Nigeria: African Church Crisis Deepens As South South Leaders Allegedly Sack South West Bishops

The ongoing leadership tussle in the African Church may have taken an ethnic dimension, as the South-South leadership of the Church in the region has allegedly ordered bishops of South-West extraction to relocate to their states.

An insider who spoke with journalists in Uyo yesterday disclosed that Bishop James Bamilede from Ekiti State, who visited Fourtowns, Uyo and Archbishop of Calabar Province, A. A. Odufuwa, have been sacked from their stations since the return of Primate of the Church, Bishop Emmanuel Udofia.

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