BY ISSAH OLEGOR
The increasingly public fallout between International God’s Way Church founder Bishop Daniel Obinim and his estranged wife, Florence, has taken another dramatic turn following the emergence of an audio recording in which the controversial preacher makes a series of startling claims about their marriage.
In the recording sighted online on September 14, 2026, Bishop Obinim appears to speak candidly about the state of his relationship with Florence, claiming that he had emotionally withdrawn from the marriage long before their reported separation.
One of the most striking moments in the audio is his demand that Florence stop using the surname “Obinim”, following what he described as a traditional process signalling the end of their marriage.
According to the preacher, Florence presented him with a drink as part of the process, which he accepted. He subsequently interpreted his acceptance of the drink as confirmation that their marriage had ended.
Obinim was emphatic that Florence should no longer identify herself as his wife after the development.
“Since I have accepted the drink, remove the name Obinim from your name.”
He also accused his wife of embarrassing him and went as far as saying that she should not attend his funeral in the future in the capacity of a widow.
Beyond the dispute over the surname, Obinim made allegations about the domestic side of their relationship, claiming that Florence had failed to perform some responsibilities he associated with being a wife.
He specifically complained about cooking, alleging that Florence rarely prepared meals for him and that her sister, Comfort, was instead responsible for cooking.
“You don’t cook for me because it’s your sister, Comfort, who cooks for me.”
The preacher also questioned whether Florence had regularly washed his clothes and bedsheets or communicated with him as a wife.
But his most revealing claim was that his dissatisfaction with the marriage had existed for a considerable period before their eventual separation.
Obinim said he had lost interest in the relationship but continued in the marriage because Florence was the mother of his children and because they had spent many years together.
“I was no longer interested in the marriage, but I was forcing myself to be in it because you are the mother of my children.”
That admission has added another dimension to the public discussion surrounding the couple, particularly because it suggests that, according to Obinim’s account, the breakdown of the marriage was not a sudden development.
Perhaps the most explosive part of the audio is Obinim’s admission that he had relationships with other women while he was still married to Florence.
The preacher claimed that some of those relationships were not brief encounters but lasted for several years.
In an extraordinary claim, he alleged that his longest relationship with another woman during the marriage lasted nine years, while suggesting that his shortest such relationship lasted five years.
“While we were married, I was having affairs with other women, and the longest affair I have been with a woman was nine years.”
Obinim further claimed that he was the person who ended all those relationships, insisting that none of the women left him.
He alleged that some of the women became emotional when he ended the relationships. Obinim also sought to portray the separation as an emotional break that had already occurred long before the latest developments.
He claimed that he had not missed Florence during the two months since he left their home, arguing that their relationship had already become distant.
According to him, the couple had stopped sleeping together, further illustrating the extent of the estrangement.
“I have never missed you for once ever since I left you for the past two months.”
He also rejected the suggestion that his departure was connected to sexual intimacy, saying that he did not miss Florence for sex.
The preacher claimed that Florence would leave home early in the morning and return late at night, another factor he appeared to associate with the growing distance between them.
