Cheating pastor's affair uncovered
Minister denies using church coffers to fund secret meetings with lover
A cheating church minister has told how he is repenting his sins after having an affair with a married mum of two.
Pastor Stephen Oluwasola is head of the Christ Apostolic Church at Eaglestone and earns his living through donations from his congregation.
This week he admitted cheating on his wife Mary with a 30-year-old woman who lives in Kent.
"It had nothing to do with my job but it is not good for a minister of the church to have an affair.
"I sinned by having an intimate relationship with another man's wife," he told the Citizen.
"But I have now repented and stopped the relationship," he insisted.
Matters came to a head last week when the families of Stephen and the woman met to confront the pair about their relationship.
"It's all over now. I did not intend to marry this lady.
"I had marriage problems at the time because my wife was denying me my marital rights.
"Now I am trying to work things out with my wife."
Pastor Oluwasola, who has two children aged eight and five, is also in charge of the Christ Apostolic churches in Luton, Northampton and Uxbridge and travels regularly because of his work.
"I met this lady and then along the line our coming together led to a friendship and we became close.
"Then an intimacy came and we started having an affair."
The 36-year-old said he organised meetings with the woman when he was travelling on church business, but denies he paid for their rendez-vous out of his congregation-funded wages.
This week the woman was unavailable for comment.
But her husband told the Citizen: "Pastor Oluwasola destroyed my marriage.
"This man has no business preaching the word of God and collecting people's hard-earned money when his character does not line up with Jesus and the church doctrine."
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