The facts you need to know about the Court of Appeal ruling.....!

It is important to see it clearly that the Registered Trustees of Celestial Church of Christ (Nigeria Diocese) or so to call them will like all Celestians to be mind numbed and follow them like robots.  While they have for so many years carry the entire Church for the past years in believing everything they do including little and big shenanigans as perpetrated by them on many issues.

They will now want you to believe that they are on the right path with how the Church is been lead.  But fact of the matter is that the challenges they are encountering from His Eminence, Rev. G. Bolanle Shonekan, who had them on their toes in the courts of law revealed many of their atrocities.  The Trustees and Emmanuel Mobiyino Oshoffa (Name on his Nigeria passport) or BILEHOU, Emmanuel (Name on his French passport) has been misleading unsuspecting members that the recent Court of Appeal ruling of July 4^th, 2008 had sanctioned Emmanuel’s appointment as Pastor.

Let us break down the case chronologically.  Trustees surreptitiously instituted an action against Corporate Affairs Commission in October of 2005 in Federal High Court, Abuja, Nigeria, after realizing that Rev. Shonekan had poked holes in the so called duly constituted proclamation letter of Emmanuel Mobiyino Oshoffa as Pastor of Celestial Church of Christ.  The proclamation letter carried twenty-three signatures instead of required twenty-nine to form a quorum of simple majority of remaining members of Pastor-in-Council, showing that Emmanuel Mobiyino Oshoffa was not appointed constitutionally if we are to believe that the amendment of the constitution of Celestial Church of Christ (Nigeria Diocese), RC. 489 dated 19^th October, 2000, filed on 20^th October, 2000 with Corporate Affairs Commission’s certificate of approval dated 22^nd December, 2000 was deemed duly filed and registered.  That amendment was one of the Trustees’ deceitful acts and abuse of the rule of law.  The principal signatory to the amendment dated 19^th, filed on 20^th October 2000 with the Corporate Affairs Commission was Papa, Rev. Alexander Abiodun Bada.  If we all remember, Rev. Bada died on September 8^th and buried on September 29^th, 2000, he could not have been back from death to sign the application for amendment.

The Trustees believed that they could legitimize the Emmanuel Mobiyino Oshoffa’s appointment as Pastor of Celestial Church of Christ Worldwide by rushing the registration of Emmanuel’s name as the Chairman of the Registered Trustees of Celestial Church of Christ (Nigeria Diocese) with Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) the same way they have successfully registered the unlawful amendment to the constitution in 2000, and surreptitiously challenged the CAC in Federal High Court, Abuja, Nigeria and won without the knowledge of any interested parties on 20^th December, 2005.

The Trustees who now believed that they have succeeded in conning the Federal Government Agency and the Judicial System into backing their appointment of Emmanuel Mobiyino Oshoffa (name on his Nigeria passport), aka: BILEHOU, Emmanuel (name on his French passport) as the Pastor of Celestial Church of Christ Worldwide instituted action against Rev. Shonekan in SUIT No. HCL/7/2006 filed IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE OGUN STATE NIGERIA IN THE ILARO JUDICIAL DIVISION HOLDEN AT ILARO – REGISTERED TRUSTEES OF CELESTIAL CHURCH OF CHRIST (NIGERIA DIOCESE), PLAINTIFF vs. REV. GODWIN BOLANLE SHONEKAN, DEFENDANT BY ORIGINAL ACTION and REV. GODWIN BOLANLE SHONEKAN, PLAINTIFF BY COUNTER CLAIM vs. REGISTERED TRUSTEES OF CELESTIAL CHURCH OF CHRIST (NIGERIA DIOCESE), 1^st DEFENDANT; EMMANUEL MOBIYINO OSHOFFA (Name on his Nigeria Passport) aka: BILEHOU, EMMANUEL (Name on his French Passport), 2^nd DEFENDANT JOINED BY COURT ORDER ON THE 9^th DAY OF MAY, 2007, claiming in paragraph 9 of the motion as filed that: “the appointment of Pastor Emmanuel Mobiyino Oshoffa as Pastor of the Celestial Church of Christ was recently giving judicial backing by the Federal High Court, Abuja in Suit No. FHC/ABJ/277/2005 – THE REGISTERED TRUSTEES OF CELESTIAL CHURCH OF CHRIST (NIGERIA DIOCESE) vs. CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION on the 20^th day of December 2005.  (Click here to view and read the petition and exhibits so attached to Chief Justice of Nigeria, Corporate Affairs Commission, Court of Appeal and the US Ambassador to Nigeria by His Eminence, Rev. G. Bolanle Shonekan).

