The General Overseer of the Edo State-based Omega Fire Ministries International, Apostle Johnson Suleman, who escaped from unknown gunmen’s bullets yesterday has revealed who was behind the Thursday night’s attack on his convoy that resulted in the death of seven persons.
In a minute and fifty seconds video he
released on his verified Facebook page on Friday, Suleman suggested that the
attack want to compel him to “come out and speak” about certain issues.
According to the cleric, there have been
constant attacks against him since 2017 but that he has maintained his silence.
“Since 2017, there are certain things that
have been happening that I have been quiet about. Even if you are the most
careless person on earth, you will not give yourself to so many scandals. There
are things people don’t know, even though one or two people along the line took
advantage of that to just come out and say one or two things,” he said.
Suleman was apparently referring to a
controversy that started in 2017, when Canada-based Nigerian singer, Stephanie
Otobo, publicly disclosed that she was in a romantic relationship with the OFM
General Overseer.
At a news briefing she convened in 2017, Otobo
alleged that she had sex escapades with Suleman in the United States and
Italy.
She had subsequently accused the pastor of
illegally procuring abortion and attempting to kill her in a letter she wrote
to the Lagos State Police Commissioner in February 2017.
In 2022, five years after she first leveled
allegations against Suleman, Otobo released a photo of the pastor’s supposed
‘genitals’ on a Twitter.
Apostle Suleman, in the video he released some
minutes ago, said he would not mention the names of those behind the attack on
his convoy but made reference to Otobo’s serial allegations against him.
His words: “But the reason I’m coming out to
speak now is that they’ve done all that and discovered that I’m still moving
on, they decided to make attempts on my life.
“I just escaped an assassination attempt where
seven people were killed. My car was attacked, they opened fire on my car and
kept spraying it with bullets.
“My wife and my kids were there. The Escort
car was (of the) police. They killed the policeman, and they killed the other
people in the escort car and the buses with us.
“Seven people who were moving in the convoy
were killed. People who did this are expecting me to come out and mention their
names, so they’ll come out and deny it. I won’t do that.
“But the truth of the matter is this, you
can’t kill me. My life is in the hand of God. I’m a man of God and those who are
among those attacking me (online), you are building on what you don’t
understand. You may have joined the fora because you want to chase clout, you
don’t know where the fight started.
“There are things you don’t understand. You
don’t have an idea of the beginning of what happened in 2017. The people who
are behind it. You may be doing your own thing, but this is beyond what you’re
thinking.
“I’m alive, for those who have been calling
and all that. I’m well, family is fine.
“I feel bad for the lives that have been taken. We are mourning,
but Jesus is Lord and for all those who they killed, may their souls' rest in
peace. And the young man opened fire and kept wasting people.
“I won’t take your life, but the seed that sowed you will reap
it. I want Nigerians to know that a coordinated lie swallows an uncoordinated
truth but with time the truth will come out.”
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