Sanwo-Olu condoles with family, church members of late Pastor Odukoya

Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has expressed sadness and shock over the death of the Senior Pastor of Fountain of Life Church, Pastor Taiwo Odukoya, describing the passing of the cleric as a great loss to the entire congregation of his Church, body of Christ, the state and Nigeria as a whole.

Pastor Odukoya, aged 67, died on Monday, August 7, in the United States of America (USA).

Governor Sanwo-Olu expressed this feeling in a statement issued on Tuesday by his Chief Press Secretary (CPS), Mr. Gboyega Akosile, urging the family, especially children of the deceased, friends, clerics and the entire congregation of Fountain of Life as well as Christians Association of Nigeria (CAN) and Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN) to take death of Pastor Odukoya in good faith.

“On behalf of my family, the government and people of Lagos State, I sympathise with the Fountain of Life Church on the demise of the founding Pastor of the Church, Pastor Taiwo Odukoya. The death of Pastor Odukoya, whose ministry has touched many lives within and outside his congregation, came to me as a shock.

”The death of Pastor Taiwo Odukoya is a great loss to the body of Christ. But we take solace in God that the deceased lived a good life and served the humanity.

“Pastor Odukoya, the founding Pastor of the Fountain of Life Church was a great Teacher, Preacher and Servant of the Most High God, who impacted people within and outside Nigeria positively,” the governor said.

Governor Sanwo-Olu commiserated with with the Fountain of Life Church family as they mourned the passing of their founder, Pastor Odukoya, praying that his soul find rest with God, while he also prayed that “the good Lord comfort his friends, family, and all members of his church.”

“I commiserate with the Fountain of Life Church family as they mourn the passing of their founder, Pastor Taiwo Odukoya.

“May his soul find rest with God, and may the good Lord comfort his friends, family, and all members of his church. Amen,” Sanwo-Olu prayed.

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