The SUIT No. HCL/7/2006 has been merely abandoned by the Registered Trustees as we may want to call them for record purposes, since August of 2007 for lack of substance in responding to the Counterclaim as filed by the counsel to His Eminence, Rev. G. Bolanle Shonekan.  Registered Trustees and Emmanuel Oshoffa had only hoped that the Court of Appeal ruled in their favor against the Corporate Affairs Commission so they could have ground to respond to the SUIT No. HCL/7/2006 at Ilaro.

The Court of Appeal ruling of July 4^th, 2008 in APPEAL No. CA/A/107/2006 – REGISTERED TRUSTEES OF CELESTIAL CHURCH OF CHRIST (NIGERIA DIOCESE) vs. CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION was as it is clearly stated that: “From the foregoing, the conclusion I have reached is that the Applicant (Senior Evangelist Lagun Adesanya) equally does not qualify as a person that has suffered any legal grievance having regard to the judgment in respect of which he seek for leave to appeal.

          The instant application must necessarily fail as I have earlier found the Applicant (Senior Evangelist Lagun Adesanya) not qualify as a person interested in the matter on appeal, when the test as to whether or not he could have been joined as a party to the suit in the lower court is applied and also that he does not qualify as a person that has suffered any legal grievance having regard to the judgment in respect of which he seeks for leave to appeal”, quote and on quote.

To simply sum that up, the Court of Appeal ruled against Senior Evangelist Lagun Adesanya for seeking to be joined as interested party in the Corporate Affairs Commission’s appeal to the Federal High Court ruling of 20^th December, 2005.  There is nowhere in the APPEAL No. CA/A/107/2006 – REGISTERED TRUSTEES OF CELESTIAL CHURCH OF CHRIST (NIGERIA DIOCESE) vs. CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION ruling of July 4^th 2008 throwing out the appeal of the CAC, except that Senior Evangelist Lagun Adesanya and his likes would not be party to that appeal, which narrow down the contestants to the issue of the appeal to His Eminence, Rev. G. Bolanle Shonekan, the Registered Trustees of Celestial Church of Christ (Nigeria Dioceses) and Corporate Affairs Commission.

The two of the three parties involved in this case that have been duped are the Corporate Affairs Commission and His Eminence, Rev. G. Bolanle Shonekan.  The Registered Trustees of Celestial Church of Christ (Nigeria Diocese) had a lot to prove as His Eminence, Rev. G. Bolanle Shonekan had filed petition with CAC, the Court of Appeal and Chief Justice of Nigeria in less than twenty-one days of the ruling of July 4^th 2008 (Click here to view and read the petition and exhibits so attached to Chief Justice of Nigeria, Corporate Affairs Commission, Court of Appeal and the US Ambassador to Nigeria by His Eminence, Rev. G. Bolanle Shonekan).

His Eminence, Rev. G. Bolanle Shonekan has filed another petition with the Corporate Affairs Commission dated 28^th July 2008 and filed on 29^th July, 2008 seeking criminal investigation into the amendment to constitution of Celestial Church of Christ (Nigeria Diocese), RC. 489 dated 19^th October, 2000 and filed on 20^th October, 2000 (Click here to view and read the petition and appendixes so attached to Corporate Affairs Commission and the US Ambassador to Nigeria by His Eminence, Rev. G. Bolanle Shonekan).

The Court of Appeal ruling of July 4th, 2008 was kept hush-hush by the Registered Trustees of Celestial Church of Christ (Nigeria Diocese) with hope that His Eminence, Rev. G. Bolanle Shonekan will not know until 28 days passed so that they can have Emmanuel registered, though the ruling did not address the registration of Emmanuel as of yet.

The ingenious and prolific aptitude of the CCC Court Reporter Investigators alerted His Eminence, Rev. G. Bolanle Shonekan of the ruling and he spring into action immediately, damping the illusion of this unscrupulous element of our society.

The United States Internal Revenue Services has been duly informed of Emmanuel Oshoffa's collection of anointment dues and returns from collaborating Churches in the United States of America and his coconspirators in the abuse of US IRS Code and none compliance to His Eminence, Rev. G. Bolanle Shonekan's Responsibility for Foreign Expenditures, the condition for which the Church has been granted and issued central 501(c)3, 509(a)1 and 509(a)2 exempt status.  They will soon be invited by the US authorities for questioning.

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