Former BoI MD, Pitan, replaces Iluyomade as RCCG City of David’s parish pastor

The former Managing Director of Bank of Industry (BoI), Pastor Kayode Pitan, has officially replaced suspended Idowu Iluyomade as the new parish pastor at the Redeemed Christian Church of God’s City of David Parish.

Iluyomade was suspended following public outcry against the alleged extravagant birthday party of his wife shortly after the death of the then-CEO of Access Bank, Herbert Wigwe.
Wigwe was reportedly a member of the City of David parish.
Church Times, which quoted a source, said that Pastor Pitan has now been formally designated as the incumbent Pastor of the City of David.

The decision, it said, was taken by the governing council of the church during the just-concluded convention of the church.
Before now, Pitan was the pastor in charge of the Tabernacle of David of Region 51 and was also the regional pastor. He is believed to be the right person for the City of David because of his pedigree in the corporate world. It is expected that he would be able to manage the Trinity Tower project very well as well as the church.

Following his new designation by the church, Pitan is now the Pastor in charge of Region 20 with the City of David as its headquarters. Pastor Ben Akabueze will now serve as the Assistant Pastor in Charge of Region 20.
Pastor Charles Kpandei who was temporarily transferred to RCCG City of David has returned to his former duty post as Pastor in Charge of Region 11 in Lekki.

The source told Church Times that the “promotion and appointment of Pastor Pitan, put a closure to the reign of Pastor Iluyomade at RCCG City of David Parish.

Pitan spent 27 years in RCCG and gave his life to Christ at the Christ Chapel International Churches in Lagos. He told Turning Point in an interview in 2017 that he had lost over $3 million after the finance house he set up collapsed in 1993. It was that experience that led him to be more committed to Christ.

Recalling how he finally became a pastor in RCCG, he said, “I felt it was a setup by God. I came out of the Bible and joined this RCCG parish. The pastor of the parish wanted me to be a pastor. I resisted the offer. But he came one day and announced my name as pastor and that after two Sundays I would take over formerly from him because he had been promoted.

“But the thing that shook me is that he died before I took over. He went to Port Harcourt on a business trip and never came back. So my first job as a pastor was to arrange his funeral. That changed my life. I had a church given to me by a pastor who was dead. I was new to the church. They did not know what to do with me. So they had to let the G.O. know that there was a man who had just been made a pastor and that the man who made him a pastor was dead”’