Olatosho Mathew Oshoffa, the 10th son and 20th child of the late founder of Celestial Church of Christ (CCC), Bilewu Oshoffa, has revealed that polygamy isn’t prohibited among shepherds in the church despite the Biblical position of one man, one wife.
In an interview with Punch Newspaper, he addressed the various contentious issues surrounding his late father, Bilewu Oshoffa. When asked about the controversy about his father regarding the number of wives and children his father had, Olatosho said: “My father left this world on 10th September 1985. He left behind 13 wives and 53 children. Many people have said he had 100 children and so on. But no. We (the children) know ourselves and up till now, I can tell you that we know the number of wives that gave birth to this number of children for my father. So, we know ourselves and relate very well. There is one love in the family, no matter how many we are. The number of children is 53, but we are all in one love and one accord.
Speaking on how possible it is for the entire 53 children of his late father to be untied he said, “Our father, while on earth, used to gather us together and tell us, Never say you are a son or daughter to any of my wives. But tell yourself, you are a son of Oshoffa. This means he used that girdle of love to tie us together. So we don’t see ourselves as children of our various mothers but as children of Oshoffa.
And that is the same way we related when he (Oshoffa) was still in this world and has been doing after his demise. Even as of today, the remaining Oshoffa wives that were younger to my mother, I still refer to them as my mother, because of the love that our father (Oshoffa) has used to bind us together. So, we all remain one as SBJ Oshoffa children.
