A Canada based Nigerian artiste, Stephanie Otobo has accused the Omega Fire Ministries General Overseer, Apostle Johnson Suleman of using the police force to harass her in addition to breaching a marriage proposal with her.

Solicitors for Otobo, Festus Keyamo Chambers made the issue public on Sunday, saying the clergyman had promised to marry Otobo and led her to falsely believe that he had legally divorced his wife.

Otobo who fell in love with the Suleman had then forfeited her affluent lifestyle in Europe, to honor the proposition extended to her by the apostle to marry him and live with him in Nigeria, the solicitors said.
However, after some time passed, Suleman broke the promise to marry the artist. Otobo then sued the Apostle for N500m.

Instead of getting a solicitor to fight his course in the court of law or just paying the sum to the aggrieved lady, Apostle Suleman allegedly engaged the help of policemen to arrest and incarcerate Otobo without any explanation.

However, after the lady’s solicitors petitioned the Inspector General of Police and the news trickled out that Apostle Suleman had detained a woman who sued him for breaking his promise to marry her, the church came out to deny the allegation on behalf of its General Overseer.

Phrank Shaibu spokesman of the church said Suleman has no hand in the arrest and detention of one Otobo by the police last Friday.

Shaibu also denied on behalf of Suleman that there was a so called amorous relationship between the said Miss Otobo and the General Overseer, including a promise to marry her.

Instead, the church stated that the lady was arrested by operatives acting on a tip off that the lady had repeatedly tried to blackmail the fiery preacher, including demanding N500 million from him, failing which she threatened to expose a purported amorous relationship between her and the Senior Pastor.

The statement of Omega Fire Ministries was in reaction to two letters written by Lagos lawyer, Festus Keyamo demanding the same N500 million on behalf of the said lady and also accusing Apostle Suleiman of procuring policemen to intimidate and detain his client unlawfully, having earlier promised to marry her.
But Phrank Shaibu said the lawyer was misled into believing that there was an amorous relationship between Apostle Suleman and the said Miss Otobo, pointing out that the lady was caught up by her own machinations as she was arrested while trying to withdraw money paid into her account by the Church in a sting operation coordinated by the police.

“Unknown to Keyamo, the police was alerted following several attempts by the said lady to blackmail Apostle Suleiman. The police also recorded her conversations making the frivolous demand. The highpoint of the drama was her attempt to withdraw money paid into her account at the instance of the police. The lawyer should know that his client was arrested by the police with abundance of evidence confirming that she is indeed a serial blackmailer”, he said.