40 Days After Taiwo Odukoya’s Death, Fountain Of Life Church Names Successor

<h4>40 Days After Taiwo<&sol;h4>&NewLine;<p><strong><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;openlife&period;ng&sol;">OpenLife Nigeria<&sol;a> <&sol;strong>reports that 40 days after the death of Pastor Taiwo Odukoya&comma; founding pastor of the Fountain of Life Church&comma; the Church has announced Jimmy Odukoya&comma; the first son of the late founder&comma;<br &sol;>&NewLine;as the senior pastor of the church&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Making the announcement&comma; Rotimi Okpaise&comma; a pastor&comma; said the late Odukoya confided in the Board of Trustees &lpar;BoT&rpar; members about the succession plan after his demise&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;According to Okpaise&comma; the BoT unanimously elected Jimmy as the senior pastor and chairperson of the board&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;The board has chosen Saturday&comma; September 30&comma; 2023&comma; as the date of Jimmy’s installation&comma;” he said&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Pastor Taiwo Odukoya&comma; the former senior pastor of the church&comma; died in August 2023&comma; in the United States&period; He was aged 67&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The preacher&comma; whose church headquarters is in the Ilupeju area of Lagos&comma; was buried on September 9&comma; in a private ceremony attended by family members and close associates&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Odukoya died less than two years after his 47-year-old South African wife&comma; Nomthi Odukoya&comma; died&period; She died in November 2021 after a two-year battle with cancer&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;<a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;vanguardngr&period;com&sol;">They were married for 11 years and had two children&period;<&sol;a><br &sol;>&NewLine;He married Nomthi after his first wife&comma; Bimbo&comma; died in the ill-fated Sosoliso plane crash in 2005&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;His union with Bimbo produced three children&comma; including Jimmy — the star of Netflix’s Woman King movie&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;In December 2021&comma; the pastor also lost his twin sister&comma; Kehinde Hassan&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;