Rivers Pastor Who Walked Out Of Wedding Over Lateness Dies Barely One Month After
Essa Ogorry, Founder and Lead Pastor of Fulfilling-Word Foundation Church, Rivers State, is dead. He died on Tuesday at the age of 55.
Ogorry died exactly a year after his wife, Tonyemieba, passed on. The decreased couple left a 17-year-old child.
The late Rivers-based preacher went viral recently for refusing to join an intending couple over their ten minutes lateness to the wedding service.
A source said, “My pastor has gone on to be with the Lord. He had health issues even before the wedding saga. We took him to the hospital and he had to come from Lagos to attend the wedding.
“He tried to preach the Sunday after the wedding but he was not in his normal strength. He went back to the hospital and he gave up yesterday (Tuesday) morning.”
“He celebrated his 55th birthday on February 9, last week. He lost his wife last year, on February 16, 2020, the same date,” the source further added.
Speaking on the ‘cancelled’ wedding, the source said the groom and the bride signed a document that the pastor has the right not to join them together as husband and wife if they come late on the wedding day.
