Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State
Ayodele Fayose, the governor of Ekiti
State and chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party PDP Governors’ Forum,
has warned the country’s secret police, the State Security Services,
SSS, also known as DSS over the planned detention and trial of Apostle
Johnson Suleiman of the Omega Fire Ministries Worldwide and the
president and presiding bishop of Living Faith Church Worldwide
International, aka Winners Chapel International, Dr. David Oyedepo,
describing it as indirect invitation to religious crisis in the country.
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.
Bishop David Oyedepo ministering at Canaanland, Ota, Ogun State during a Shiloh Programme | Living Faith Blogs
In an e-mailed statement to The Trent
issued on Sunday, January 29, 2017 by a media aide to Governor Fayose,
Mr. Lere Olayinka, said that 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 common
sense 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.
The governor said; “it is sad and
worrisome that after muzzling opposition politicians, judiciary and the
press, the APC led federal government has taken its desperation to
suppress dissenting voices in the country to the House of God.”
Governor Fayose maintained that; “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.”
Apostle Johnson Suleman, general overseer of Omega Fire MInistries
The governor 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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