A leadership crisis is currently rocking the Brotherhood of the Cross and Star Church. Didactic Information reports that this renewed crisis follows the imposition of the Son of the second wife of the Church Leader on the Church as His Successor.
There are unconfirmed reports that the current Church Leader, Rowland Obu, is facing severe health challenges claimed to be fatal stage of cancer which has affected his availability at the Church headquarters and has prevented him to be performing his functions. Some key members of the Church believe that He may not survive his deteriorating health, hence the current leadership tussle.
Leader Rowland Obu has reportedly navigated between US and UK Hospitals in desperate need to remedy his health challenges.
But back home is the battle over who will replace him. There is a first Son of the Church Leader known as Prince Olumba Olumba Obu, who is believed to take over from the Father has not been around for some years now, therefore the second wife perfected her own first son to take over as the successor.
Historically, the Brotherhood of the Cross and Star is a spiritual organisation that has its headquarters in in Calabar, Cross River State, Nigeria. The Brotherhood of the Cross and Star claims to be different from mainstream Christianity because it maintains that the organisation simply abbreviated as BCS is not a church but the new Kingdom of God on Earth and that its founder, Olumba Olumba Obu, is the Holy Spirit personified, the God of all creation. BCS incorporates into Christian teaching ideas of incarnation and reincarnation and also advocates veganism.
A key aspect of the BCS Belief is that faith should be used to cure disease and medicine should be avoided.
Earlier when Olumba Olumba Obu, the original leader and founder of the organization died, He was reportedly buried secretly having described him as immortal and widely believed by his members to be so. But soon after his death, there was a similar leadership tussle between the first daughter and his brother, Rowland who succeeded in leading the Church. But reports indicate that members believe that Leader Olumba is still alive till date on the mountain or under the water praying. Even the death of Olumba’s wife was characterised by deliberate secrecy and deception to members who believed in a very gullible way. Interestingly members of the Brotherhood of the Cross and Star still believe their original Leader, his wife and daughter are all alive long after their death.
Many members have rejected this imposition of new leadership of the organisation necessitating the current rebellion and resistance.
The crisis turned violent recently as angry worshippers in a particular branch in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, became riotous, destroying the portrait of Olumba’s first son, Rowland, who leads a faction of the sect.
Rowland’s portrait was hung near Olumba’s, but the angry worshippers did not attack the latter.
“Bring it down!” a woman’s voice could be heard shouting in the background of the video as the man in a white cassock smashed the glass frame on the ground.
“This is who we are worshipping,” a man’s voice could be heard shouting repeatedly as the camera panned and then focused on Olumba’s portrait on the wall.
Olumba’s daughter, Ibum, leads another faction.
A video, which is being circulated on WhatsApp groups and Facebook, captured a man in a white cassock yanking off Rowland’s portrait from the wall and smashing it on the floor amid cheers from worshippers.
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