Apostle Johnson Suleman has found
himself in another s.e.x scandal barely four years after he was accused by
Stephanie Otobo and a lady identified as Queen Esther.
This time, the accusation is
coming from Pastor Mike Davids, who has left his church but claimed that the
General Overseer of Omega Fire Ministries International slept with his wife
Pastor Faith Edeko, who heads the Abuja branch of the church in Utako.
Pastor Davids also accused
Apostle Suleman of threatening his life and denying him access to his three
children.
In the petition he sent to the
IG, Davids said he met Apostle Suleman in 2003 while he was in school. He said
they became very close and he was eventually ordained a pastor of Omega Fire
Ministries on June 9, 2006 by Apostle Suleman and served the church for over 15
years before his exit in 2019. He attached his pastoral certificate with
license number 125 to the petition.
In another three videos posted on
Instagram on Sunday, the aggrieved pastor accused Suleman of sleeping with his
wife and destroying his marriage.
Davids, who wept in the videos,
said he began a relationship with his wife in secondary school and they courted
for about 11 years before marriage.
He said in 2008 he introduced his
wife – who was still his fiancée at the time – to Apostle Suleman whom he
regarded as his spiritual father and she told him that Suleman had been making
advances at her and once invited her to Reliance Hotel, Benin, but he never
regarded it as anything serious.
The aggrieved pastor said things
finally began to go downhill when he was posted to Osun State in 2010 shortly
after the birth of their daughter, Michelle, in November 2009.
The petitioner said Apostle
Suleman was setting up a gospel television station and then said he would need
the assistance of his wife who was an employee of NTA.
He said it was during the visits
to Apostle Suleman that he eventually slept with his wife but what made it more
painful was that the act was done in the presence of their child.
Davids said, “My wife was a
staffer with NTA Iruekpen, so Apostle Suleman reached out to her that they will
need her to build Celebration TV and Rhema for Living. She would have to
shuttle between Osun State and Auchi.
“She came back from Auchi to Osun
State and said she wanted to talk to me that her conscience was pricking her. I
asked what was it and she said that while in Auchi, Apostle Suleman lodged her
at Uyi Grand Hotel and he came there and slept with her.
“And the moment she said that,
the first thing that came to my mind was my daughter. I asked where was
Michelle when this happened and she said Michelle was on the bed, pushed aside
and I asked, ‘You mean you slept with a man with my daughter on the bed?’. I
had to let it go because there was nobody I could tell and I couldn’t fight
with Apostle Suleman… I forgave her but the amorous relationship continued. One
thing I know is that my wife was hypnotised. This is not the woman I got
married to, who I knew for 11 years.”
Davids said his relationship with
Apostle Suleman soon turned sour and he was suspended but after the suspension
was lifted, he refused to return and then started receiving threats from
Apostle Suleman.
He alleged that when he left the
church in July 2019, his wife started to fight with him and then his wife left
the house with their three children and they relocated to Abuja.
The pastor said though estranged,
he and his wife remain married because their marriage has not been dissolved by
a competent court.
Davids said, “Apostle Suleman has
given her a branch of the church in Utako, Abuja to head without permission. I
am calling on Pastor David Oyedepo, Pastor Paul Enenche, Pastor Enoch Adeboye,
Pastor Margaret Idahosa, CAN, PFN.
“Apostle Suleman has damaged my
life. I have not seen my wife and children for two years and Apostle Suleman
says if I ever go near them, he will have me taken out. I have a video where he
said he will make me disappear. I don’t want to lose my life.”
However, his wife, Pastor Faith
Edeko, in another video, described her husband’s allegations as cheap
blackmail, adding that it was the petitioner that abandoned the marriage and
when her relatives reached out to him, he refused to return home.
She said the ordeal affected her
health and she even contemplated suicide but her son stopped her.
Pastor Edeko, who wept in the
video, said she never slept with Apostle Suleman, adding that she did not even have
easy access to him.
She said, “There are recordings
which I will upload. You told my brothers that I would crawl in the gutters. I
told them not to do anything to you, that you are still the father of my kids.
At some point, I contemplated suicide. I had written my suicide note, I had
bought sniper because I could not fathom how I would live life in so much pain.
I won’t drag you because of my children… you have done too much and it is
enough. I am not hypnotised. I am not under a spell.”
She said she did not abandon her
marriage. Rather, it was her husband who abandoned the family and even demanded
a refund of her bride price from her family.
She said, “I don’t know what you
hope to achieve, I don’t know who paid you but the only thing I will say is
haven’t you done enough? Are you not tired of flogging someone’s daughter in
pain?
“You left me in Kano. You called
me on a certain day that you were going to leave the marriage. I thought you
were bluffing. I called my people and they can testify. My elder brother called
you from the UK. You told them you were leaving the marriage. My elder brother
told me you were bluffing.
“I remember I begged you and then
I got to the office and I collapsed, according to what my principal said
because I found myself in the hospital.”
She said that no one was
preventing Pastor Davids from seeing his children, adding that he lived in the
same city with them but had refused to visit.
However, The Inspector-General of
Police, Mohammed Adamu, has ordered a probe into the matter.
The IGP conveyed the order in a
letter addressed to the Deputy Inspector-General of Police, Force Intelligence
Bureau, Garki.
The police letter is titled, ‘Re:
Criminal Petition Against Apostle Johnson Suleman for Enticement of a Married
Woman; Adultery; Unlawful Criminal Restraint to Access Children and Threat to
Life’.
The letter reads in part, “I
attach herewith a copy of a letter dated December 30, 2020 with its attachments
received from V.C Ezenagu & Associates on the above-underlined subject. The
Inspector-General of Police directs that you treat. Accept the assurances of my
esteemed regards please.”
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