COZA Abuja Senior Pastor in sex scandal

The Commonwealth of God Assembly,
COZA, pastor is yet to officially react to
the allegation.
Traffic around luxury Thisday Dome
where Commonwealth of God Assembly,
(COZA) holds services was unusually light
Sunday morning.
The long fleet of expensive cars parked by
congregants had been replaced by few
cars and a handful of loitering
congregants. It looked as if life had been
scrapped from the hitherto bustling
church.
This was not unexpected.
In the last few days, the church’s Senior
Pastor has been entangled in an
allegation of infidelity with a former
member of the church that has
snowballed into a huge sexual scandal
that many say might destabilise the
church.
Ese Walter
Barely 48 hours after a former female
congregant and worker of the COZA, Ese
Walter, confessed to having had an affair
with the church’s Senior Pastor, Biodun
Fatoyinbo, another former female
member has come out with claims of her
alleged encounter with the pastor in a
hotel in Lagos.
Ms. Walter had sent social media alight
after she alleged in a blog post that she
had a week-long sexual relationship with
the pastor during his London visit.
According to Ms. Walter, after arranging
for a taxi to pick up Mr. Fatoyinbo from
the airport during his visit to London, the
pastor invited her to his hotel and offered
her alcohol.
“You don’t have to be shy Ese, even if it’s
alcohol, feel free and order what you
want,” she claimed the pastor said.
Subsequently, she said, Mr. Fatoyinbo
invited her to sit on his laps. When she
hesitated, she claimed the pastor told her
to relax saying: “feel free Ese.”
According to her, they kissed and soon
were embroiled in a week-long amorous
affair that left Ms. Walter feeling abused
and manipulated.
Ms. Walter alleged that Mr. Fatoyinbo had
dismissed the guilt she had, saying: “I will
teach you a level of grace that you don’t
understand.”
Ms. Walter, who admitted that the
relationship was consensual, however
said she felt “abused and manipulated”
by Mr. Fatoyinbo and the fleeting manner
the church’s leadership handled the affair
after she raised it with another pastor in
the church.
She said she went public with the story
when she could no longer withstand the
“psychological abuse.”
“I made an effort to reach out to him
because I realized the right thing to do
was talk to an elder in the church and
seek some sort of remedy to a wrong I
believed had been done me. Instead,
Pastor Flo said Pastor Biodun had
confessed to him and they had ‘talked’
about it and somehow that was supposed
to be OK. He asked what it was I wanted
coming to talk to him about it when I did,
I told him I realized what happened
between Pastor Biodun Fatoyinbo and I
was wrong and not just that I felt abused
and manipulated. I also said I thought it
was wrong for Pastor Biodun to go on
preaching without taking time to deal with
his personal character flaws. I said I
thought he was danger to all the young
women that attended the church.”
In a narration that is close to that
described by Ms. Walter, Franca (the
second female) has described how close
she came to being led into a sexual
relationship with the embattled pastor.
Franca claimed the pastor, under the
pretext of doing some computer based
work for him, lured her into Wheatbaker
Hotel, Lagos.
According to Franca, when she resisted
Mr. Fatoyinbo’s advances, he rebuked her
for acting like a “small illiterate
uneducated girl.” She claimed in order to
convince her to sleep with him Mr.
Fatoyinbo had described his wife as a
“postcard…pretty on the outside but flat
and empty upstairs. He said sex with her
was like having sex with a cold dead
fish.”
She claimed Mr. Fatoyinbo, whom she
described as “randy goat with a deflated
erection”, left her after she threatened to
accuse him of rape.

Franca claims she has recordings and
pictures taken from the hotel as proof of
the encounter and threatens to publish it
if the Pastor denies the incident.
An alleged incorrigible philanderer, Mr.
Fatoyinbo is no stranger to alleged sexual
waywardness. From the inception of the
church in Ilorin, the pastor, who the
church’s official website describes as “a
preacher with uncommon prophetic
insight into the word” has been trailed by
allegations after allegations of unbridled
sexual advances to female congregants.
In one case in Ilorin, it was alleged that
he had sexual relationship with two
sisters to the point of impregnating one of
them. Nothing came out this allegation.
In another of such allegation Mr
Fatoyinbo, was accused of having an
amorous relationship with a married
woman.
The pastor who has also been described
as a “power dresser” for his love of smart
and designer outfits runs the Abuja
headquarters of COZA with his wife
Modele.
Its congregants are mostly young,
educated, hip, and stylishly dressed. It
also runs live webcasts of its services.
Online Scandal
The allegation has spiralled into a
massive scandal on social media. While
some have called for caution asking
people to wait for Mr. Fatoyinbo’s version
of the alleged affair, others have
dismissed Ms. Walter as loose and
attention-seeking.
Some others have taking to satirising the
entire affair. Innuendoes such as
“www.anotherlevelofgrace.co.za,” “Henny
and coke” and “come and sit on my lap”
among the most popular.
A Facebook page “Stop This Abuse in the
Name of God Pastor Biodun Fatoyinbo”
already has over a hundred likes.
Mr. Fatoyinbo is yet to officially respond
to the allegation, but the Twitter timeline
of some congregants at the church
suggest he gave a peripheral mention of
the scandal during service.