Ekiti State Governor and Chairman of the Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP) Governors’ Forum, Ayo Fayose has warned the Department
of State Services (DSS) over the alleged 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.
In a statement issued by his Special Assistant on Public
Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka, 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 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. According to Fayose, 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.
"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. It is sad and worrisome that after muzzling opposition
politicians, judiciary and the press, the APC led federal government has taking
its desperation to suppress dissenting voices in the country to the House of
God. 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.”
He 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 loss 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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