– Fayose says allegations against Apostle Suleman were continuation of attacks on the Church in the bid to silence outspoken Christian clerics
– The Ekiti governor claims Apostle Suleman is definitely being prosecuted by the APC-led federal government for speaking out against the Fulani herdsmen killings
– Fayose wants the Christian Association of Nigeria and other Christian organisations to come to Apostle Suleman’s aid
Fayose says Apostle Suleman’s travails have signature of persecution
Ekiti state governor Ayodele Fayose has accused the All Progressives Congress (APC)-led federal government of being behind the travails of popular cleric Apostle Suleman of the Omega Power Ministry, who is presently embroiled in a scandal over extra-marital affair with one Stephanie Otobo.
Daily Sun reports that Fayose made the accusation through a statement by his aide on public communications and new media Lere Olayinka on Wednesday, March 15.
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The governor described the allegations against Suleman 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.”
Fayose declared his support for Apostle Suleiman in the statement released in Ado-Ekiti, the Ekiti state capital and claimed that the APC has an agenda to persecute Christian leaders.
He said: ”I stand by Apostle Suleiman and other men of God being directly or indirectly persecuted by the All Progressives Congress (APC) cabal.
“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.”
He added that “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 of 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 against the killings by Fulani herdsmen.
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“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.
“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.
“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.
Recall that Fayose helped Apostle Suleman to escape arrest by operatives of the Department of State Services in the early hours of Wednesday, January 25.
The Pastor, who was in Ado Ekiti for a two-day crusade, was alleged to have preached against Fulani herdsmen rampage by ordering his members to kill any suspected herdsmen they find near him or his church recently in Auchi, Edo state.
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