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.”
