Unhappy about that they perceive to be poor treatment, the south-south chapter of the church is alleging among other things gross injustice in ministers’ remuneration, unhealthy rivalry, inefficiency and escalating administrative and financial malfeasance. Evangelist Nsikan Akpan, the zonal chairman of the Central Working Committee of the South-South General Council, Assemblies of God, said they decided to break away from the general council administration as a means of entrenching some degree of self-governance.
Speaking in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, Reverend Akpan made the announcement surrounded by other executive members of the church including executive members of the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria. He added that the general council had grown too big, which bred inefficiency and became too expensive to run.
According to Reverend Akpan, the trend led to unhealthy rivalry, resulting in a supremacy battle between the general superintendent of Assemblies of God, Reverend Paul Emeka and the executive committee members under Reverend Chidi Okoroafor. He noted that there was no end in sight to the unhealthy rivalry and the inefficiency as the two clerics had been enmeshed in a fierce legal tussle, a development, he said had painted the church in a bad light.
Reverend Akpan added: “The south-south zone of the Assemblies of God has called for the decentralisation of the general council administration to end marginalisation and gross injustice in ministers’ remuneration; unhealthy rivalry among ministers; inefficiency and escalating administrative and financial malfeasance. The only panacea to the growing crisis enveloping the Assemblies of God in Nigeria, leading to the birth of two general councils, which often result in fresh crises in the church across the nation, is to decentralise and reorganise the general council into six or 12 autonomous general councils with little economic and administrative power at the centre.”
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