PRESS RELEASE
Ekiti State Governor and Chairman
of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Governors’ Forum, Mr. Ayodele Fayose has
warned the Department of State Services (DSS) over the planned detention and
trial of Apostle Johnson Suleiman of The Omega Fire Ministries Worldwide and
the General Overseer of Living Faith Church Worldwide International (Winners'
Chapel International), Bishop David Oyedepo, describing it as indirect
invitation to religious crisis in the country.
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| *Bishop Oyedepo |
Governor Fayose alleged that, "There is plan to charge Apostle Suleiman and Bishop Oyedepo for
incitement and attempt to cause public disorder on Friday, and make sure that
they are not granted bail so to get them remanded in Kuje Prison
perpetually."
He said this plan was to humiliate these men of God as
well as silence them and create fear in other people that may want to speak
against the heinous crime against humanity being committed daily while
perpetrators are being shielded by the federal government.
In a statement issued on Sunday by is Special Assistant
on Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka, Governor Fayose said the
DSS should tell Nigerians how many of the Fulani herdsmen that killed thousands
of Nigerians across the country have been arrested before going after Nigerians
who merely expressed their frustration over the to failure of the federal
government to protect them.
The governor said: "Even
though the DSS has allowed commonsense to prevail by properly inviting Apostle
Suleiman as against the gestapo manner with which the service attempted to
abduct him last week Wednesday, it is still questionable that the DSS is more
interested in a man who threatened to defend himself against any attack by
Fulani herdsmen rather than those herdsmen that murdered thousands of
Nigerians.”
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| *Apostle Suleiman |
According to the governor: "it is sad and worrisome that after muzzling opposition
politicians, judiciary and the press, the APC-led federal government has taken
its desperation to suppress dissenting voices in the country to the House of
God."
Governor Fayose maintained that “if the DSS had acted swiftly like it is doing on Apostle Suleiman
so-called inciting comments when people were being killed by herdsmen across
the country, so many lives would have been saved.”
He advised the government and the DSS not to go ahead
with these plans as it will heat up the polity and threaten the peaceful
coexistence of Nigerians, calling on well meaning Nigerians to prevail on the
federal government to desist from acts capable of throwing the country into
further crisis.
Governor Fayose, who reiterated his call for the release
of the head of Nigeria's Islamic Movement (IMN), Ibrahim El-Zakzaky, who has
been in detention since late 2015 despite that the court ruled that he should
be released, affirmed that "he will
continue to stand for Nigeria and its people, not for any religion and it is my
position that rights of all Nigerians must be respected and protected.”
The governor urged the APC-led federal government to pay
attention to the economy it destroyed, with the aim to revamping it and saving
Nigerians from the hunger ravaging the land.
"Nigeria
is already being ravaged by war of hunger, economic recession, job losses and
lack of leadership direction. It will be disastrous for the country to be
plunged into religious crisis.
"Apart
from during the civil war, Nigerians have not been badly divided as a nation as
we are under the President Muhammadu Buhari administration. Killings under this
government in 18 months are more than what was witnessed in the last 20
years," the governor said.
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