. They say Obinim is hurt because Florence left. They say a broken heart is making him talk like this.

But even if it is pain, should a pastor use the pulpit to shame his wife?

The biggest worry is not just the marriage. It is the church.

When a pastor turns the pulpit into a place to discuss his divorce, to talk about fresh girls, and to attack his wife, what is he teaching the young people listening?

Young men in the church are watching. Young women are watching. Children are watching. And they are learning that it is okay to throw away a woman after twenty two years, just because you want something fresh.

Whether Bishop Obinim will really marry a fresh girl or not, only time will tell. But for now, Ghanaians are pleading for peace.

They are asking him to stop shaming Florence in public. They are asking Florence to find peace too. They are asking both of them to remember the children caught in the middle.

Marriage is not a joke. It is not a market where you throw away old and buy fresh. It is a covenant.

And a man of God should know that better than anyone.

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