Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State has described the adultery
allegation against Apostle Johnson Suleman of the Omega Power Ministry
by one Miss Stephanie Otobo as “high level conspiracy meant to destroy
the integrity of the pastor and silence his critical and principled
voice of truth and dissent in a nation fast becoming a one-party state.”
He
said; “This was the same way they tried to drag the General Overseer of
the Redeemed Christians Church of God (RCCG), Pastor Enoch Adejare
Adeboye in the mud. The whole world was aghast at how they insulted and
ridiculed the highly-revered RCCG General Overseer. But for the outcry
from all over the world, they almost bundled out Pastor Adeboye from his
position as RCCG General Overseer and could have even arrested the
General Overseer of Winners Chapel, David Oyedepo.”
In a statement
issued on Wednesday in Ado-Ekiti by his Special Assistant on Public
Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka, the governor declared
unequivocally that; “I stand by Apostle Suleiman and other men of God
being directly or indirectly persecuted by the All Progressives Congress
(APC) cabal.”
The governor said; “their evil plan is to destroy
the Church so as to silence every perceivable strong voice of
opposition. And their mode of operation is to take on every vocal,
principled, and popular man of God one after the other.
“Should it
not interest Nigerians and the international community that up till
today, none of those herdsmen that killed thousands of Nigerians in
Benue, Enugu, Delta, Ogun, Plateau and Kaduna States have been arrested?
Even those arrested in connection with the murder an Abuja-based female
pastor, Eunice Elisha, have been released.”
Governor Fayose
wondered why all the adultery allegations and blackmail against Apostle
Suleiman surfaced only after he spoke out against the reckless and
indiscriminate killing of Christians in Southern Kaduna and his
subsequent encounter with the Department of State Services (DSS).
“This,
no doubt, is a continuation of the desperate but despicable and
condemnable attempts to destroy opposition and the voices of reason in
this country so as to subjugate every decent Nigerian and turn the
country into a banana republic.
“After politically subjugating
many Nigerians, including a section of the Judiciary that refused to do
their bidding; they have now turned on men of God, this is condemnable,”
the governor said.
Governor Fayose charged the Christian
Association of Nigeria (CAN) and other Christian bodies not to stay
aloof but to stand up resolutely and speak out vociferously against what
he called “orchestrated attempt to destroy the Church and respected
Church leaders in Nigeria.”
He berated those behind the travails
of Apostle Suleiman as confirmed polygamists, serial adulterers, and
others whose holier-than-thou attitude was sheer hypocrisy.
“Anyone
who has a case against any man of God should swear an oath, proceed to
the law court and face the rigours, rather than engage in media trial
and character assassination, which have become the hallmark of this
administration.”
Governor Fayose wondered why the perpetrators of
the wicked scheme against Apostle Suleiman were not relenting even after
the father of the woman making the wild allegations had punctured her
loathsome and outrageous claims.
“The family of Stephanie Otobo
has disclaimed her and her claims. Rather than own up and recant, those
paying for the entire drama are making her to keep changing and
modifying her claims, with they all still collapsed like a pack of
cards. All other efforts to enlist other blackmailers against this man
of God have likewise collapsed irretrievably.
“I therefore make
bold to say that I stand by Apostle Suleiman. I also call on all those
who believe in me to do likewise and carry the message abroad. To me,
this plot against Apostle Suleiman is madness carried too far.
“One
wonders why this same resources and vigour with which Apostle Suleiman
is being blackmailed have not been deployed into confronting those
murderous herdsmen that are slaughtering Nigerians like animals across
the country,” Fayose concluded.
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