New details surrounding the unexpected demise of Pastor Taiwo Odukoya, founder of Fountain of Life Church, have surfaced online.
Odukoya, according to the church, gave up the ghost in the United States of America (USA) on Monday at 67.
Though the church didn’t reveal how he died, but according to The Nation, the respected clergyman had health issues mainly triggered by personal tragedies.
A source close to the family said: ”He really didn’t get over the losses he suffered. He tried to be strong but there is a limit to what a man can take.”
Pastor Taiwo lost first wife, Bimbo to the cold hands of death in a Sosoliso plane crash in 2005. She was 45.
“Pastor was more devastated by what people said after Pastor Bimbo died than what actually happened. Many people said nasty things that saddened his heart. He was touched by the savagery of the comments.
“Well, he had no choice and decided to move on despite the heartbreak. It took a lot of talking for him to decide to remarry,” the source shared.
On November 9, 2021, death came knocking on his door again. This time, it took his second wife, Pastor Nomthi, a South African, away. Nomthi, who died of cancer, was 47 and had two children for the preacher.
“If Pastor Bimbo’s death was shattering, Pastor Nomthi’s demise was a technical knock-out. It knocked Pastor down and out. He was inconsolable. He was very bothered about what people would say.
“It left him totally lifeless. There was nothing we could tell him. It took something deep out of him and some of us became afraid for him. When he lost his twin sister few weeks after his wife’s death, sources said it was more or less the last straw.”