The Cancer Story Of Ex-CAN President, Ayo Orisejafor

Ayo Orisejafor, a popular tele-evangelist  and Senior Pastor of Word of Life Bible Church, has narrated how he narrowly survived cancer.

Orisejafor, a former President of the Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, told his congregation recently during a service that his escape from the killer disease was through the help of God, adding that others who suffered from the life threatening disease were not so lucky.

Tens of thousands of Nigerians have died from cancer-related disease, according to the National Institute for Cancer Research and Treatment, with 78,000 people dying from the disease in 2020 alone

According to the institute, over 120,000 new cancer cases are recorded yearly in Nigeria.

Speaking to his church members, Orisejafor disclosed that he was treated in the United States through the help of God.

Pastor Orisejafor recounted that the day he was leaving for the US with the deadly health challenge for medical treatment, someone he knew was leaving for the United Kingdom with the same kind of cancer but sadly, he never survived it.f Mainland

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According to him, “while I was leaving for America somebody I know was leaving for the United Kingdom with the same kind of cancer. It’s an aggressive cancer. The day I boarded the flight coming to Nigeria, he was in a casket coming to Nigeria.

“How do you face cancer and still stand like this? But I have not told you when I was going to America full of cancer, you did not know, I did not tell you. I look normal because this is my way of life.

“Hear me, I was on my two legs. I walked into the plane but he wasn’t. Please don’t clap, because I am not better than him, but God remembered, He remembered my heart. I have always had a heart for God.

“I told God, ‘If you save me from this, I would double my service, I would serve you twice more’. God saved me and brought me home.”

Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor, is the founding and Senior Pastor of Word of Life Bible Church, In July 2010, he became the first Pentecostal leader to be elected as President of the Christian Association of Nigeria CAN.