- Says church now under a new leader, Pastor Evelyn TB Joshua
The leadership of the Synagogue Church of All Nations (SCOAN) have described as “fictitious bunch of lies and fake news” speculations making the rounds on social media that the new leader of the church has started victimising some disciples perceived as enemies of the new leadership in the church.
SCOAN said the leadership had merely called for an elaborate audit of the activities of the church with the aim of setting the records right since the death of its founder and mentor Pastor Temitope Balogun Joshua and has nothing to do with victimising any one, whether disciple or other members of the church.
SCOAN said the Synagogue now has a new Board of Trustees (BOT) Chairperson Mrs. Evelyn TB Joshua, who has emerged the Leader of the Church.
In a statement by the church’s legal department and signed by James Akhigbe, the story of victimization is a figment of some people’s imagination as the leadership and members of the church are solidly behind the wife of the founder and mentor, who is the new leader of the church.
According to the statement, besides the court’s endorsement of Mrs Evelyn TB Joshua, the new leader also had the support of over 2,000 strong members of the church home and in diaspora.
The statement urged the members of the public, especially friends of the church to disregard the news of fake report about SCOAN as it was concocted to discredit the church and its new leadership.
The statement reads:
“The attention of the leadership of the Synagogue Church of all Nations (SCOAN) has been called to the news on social media about the purported arrest and detetion of some disciples by the newly appointed SCOAN Board of Trustees (BOT) Chairperson and Leader of the Church, Mrs. Evelyn TB Joshua.
We urge the general public and the teeming friends of the church to discountenance such reports as it is a narrative conjured by detractors to discredit the church.
We stand in the light and we cannot compromise the ideal and legacy of our mentor and founder, late Senior Prophet TB Joshua on integrity, spiritual worship, unconditional love and humanitarianism.
The public would recall that on the 9th of September, 2021, the Board Of Trustees BOT of the SCOAN appointed Mrs. Evelyn TBJoshua as its Chairperson.
This followed an order of the Federal High Court in Suit No. FHC/L/CP/1109/2021 which appointed Mrs. Evelyn T.B Joshua as a Trustee. The BOT had also appointed Mrs. TBJoshua as the new leader of the Church with ratification by over two thousand strong jubilant congregation of the Church at a meeting on Thursday afternoon.
Following this, and in view of the discovery of huge cases of financial misappropriation perpetrated in the past few months, reckless individualism and unimaginable acts grossly antipodal to the Santuary with the passing of the founder, the church leadership took steps to secure certain critical assets of the Church with an authorization for a comprehensive audit of the activities of the Church since the call to glory of our Founder and General Overseer in the interest of the global church members and future of the church.
This exercise involved some category of church workers including Disciples and it is being carried out objectively under a regular and absolutely normal environment without any harassment whatsoever to any person or group of persons, contrary to the disingenuous narrative now being peddled by mischief makers. Once again, the Church urges the public to disregard such reports and continue to support SCOAN in prayers as it commences this new phase in the life of the Ministry,” the stated added.