The Senior Pastor of Fountain of Life Church Pastor Taiwo Odukoya has died.
Taiwo Odukoya was said to have died on Monday August 7 in the United States of America (USA) according to the official Facebook page of the church which confirmed the death.
The church said: “The fountain of Life Church Family, in total submission to the will of God Almighty announces the passing unto greater glory of our Father, Teacher, a great servant of the Most High God, Pastor Daniel Taiwo Odukoya, Founding Pastor of The Fountain of Life Church, who passed unto glory on the 7th of August 2023 in the USA.
“We are in total submission to you LORD!!!
“We thank the Lord for the gift of greater leader!!!”
The pastor had earlier lost his two wives, including popular relationship expert and televangelist, Pastor Bimbo Odukoya, who died in a plane crash in 2005.
The Daily Crucible reports that in 1980, Odukoya, Petroleum Engineer, met Bimbo Williams at the University of Ibadan and a relationship between the two developed which led to their marriage in 1984.
The marriage produced three children.
Years later, Taiwo and Bimbo Odukoya co-founded The Fountain of Life Church in 1992 with a stated vision “to teach men and women the art of building successful relationships and the principles of leadership so they can be they are created to be. The church situates in Ilupeju area of Lagos.
Painfully, on 10 December 2005, Bimbo Odukoya, along with 102 other people, died on the crashed Sosoliso Airlines Flight 1145.
On January 5, 2010, five years later, Taiwo Odukoya got married again to Rosemary Simangele Zulu from South Africa. The marriage produced two boys.
In November 2021, Odukoya lost his second wife to cancer.
The pastor announced the death of his wife on 9 November, saying that the South African “battled cancer for the better part of two years.
