- Describes Otobo is a serial blackmailer
- Keyamo, a serial divorcee and blackmailer – Church
The Omega Fire Ministries has denied that its General Overseer, Apostle Johnson Suleman, has a hand in the arrest and detention of one Miss Stephanie Otobo by the police last Friday, March 3.
A statement signed by Apostle Suleman’s Communications Manager, Phrank Shaibu, also flatly denied the existence of any ‘amorous relationship’ between the said Miss Otobo and the General Overseer, including a promise to marry her.
The OFM, instead, averred that the lady was arrested by police operatives acting on a tip off that the she 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 OFM statement was in reaction to two letters written by Lagos lawyer, Festus Keyamo, demanding N500 million on behalf of Otobo and also accusing Apostle Suleiman of procuring policemen to intimidate and detain his client unlawfully, having earlier promised to marry her.
But Shaibu said the lawyer was misled into believing that there was an amorous relationship between 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.
The statement reads, “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.”
Shuaibu further debunked Keyamo’s claim of an amorous relationship, a promise to marry and that the Senior Pastor had actually made the initial move towards marriage by seeing her parents, wondering how such a transaction could have taken place without any iota of evidence.
He said, “Let me place it on record that, the lady in question is a self-confessed stripper in a nite club in Canada, who like thousands of people that seek help from Apostle Johnson Suleman, called to pretentiously convey her intentions to embrace Christ and also needed financial help to keep body and soul, as she no longer had a means of livelihood after quitting as a stripper.
“Does Keyamo or his serial blackmailing client have pictures of the visit by Apostle Suleiman or his representatives to her parents? In any case, how could such a relationship have existed when the Apostle and the said lady have never met physically? How could he have made a promise of a house and a lifestyle comparable to what she has in Canada, when he has never been to her house or seen her physically as to have an idea of her living standards?”
Shaibu contented that Keyamo must have been misled or excited by the prospects of getting a whopping N500 million, both reasons for which two letters were written and sent to Apostle Suleiman, wondering how Keyamo could have fallen for such a gimmick in the first place.
“If Keyamo was not misled or excited by the prospects of a jackpot of N500 million and or an opportunity to save his already dwindling career in law practice from total caput by latching on the popularity of Apostle Suleman vide this tendentiously devilish plot and skewed romantic fantasy, then we may as well demand an evaluation of his mental state along with his client, who was obviously on the verge of delusion before she was arrested. It’s either one of the options stated above or he is trying to engage in a proxy war on behalf of some unknown agents, who had become irritated by Apostle’s stand on national issues,” he declared.
The OFM spokesman advised Keyamo to drop the proxy war and focus instead on defending his client in court, adding that all attempts to impugn the integrity of the fiery preacher or the OFM would fall like a pack of cards.
It said, “We are not surprised that this serial blackmailer decided to join forces with a serial divorcee, who has had five children from four failed marriages, to make this phantom claim. But we dare to ask: Is a serial blackmailer and or a serial divorcee capable of understanding the sanctity of the institution called marriage? The nature of their mental torpidity is understandable and we invite more recondite and decent persons to read in between the lines and separate the wheat from the chaff.
“In this well-coordinated plot to pull down Apostle Suleman at all costs, the lines of Reuben Abati will suffice: ‘Lies have become standard stuff, mischief a major commodity, and indecency a character flaw’.
If Keyamo and his Canada-returnee client think they can capitalise on the famed generosity of Apostle Suleman to extort N500 million through this plot, they sure have missed it, as we shall have our day in court.”
