The much-publicized sex scandal involving Apostle Johnson Suleman and Canada-based Nigerian singer cum stripper, Stephanie Otobo is gathering new momentum as she has sued the man of God for $5 million.
Otobo
who filed the lawsuit in her base in Ontario, Canada, according to
Sahara Reporters, is for damages resulting from a breach of trust,
breach of fiduciary relations, breach of contract, negligence,
defamation, poisoning, intentional and negligent infliction of emotional
stress and forcible confinement.
Other prayers filed by Otobo include multiple instances of battery, false imprisonment, fraud, assaults, sexual assaults, sexual harassments, harassments and malicious prosecution.
A
letter dated April 19, 2017, with case file number CV-17-573595 signed
by Registrar of the Ontario Superior Court and addressed to Apostle
Suleman’s Ontario residence, posited that Otobo has filed a lawsuit
against the General Overseer of the Omega Fire Ministries Worldwide.
The
lawsuit is also seeking an order restraining Apostle Suleman from
contacting any communication, directly or indirectly, with Otobo while
in Canada, and restraining the pastor from being at a distance of at
least 500 meters from her.
The court summons
revealed facts that include that Apostle Suleman had first been
introduced to Otobo around June of 2015 in Canada as one in need of
spiritual guidance, averring that he had afterward groomed and mentored
Otobo under his care.
It also revealed Otobo’s
status at the time as a refugee in Apostle Suleman’s care, after which
she had been invited by Suleman to Italy and other European countries in
continuation of the grooming, whereupon an amorous relationship had
developed between both parties, resulting from psychological programming
sessions during the grooming periods.
The letter
went further to reveal that Apostle Suleman had invited Otobo to his
church in Nigeria in the summer of 2015, whereupon they had a sexual
relationship that resulted in a pregnancy by August 2015.
It also noted that
after she became pregnant, Apostle Suleman thereafter met with the
family of Otobo who includes the mother, sister, and other relations,
bearing gifts, and informing the family of his undertaking to marry her.
But
soon after in late August 2015, Otobo arrived in Nigeria on the
invitation of Apostle Suleman, making her abandon her career with the
intention of coming to be with her husband-to-be.
She
was allegedly lodged at the Definite Destiny Hotel in Lagos where
things took a dramatic turn when Otobo said she was given a concoction
which Apostle Suleman called 'spiritual drink' but which was aimed at
terminating her pregnancy.
Otobo said shortly
after drinking the concoction, she suffered bleeding and managed to
regain consciousness after she was given pain-killing pills by Apostle
Suleman.
She
averred that she subsequently returned to Canada to receive further
treatment, even as she was then stalked by followers of Apostle Suleman
who were also his church’s congregants in Canada.
She
said that she eventually returned to Nigeria early this year to seek
redress for her ordeal, but was arrested on March 17, 2017, in company
of a male friend in Lagos and then arraigned on charges of terrorism
and blackmail, and detained in different centers by the Nigerian police
before being granted bail, even as the matter remains pending in court.
See copies of the petition here.
