Essa Ogorry, Senior Pastor of Fulfilling-Word Foundation Church based in Rivers State is dead.He died on Tuesday at the age of 55
The cleric passed on exactly a year after his wife, Tonyemieba, died. The departed couple left a 17-year-old child.
TheNewsGuru recalls that the late Rivers-based preacher went viral recently for refusing to join an intending couple over their lateness to the wedding service.
A source close to Ogorry said, “My pastor has gone on to be with the Lord. He had health issues even before the wedding saga. We took him to the hospital and he had to come from Lagos to attend the wedding.
“He tried to preach the Sunday after the wedding but he was not in his normal strength. He went back to the hospital and he gave up yesterday (Tuesday) morning.”
“He celebrated his 55th birthday on February 9, last week. He lost his wife last year, on February 16, 2020, the same date”.
On the ‘cancelled’ wedding, the source noted that the groom and the bride signed a document that the pastor has the right not to join them together as husband and wife if they come late on their wedding day.
The source said, “He came that day and waited for five minutes. Before the day, he did interviews with the intending couple and he told them not to allow him look bad in the face of the congregation because the kind of thing had happened before when intending couple come so late and all the members will be waiting for them.
“The bride came to pastor and pleaded. Pastor considered going on with the wedding but the groom and his family rained insults on him. Then, an uproar ensued and pastor left the church.”
As expected, friends and members of the church have started paying tribute to the late preacher on social media.