Evelyn Joshua Now In Charge At SCOAN, Church Slams Succession Rift Claim

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The Synagogue Church of All Nations (SCOAN) on Thursday officially announced that Evelyn Joshua, wife of the late founder of the Church, Prophet Temitope Balogun Joshua (T.B. Joshua) is now in charge of the church.

SCOAN disclosed this in a statement as the church dismissed rumours about an alleged succession rift between Evelyn and some evangelists who had worked with Joshua.

Joshua was buried last Friday after a week-long memorial in his honour, with tens of thousands of mourners lining the street to pay their last respect to the late televangelist and philanthropist, interred in the Synagogue premises located in Ikotun-Egbe, Lagos.

The statement by SCOAN partly reads: “Mrs. Evelyn Joshua is in a mourning mood, following the burial of her late husband on Friday 9 July, 2021 and as a responsible wife and mother, the least favour she deserves from well-meaning Nigerians is for them to respect the family’s privacy at these trying times.

“Rather than fan the embers of strife and animosity, she has remained focused on preserving the legacies of her late husband.

“Even when her husband was alive, she was not known to be an over-ambitious and domineering woman. Instead, she preferred to support her husband and the ministry from behind without exhibiting any selfish instincts even when she had all the powers to do so.

“As the legally married wife of the late Prophet, Mrs. Evelyn Joshua cannot be in contention whatsoever with any person or group of persons over what legally and naturally belongs to her.

“Every member of The SCOAN, including the disciples and Emmanuel TV partners should see themselves as sons and daughters of Mrs. Evelyn Joshua who is an extension of her late husband, according to biblical injunction (Genesis 2:24).

“The general public is hereby advised to disregard all media reports insinuating that elders of the church have rejected Mrs. Evelyn Joshua as the new leader of the church.

“There was never a time when elders of the church sat together to deliberate on any succession issue.

“Be informed that at the appropriate time, the new leader of the ministry shall be made known, according to the move of the Holy Spirit.

“For now, Mrs. Evelyn Joshua is in charge of coordinating the affairs of the church.”

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'Dotun Akintomide's journalism works intersect business, environment, politics and developmental issues. Among a number of local and international publications, his work has appeared in the New York Times. He's a winner of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) Award. Currently, the Online Editor at The New Diplomat, Akintomide has produced reports that uniquely spoke to Nigeria's experience on Climate Change issues. When Akintomide is not writing, volunteering or working on a media project, you can find him seeing beautiful sites like the sandy beaches that bedecked the Lagos coastline.

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