Primate Dr. Olorunfemi Ejide, the founder of the C&S Church for All Nations, has thrown his weight behind Rev. Mother Esther Ajayi or Rev. Dr. Yomi Shoroye to become the Iya Aladura Cherubim & Seraphim (C&S) unification.
Primate Ejide, also the general overseer of Ogo Sioni Aladura Ministry, extols the spirituality of the late Captain Christianah Abiodun, whom he said left a very big vacuum difficult to fill by any of today’s seraph mothers.
In this interview with Christian Benefits marking his birthday this week, the firebrand Baba Aladura Olorunfemi Ejide also speaks on the efforts of the C&S Church for Nations at complementing the unity and love movements in the C&S by various cornered associations in the popular white garment church. Excerpts.
The C&S Church for All Nations that you founded in the U.S barely eight months ago is spreading like wild fire across the globe. What is the secret?
The secret is the lots of concerned C&S members who are seeking the truth for a genuine propagation of the gospel of Jesus Christ today by C&S assemblies and ministers. The C&S will clock 90 years old this year, unfortunately the truth of the gospel of Christ is obviously lost or compromised in the fold. As it is now, we (C&S) are doing very little in propagating the true salvation. When God raised this platform; the C&S Church for All Nations, through me last year October 15, 2024 in the U.S a lot of Seraphs seeking the truth embraced it.
How were you able to gather lots of heads of C&S churches from across the globe into the C&S Church for All Nations within six months of its formation?
It was by the grace of God. The fact is when you stand for the truth those who are pursuing the truth will stand with you. They will identify with your cause. No matter the lies and deceptions that people are propagating today in the C&S church the truth will eventually prevail. The C&S Church for All Nations is a movement for the truth, unity and love in the C&S. It is entirely a new movement in the Cherubim & Seraphim (C&S) Church.
Your focus on the C&S Church for All Nations is taking your attention from your primary mission or assignment, Ogo Sioni Aladura Ministry Int’l. How do you strike a balance?
I am not distracted from Ogo Sioni Aladura Ministry by my focus and commitment to the C&S Church for All Nations. Ogo Sioni Aladura Ministry Int’l remains my primary assignment. Ogo Sioni is a church while the C&S Church for All Nations is a movement. The movement is broader than Ogo Sioni, which is just one of several independent C&S churches under the C&S Church for All Nations. The C&S Church for All Nations is like webs connecting C&S churches in all parts of the world; Africa, Asia, Europe and America together.
Let’s have a look at the leadership structure of the C&S Church for All Nations
The beauty of the C&S Church for All Nations is that we many leaders and heads. I am just the point man, the founder or the pioneer of the global C&S movement. The movement belongs to all the leaders, the heads, the sub-heads and the enire members and C&S churches all over the world in the group. However, for the sake of structure, we will soon elect people into specific offices by balloting. Also, we are going to associate our movement with other vested organizations in the C&S like Orimolade Descendants, All the five parent bodies, the C&S new generation churches, The Eternal, The Sacred, The Ona Iwa Mimo, The C&S unification, The Agelu and The Worshipers etc. The C&S Church for All Nations have members from all these different C&S organizations. We want to consolidate and complement the efforts of other C&S organizations that have been promoting or championing the cause of trutfulness, unity and love in the C&S fold before we came on board.
But some observers are saying you are trying to break the leadersdip status quo in the C&S
We are not breaking any status quo or relegating any leader or organization before us. Baba Alao remains my spiritual father. I can’t do anything against him and the other elders in the C&S. I have heard some people saying Olorunfemi is trying to create a vacuum between the C&S unification and the Cherubim & Seraphim movement. But there’s nothing of such. Basically, the C&S unification is our parent body. The C&S unification has five pillars that are The Sacred, The Eternal, The Prayer Band, The Society and The Movement. Although the C&S Church for All Nations is independent, we have our roots in the Cherubim &Seraphim (C&S) unification. I came out from The Eternal. My father was Eternal. Ogo Sioni is Eternal. So, we are not in anyway against anybody or organization in the C&S fold. Everyone in the C&S fold is our friend. We have no foes in the fold.
Since the C&S unification has Baba Aladura, what do you make of the rumours going round that Rev. Mother Esther Ajayi wants to become the Iya Aladura C&S unification?
First, let me settle this wrong view from some quarters that I’m having a beefing with Rev. Mother Esther Ajayi. I have no beefing whatsoever with Rev. Mother Esther Ajayi who to me has been doing very commendable works in the C& S. She has done very well enough for the C&S that if she desires to become the Iya Ladies C&S unification it is welcomed by me. If she wants to become the Iya Aladura C&S unification I will support her because she has been deploying her resources to ensure the C&S stands on her feet, same with Rev. Dr. Yomi Shoroye who I learnt is also interested in becoming the Iya Aladura C&S unification. Rev. Dr. Shoroye is also a very great woman in the C&S. She too has done commendable works in the C&S such that nobody can relegate her to the background in the Cherubim & Seraphim (C&S).
Who then will you pick between Rev. Mother Esther Ajayi and Rev. Dr. Yomi Shoroye to become the Iya Aladura C&S unification?
I am not in any position to pick who becomes whatever in the C&S. We have hierarchy in the C&S. It is the prerogative of the elders in the C&S to appoint, select or pick who becomes who and who in the C&S. If the elders like, let them pick Rev. Mother Esther Ajayi as the Iya Aladura, I won’t have problems with that. If they like, let them pick Dr. Shoroye as the Iya Aladura, I won’t have issues with that either. There is also a third person, Bose Oshinowo, who I learned also wants to become the Iya Aladura C&S unification.
But who among these seraph mothers has the capacity of the late Captain Christianah Abiodun of The Prayer Band C&S?
In terms of spirituality none among today’s seraph mothers has the capacity of the late Captain Chrtistianah Abiodun. The late Captain Christianah Abiodun of the Prayer Band C&S did tremendously well to unite all the factions in the Cherubim & Seraphim fold. As far back as 1948 she tried all her best to unify the entire C&S factions and fragmentations. In her life time she occupied a very powerful position in the C&S church, and on her demise, she left a vacuum in that position that is too large for any of today’s seraph mothers to fit in.
