Hours ago, popular pastor of MINE Teens Ministry, Timi Adigun released an apology and confessed on how he was involved in “inappropriate behaviour with females” of his ministry.
This comes after he was accused of sexually molesting a number of the teenagers in his care.
It was claimed on popular micro blogging platform, Twitter that Adigun, who is the leader of The Ark Church, was involved in inappropriate sexual acts with his female teenage members for years.
The teenage ministry, an offshoot of his church, encourages sexual purity and even has a yearly “virginity day”.
However, while teaching them about sexual purity, he was not living up to his teachings.
The married pastor was also accused of molesting those who lived with him for over 5 years.
They claimed that he started the “Father Me” series where he encouraged people to submit to fatherhood, only for him to use the opportunity to allegedly molest those girls who took him as a father.
His female victims are reportedly “extremely hurt and broken”.
When his action was made public and members started demanding an answer, he reportedly closed The Ark Church and moved elsewhere to open another church.
Mine Teenage Ministry made these accusations on Twitter via its official Twitter handle then claimed that his wife, Timilehin Adigun was aware of his actions and was “complicit”.
Pastor Timi has now responded to the allegations.
He said he is “deeply sorry” to everyone his “actions and inactions have hurt”.
He added: “The truth is, I was involved in inapproprite behaviour with females over a couple of years.”
He continued: “I went against the sexual purity message I preach and believe in.”
He, however, stated that “there was no sexual intercourse with any” of the girls and “none was a minor.”
He exonerated his wife, saying: “My wife did not know about these actions while they happened.”
However, sources close to the ‘Man of God’ ALLEGED that popular Nollywood actress, Juliana Olayode, who is also known as Toyo Baby in popular comedy series “Jenifa’s diary” might be one of his victims.
Kemi Filani News recalls that Juliana Olayode in her 23 chapters book titled “Re-birth” – a true life story about herself released in 2017 revealed how she became close to Timi Adigun and his family after she lost her virginity at 17 to her married music teacher.
Juliana also revealed that she had a “father me” relationship with Timi where she submitted to fatherhood and took him as a father.
Although she never stated that she had anything to do with him in her book, neither did she say he molested her, Juliana Olayode was a very active member of the MINE Teens ministry and was very close if not one of the closest member of the ministry to Timi Adigun.
