Pastor Ignatius Okwuchukwu Nwabuo, is a native of ihitenensa in imo state. Born to the family if late Mr Ezeorji Nwabuo and Mrs Angelina Nwabuo. Presently the General Overseer of the Fishers of Men Charismatic Church, he started as the first General leader of the ministry, later addressed as the pastor in charge, much later the General Superintendent and now the General Overseer of the ministry, presiding over the general affairs of the entire church.
Bro Ig Nwabuo joined the Catholic Pentecostal Movement and bible society which later, metamorphosed into Catholic Charismatic Renewal in 1974 and was born again there; he was authorized to preach the gospel in the church and was used by God in diverse places.
He graduated from All Nations for Christ Bible Institute Benin City, Edo State, Nigeria in 1983. In 1985 the move of God brought him and others out of the Catholic Charismatic renewal based on persecutions that arose as a result of Catholic dogma. Fishers of Men Charismatic Church was forced out of Catholic Charismatic Renewal in 1985, they started in one room apartment with a few brothers and sisters under his watch as watch man over them.
Bro Ig Nwabuo before he became a pastor did not choose to be a pastor or be in full time ministry for the Lord. Even while he was in Catholic Charismatic Renewal, he sensed and noticed the call of God into the service of the kingdom, but he ignored and resisted all dreams, visions and revelations, even many of his brethren told him of his call. But he rejected all, it came to a period when any church he enters to worship; there would be prophecy or word of knowledge that someone whom God is calling is running away like Jonah. He then stopped attending churches, he struggled and wrestled with God so many years, even when Fishers of Men started, he kept resisting the call of God until he started hearing God’s audible voice warning him. He lost almost all his business outlets, some of his boys made away with his money. He then started closing up some shops; robbers attacked his head office and made away with much amount of money and goods.
The last audible voice was clear to him, when he was called by his name and he heard “until you are tired” and this happened in broad day light when he was on his motorcycle on his way out. That was when he responded “I am tired” this happened in 1990, he yielded to the voice of God in 1991 and since then he has been in full time service in the master’s vineyard, (Fishers of Men Charismatic Church) Pst. Ig Nwabuo is married to Sis Delight Nwabuo and they are blessed with sons and daughters and grandchildren. He is based in Benin City, Edo State, Nigeria.