Nigeria, May 31 -- The Founder and General Superintendent of the Deeper Christian Life Ministry, Pastor William Kumuyi, has revealed how his first wife, Abiodun, whom he married in 1980, died.

PREMIUM TIMES learnt that Abiodun, who bore the clergyman two sons, Jeremiah and John, died on 11 April 2009 at the age of 57, following a brief illness.

Mr Kumuyi, the convener of the Global Crusade with Kumuyi (GCK), remarried on 13 October 2010, about a year after his first wife's death. He married Folashade Blaize in London.

Speaking during the Global Workers' Conference at the Deeper Life International Conference Centre, posted on the church's YouTube page on Thursday, the Osun State-born cleric attributed his wife's death to his absence at ...