Exposed: Meet Christ Embassy Female Pastor Yemisi Kudehinbu, Who Crashed Chris & Anita Oyakhilome’s Marriage

Though details are still sketchy, fillers emanating suggest that Chris Oyakhilome, Senior Pastor of the Christ Embassy Church may have finally come to his senses, ditched his bevy of ladies and reconciled with his wife, Anita Oyakhilome (Nee Ebodaghe).In the height of their marital crisis, Anita had sought divorce based on what she described as her husband’s inexplicable behaviour.

Investigation revealed that Chris over time had developed a habit of surrounding himself with female church members, some of who lived with him in his Lagos home, popularly
referred to as White House.

Some of the ladies, particularly one Pastor Yemisi Kudehinbu, a pharmacy graduate of the University of Lagos who is in her late forties played the role of his wife. Her closeness to Chris Oyakhilome dates back to the 90’s, when she was a Pastor of the Christ Embassy Student Fellowship (Believers Love World).

As soon as Anita travelled to London over the failing health of one of their daughters, Yemisi moved in with Chris. She lived with him, cooked for him, bought his clothes, drove him around and travelled everywhere with him. However, she moved out anytime Anita was in Nigeria, but returned as soon as Anita travelled back to London.

Even after their daughter fully recovered from her ailment, Anita was not allowed to return to Nigeria, she was only allowed to visit during Church programmes, such as camp meeting e.t.c. Elder T. Oyakhilome, Chris Oyakhilome’s father intervened several times, but his efforts were rebuffed by his son.

While Anita Oyakhilome was only allowed to visit her matrimonial home, Yemisi lived and thrived there. Yemisi became so powerful within Christ Embassy that she could hire and fire, she began to override decisions by many senior pastors in the ministry including Anita.

Irked by this and many other development which we can’t pen down, Anita Oyakhilome sought to be accorded more respect in her home and the ministry she co-founded. When her request was rebuffed by her husband, Chris Oyakhilome, she quit her job as Pastor, stopped attending the Church and filed for divorce.”

Chris Oyakhilome responded with a televised broadcast, saying:

« A child of God must not divorce . » “My wife (Anita) is a bitter woman. I am not a preacher, I am a man of God, where was the wife of Peter or Paul mentioned in the Bible.”

This assertion made many to question Chris Oyakhilome’s understanding of the scriptures, because Paul, whom he cited his name, urged Christian men to deal with their wife with understanding. Paul called the wife joint- heir of the grace of life and that if a man does not treat his spouse right his prayer will be blocked. 

" Likewise, husbands, live with your wives in an understanding way, showing honor to the woman as the weaker vessel, since they are heirs with you of the grace of life, so that your prayers may not be hindered."

1 Peter 3:7 (ESV)

In the heat of the crisis, Pastor Chris transferred his chief security officer, Pastor Pat, from Lagos to Benin for informing his (Chris) mother about his ordeal and suspended a female pastor who raised prayer request for his marriage.

Our checks reveal that Pastor Yemisi Kudehinbu, who lived with Chris Oyakhilome for more than 18 years playing wifey, had threatened to expose him, if he ever returned to his real wife (Anita). However, it remains to be seen if she will carry out her threat.
Pastor Chris had better braced up himself now, because if this over-ambitious Yemisi ever pushes on with her threat to expose him, it would shake the media world, and many newspapers would sell like hot cake, while the story spread like fire . There are strong insinuations that Pastor Yemisi, must have given him, pastor Chris bedroom service among other roles she played for him. There are certain temptations that the bible did not tell us to resist, but to flee from. even Joseph in the Bible flee from potiphar's wife John 8:44 & Genesis 39:1-6
Satan loves to tempt people with what God has forbidden. Satan even tried to tempt Jesus to step outside of God’s perfect will Matthew 4:1-11.

 Pastor Chris made the mistake of thinking he could resist all these temptations.

The most painful part of their divorce saga is that when the marriage shoe begins to pinch, for whatever reason, the only way out that many couples know is that of divorce. They turn to this as a solution, with no attempt to examine any possible alternatives. Pastor Chris ought to know better than the rest of us, first and foremost as a church leader and spiritual father to many, who profess to be ordained by God, and teacher of His words who is expected to have an in-debt knowledge of the Bible.

Before God, marriage is a lifetime relationship that should never be severed by human action. In the book of Malachi, God says that He hates divorce" (Malachi 2:16). God's perfect will is the preservation of society and future generations by the preservation of marriages. God will give anyone great help in sustaining a marriage relationship or in the reconciliation of estranged marriage partners. In extreme cases, there are only two grounds for divorce and remarriage.

The Scriptures, in their great wisdom and practicality, do not leave us uninformed in this area. They deal with this subject most forthrightly and plainly. Even I as an ordinary church goer have long ago learned that the most helpful book on family problems ever printed is the Bible, and I turn to it far more frequently than any other book because of its tremendous help in these areas. One tend to wonder what our pastors of today turn to in their period of marital problems.