Essa Ogorry, Founder and Lead Pastor of Fulfilling-Word
Foundation Church based in Rivers State, is dead
He died on Tuesday at the age of 55, a member of staff in
the church, who did not want to be mentioned disclosed.
Ogorry died exactly a year after his wife, Tonyemieba,
passed on. The departed couple left a 17-year-old child.
The 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,” the source
added.
Speaking on the ‘cancelled’ wedding, the source said 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 the wedding day.
Describing the late preacher as a “father, a perfectionist
and a disciplinarian”, the source said the viral ‘cancelled’ wedding which
occurred on February 6, 2021, was not the first of such but added that the late
preacher usually did join intending couples later on the same day after
entreaties. The source noted that the February 6 incident was different as the
groom rained insults on the pastor.
The source said, “He (Ogorry) 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
that kind of thing had happened before when intending couples come so late and
all the members will be waiting for them.
“For that reason, there is a document that every to-be
couple sign that pastor has the right to cancel their wedding if they are late.
The to-be couple in question signed it. They came more than five minutes late,
they came over 15 minutes late and pastor had already gone into his office as
he was not feeling well.
“The bride came to pastor and pleaded. Pastor considered
going on with the wedding. He requested that he join them in his office as he
wasn’t feeling well but the groom and his family rained insults on him. Then,
an uproar ensued and pastor left the church.”
The source further said the church leaders and the family of
the late pastor will meet to decide on the funeral arrangements.
Efforts to reach the state chairman of the Pentecostal
Fellowship of Nigeria, Rev Dagogo Jack, for comments proved abortive as of the
time of filing this report as his line was switched off.
Meanwhile, friends and members of the church have started
paying tribute to the departed pastor on social media.
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May his soul rest in peace. Now we know why he cancelled the wedding. For someone to be ill and come all the way from Lagos to conduct a wedding and then only for the couple to delay even after signing a contract is the height of unseriousness. I hope he makes it to the right side of God, Judgment unto him
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