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 and 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 she
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 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.
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