AFM President Madziyire In Car Accident

Controversial Apostolic Faith Mission in Zimbabwe President, Aspher Madziyire , is said to have been involved in a road accident near Mvuma.

According to one of his junior pastors, Judah Danda, who posted on the church’s Facebook page, Madzivire escaped with minor injuries.

“He was with his wife and they are said to be fine. We thank God. Let us pray for them,”posted pastor

Madziyire was last year dragged to the High court by disgruntled church pastors, deacons and elders challenging his re-election as the church’s president.

AFM President Madziyire In Car Accident

He is also being accused by the church of tampering with the church’s constitution to allow him and his close allies in the leadership to clinch on to power.

A pastor with the church told The Standard last year one senior pastor (name supplied) who was gunning for the vice-presidency had three birth certificates with different dates of birth indicating he was born in 1954, 1956 and 1961.

AFM constitution is said not to allow anyone above 60 years to be voted into the church’s presidium and that could be the reason why one of the leading pastors had tampered with the dates on his identity documents.

The fierce leadership wrangle has raised fears that one of the country’s leading Pentecostal churches may be headed for a possible split after some pastors and elders dragged their administrators to court challenging the way they conducted the church’s presidential and overseers’ elections last month.

According to court documents, some pastors, deacons and overseers from the church’s 20 provinces approached the court seeking nullification of Madziyire’s election as president.

The pastors also alleged the leaders involved “created” delegates who were not supposed to vote.

Madziyire is alleged to have achieved this by creating three provinces: Manicaland East, Murewa and Mashonaland Central.