Why I Married A Second Spouse

The founder and presiding Bishop of God’s Heritage International Mission church, Calabar, Cross River State, Bishop Josef Bassey, whose conventional marriage to second spouse prompted a stir on social media, has reacted following the backlash that trailed his marriage.

The bishop in an announcement issued by the church secretary, Melody Irem, on Wednesday, August 31, 2022, clarified the stories of his principal taking over one other spouse, Oma Etta after six years of an ‘undesired singlehood.’

In accordance with Irem, the primary marriage led to October 2016, after his former spouse ”deserted the wedding.”

He mentioned all makes an attempt of reconciliation by totally different authorities and individuals inside and out of doors the church had been rebuffed by her.

The clergyman mentioned he married his first spouse, Grace Josef Bassey in 1997 and the wedding was blessed with kids.

Learn full assertion beneath;

“Our consideration has been drawn to an onslaught of malicious, defamatory fabrication of lies, misrepresentation of info and outright demonstration of crass ignorance aimed toward tarnishing the hard-earned picture, title and status of our extremely esteemed and revered man of God, His Lordship, Bishop Josef Bassey.

“Ordinarily, we’d have utterly ignored it because the Lord whom we serve is aware of the reality and is the last word defender of his personal; however so that individuals of goodwill and good conscience don’t get deceived or swayed by this ignominious perpetuation of those brokers of Devil clearly doing the bidding of their grasp, we subsequently really feel obliged to set the information straight as follows

“1. That the primary marriage of our man of God ended since October, 2016 after the previous spouse deserted the wedding.

“2. That every one makes an attempt at mediation and reconciliation by totally different authorities and individuals inside and out of doors the church had been rebuffed by her, together with these by among the most extremely revered religious fathers within the nation and past.

“3. Consequently, in line with native legal guidelines and customs, a date was fastened and her household, the household of our man of God and representatives of the church met and formally dissolved the union thereby formally setting each events free from the wedding covenant.

4. The religious fathers and church authorities performing by the Pentecostal faculty of Bishops, within the mild of those developments, and in consideration of different info unfit and unedifying for public consumption, formally dissolved and nullified the wedding, thereby releasing God’s servant to re-marry if he selected to

5. It is perhaps mandatory to notice that the one-time spouse of our man of God had since 2016 moved on, reverted to her maiden title as Grace Henshaw and resides her life and doing in anyway she pleases, the place and when she pleases and the way she pleases. And rightly so

6. After six years of coping with the higher imagined than advised private devastations, pains, loneliness, struggles and evil penalties of the actions of his one-time spouse, God’s servant, leveraging on sensible counsel and divine steering determined it was time to stop singlehood and provides the previous a ultimate closure in one of the best curiosity of his life, future, household and the dominion

“He obtained married gloriously, honorably and enviably on Wednesday, twenty fourth August 2022 in extremely celebrated conventional marriage that was witnessed by the church, households, associates, neighbors and so on

“God’s servant at present, after six years of undesired singlehood, has just one spouse. And ONE WIFE solely. All recommendations or insinuations on the contrary are lies, evil, deceitful, in dangerous style and the handiwork of depraved folks

“Apparently, we all know the perpetuators of this evil marketing campaign. They’re the identical brokers of hell whose makes an attempt up to now years to convey God’s servant down or frustrate the work of God failed woefully

“They clearly are having coronary heart assault from their serial failures and tangible power and the grace of God at work in God’s servant making him undeterred and unmoved in his continued demonstrated dedication to the development of the dominion and the reason for God, despite the arrows hauled at him

“We subsequently name on the Christian neighborhood and males of fine conscience to disregard the lies, fabrications and misrepresentations as they’re supposed to harm the physique of Christ and convey the title of our Lord into disrepute, whilst we proceed in our battle in opposition to our frequent enemy

“As a fee, we stay extra dedicated now than ever earlier than to succeed in the ends of the earth with the fantastic gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ, and getting ready the nations for his second coming. Could the grace, peace and blessings of our Lord Jesus Christ be on us all.”