Why Pastor Paul Adefarasin Shunned Elder Brother, Pastor Wale Adefarasin's 70th Birthday +How They Both Don't Get Along

A few days back, it was the 70th birthday Pastor Wale Adefarasin, the Senior Pastor and General Overseer of Guiding Light Assembly (GLA). The cool clergy is the elder brother of popular celebrity pastor, Paul Adefarasin, founder and Senior Pastor of House On The Rock. Conspicuously missing at this milestone occasion however was the younger brother, Pastor Paul and his wife, Pastor Mrs Ifeanyiwa. Top pastors, including Pastor Tunde Bakare officiated at the birthday thanksgiving service of the Guiding Light Assembly founder. Other dignitaries joined the preacher, his wife and children at the occasion. The loud absence of the younger Adefarasin on his brother's big day once again is the height of the quiet reality that the pastor-brothers don't get along. Not only did Pastor Paul skip the event to celebrate his brother's 70th, he did not post anything on social media about him.

He, Paul was also visibly-absent back in 2012, when he clocked 60 -signaling that there has been no love lost between them for a long while now. It is such a silent-but-loud irony that two men of God, born of same well-to-do parents could fall apart so widely. The crux behind the gulf between them has also been a top-kept secret. However, they are both doing well in their private lives and ministries. 

When he clocked 60, Pastor Wale Adefarasin activities to mark it climaxed at the Civic Centre in Lagos, with a symposium organised by his friends to x-ray various national issues. The symposium topic was 'The Legacy of Our Generation' with speakers like Prof Pat Utomi, Prof Yemi Osinbajo and the celebrant himself.

Both pastors are sons of late Justice Joseph Adetunji Adefarasin, a  lawyer, High Court judge and Chief Justice of Lagos (between 1974-1985). He was married to their mum, Hilda Adefarasin and their union produced five children; Wale Adefarasin, Bola Adefarasin, Yinka Ogundipe, Michael Adeyemi Adefarasin and Paul Adefarasin.