“We are even underpopulated here in Nigeria. In summary, once there are more hands, more work can be done and faster,” Lotanna Ogbuchukwu, an Anglican priest who resigned from the church, the Anglican Diocese of Nnewi, Anambra State, told our reporter in the interview.
Apart from your position on polygamy, is there any other reason you resigned as a priest?
There’s no other reason. It is for me not to stay in a platform where it (polygamy) is not supported.
You said that you received a revelation about the movement. When and how?
My revelation came 20 something years ago when we were in Anglican Children’s Ministry but I didn’t understand it fully then. Some years back, it began to appear clear that I started to understand it. That was three to four years back. So, I was saying no and running away from it earlier. I had asked myself, ‘is this what it’s all about?’ One of the major things that delayed me this long was the thought of what people would say. But we will be discussing every part of the scripture on this very soon on a weekly basis to open people’s eyes for them to understand the scripture. The scripture became so obvious, clearly explained to me afterwards, but what I battled most was what people will say and, again, how people will take it.
But your stance on polygamy contradicts what the Bible says, which is that one man should be for one woman?
Wait until we start the teaching on polygamy. By God’s grace, my first teaching will come up next Sunday on our YouTube channel. We will be holding teachings on polygamy every Sunday.
Are there priests in the church who left with you or are planning to join you?
I didn’t discuss it with anybody. All the while, even when I was uploading a video clip on YouTube announcing my resignation, I carefully avoided every church platform. I’m not going after those who are already in the Anglican Church. It’s more of those who have left the church because they were sincere to themselves, knowing that they were guilty of adultery and fornication and are condemned by their conscience that after Sunday service, they know they will still go back to the same thing (adultery and fornication). The church didn’t offer them the proper solution that God has made available for them. It is not even a permissive will. It’s a perfect will of God that you can marry more than one wife.
How did your fellow priests react to your decision?
I don’t discuss my fellow priests.
You were quoted as saying men should marry their “side chicks” to escape hell fire. Can you speak more on this?
During our teaching, I will expatiate on it. It is not just marrying the side chick. They can go for some kind of purification rites. If they come to us in the movement that we are floating, I will give guidelines on how to go for purification to ask God for forgiveness for what they have been doing. Whoever is entering your eye (that is, someone you are attracted to) – that is causing you to sin against God, marry her first. Don’t sleep with her. Marry her into your home and then enjoy her.
How is your wife reacting to all of these?
I said I don’t discuss priestly families. I don’t discuss my wife.
As you’re promoting polygamy, should the number of wives a man marries be unlimited or is there a particular number?
It will be part of the teaching. Follow us on our YouTube channel. It will come in series.
Which church are you moving to now? Or are you seeing this your movement graduate into a ministry?
Already that’s what it is (Church). I have given out the name that, as I am inspired, my church will bear. Then step by step, we will take it. I have been calling it a movement, but actually, it is a church.
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