Shiloh 2020: Oyedepo Wins 16-Years Court Battle Over Ownership Of Winners Chapel, Ghana

Ahead of the Shiloh 2020 programme, Bishop Oyedepo has been declared the winner of the court case between him and Bishop George Adjeman over ownership of Living Faith Church Worldwide, Ghana.

AllNews understands that Bishop George Adjeman had staged a takeover of the church in Ghana in 2004 after Oyedepo reportedly attempted to transfer him to Ibadan, Oyo State when he refused to continue to remit the $60,000 monthly income to the church’s international headquarters in Ota, Ogun State

He claimed to have met the church not properly run when he got to Ghana, and when the Ghanaian government called for churches to be registered as companies,  Adjeman re-registered the church in his own name and excluded the names of all the Nigerian trustees without informing the church’s headquarters in Nigeria of the new regulatory development.

According to Church Gist, the judgment delivered on 30th November 2020, all properties in possession of Winners’ Chapel, (led by Bishop Adjeman) Ghana to be returned to the Church (Oyedepo led Winners Chapel International-WCI).

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WCI is also to have exclusive use of the name of Winners Chapel. Additionally, the Registrar General is to delete Adjeman’s name from the Register of Companies while Adjeman is to account to WCI for the use of any of Its properties from 2004 to date and pay any amounts due to WCI with interest.

The summary of the judgment and the consequential reliefs granted are:

 1. The judgment of the trial high court is reversed.

2. All properties acquired or funded by the Church a.k.a. Winners Chapel International (1st and 2nd Plaintiffs) are the Church’s bona fide properties.

3. The Church is entitled to recover its properties at East Legon, No. 16 Otublohum Road, Industrial Area, all places of worship and items of worship of the Church occupied by Adjeman and Winners Chapel Ghana.

4. The Registrar General is to delete the names of Adjeman and the Defendants from its records as directors and subscribers of Winners Chapel and restore the names of the Church and its directors and subscribers in their stead.

5. Adjeman is to render an account of his stewardship to the Church from 16/01/2004 to date and pay any moneys due the Church with interest at the prevailing commercial bank interest rate.

6. The Church is entitled to the exclusive use of the name “Winners’ Chapel and Adjeman and the other Defendants are injuncted in perpetuity from using the name.

The case was conducted by Thaddeus Sory and Pst Nii Amassah Kotey who unfortunately passed on to glory a few days before judgment was given.