Top Gossip: Nollywood actor's wedding disrupted by his second wife....

    The Overcomers Church World
Outreach in Surulere, Lagos, has
issued an apology for the
disruption of the wedding
between Nollywood actor,
Solomon Akiyesi, and Uloma
Agwu on Saturday.
Pandemonium broke out after
the groom’s wife from his first
marriage stormed the church as
the marital union had gotten
underway, forcing the church to
cancel the ceremony.
“We regret the ugly series of
events that followed this brash
display. At the Overcomers
Church, we do our due diligence
to ensure a couple set to wed is
right in the eyes of the law and
in the eyes of God,” said the
church in a statement signed by
Chika Moses, the Media
Representative.
“To the best of our knowledge,
Mr. Akiyesi was unmarried. The
Overcomers Church World
Outreach regrets that the
woman who disrupted the
wedding chose such a time to
do so.
“There is no ideal situation here,
but it would have been right
that she bring the case before
church officials in a manner
befitting a house of worship,”
the church added.
Mr. Akiyesi’s wife, Lilian,
pregnant and accompanied by
friends, walked into the marriage
ceremony immediately after the
praise and worship session, as
the minister was about to begin
officiating.
It took the efforts of police
officers to restore order within
the church’s premises.
The church, in its statement,
said that the intending couple
would not be “legally joined
together” until the matter is
properly settled by lawful
authorities.
N.E Moses, the church’s General
Overseer, addressed the
congregation after the incident,
according to the statement.
“Bishop Moses prayed for the
couple, Mr. Akiyesi and Ms.
Agwu, but did not legally wed
them – no documents were
signed so as not to disobey the
law…
“Our Bishop has urged us to
take a lesson from this and be
careful of the decisions we make
in life, so the consequences
don’t hurt us in the future.”
Mr. Akiyesi, a graduate of the
University of Ibadan, has
appeared in movies such as the
God of Shiloh, an unofficial
biography of David Oyedepo, the
General Overseer of Living Faith
Church Worldwide.
He has also starred in such
Nollywood movies as Dumebi
The Dirty Girl, alongside Mercy
Johnson and Kenneth Okonkwo;
Wave of Glory, alongside Ini Edo;
and Mystery Beads with Jackie
Appiah, amongst others.
In his facebook post after the
incident, Mr. Akiyesi said that his
earlier marriage to Lilian, which
unconfirmed sources say has
lasted for seven years, was
“limiting and retrogressing him.”
“Every man has a right to take
away that which will truncate his
life. My marriage was one of the
many things limiting and
retrogressing me. If I find a
better alternative I doubt why I
won’t take it. So people should
leave me alone (sic) pls.”