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Fayose Storms Hotel, Stops DSS Attempt to Arrest Apostle Suleiman in Ekiti

Ekiti State Governor Ayodele Fayose and Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Governor’s Forum, in the early hours ofWednesday foiled an attempt by operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS) to arrest Apostle Johnson Suleiman, who is in Ado Ekiti for a crusade.

The DSS operatives were said to have laid siege on the preacher’s hotel, waiting for him to arrive there from the day’s programme, which was attended by Fayose.

Apostle Suleman, a vocal critic of the Muhammadu Buhari regime’s handling of the Fulani herdsmen terrorising the country, was holding a two-day crusade in Ado Ekiti, when news began to spread that the DSS planned to pick him up at the crusade ground.

The firebrand pastor has been preaching against Islamising Nigeria and asked members of his church in Auchi, Edo State to resist the killings by suspected Fulani herdsmen, who have been killing Christians in Central Nigeria and parts of southern regions of the Christian.

The state agents had attempted to forcefully take the preacher from his hotel room in the Adebayo area of the State capital, but were resisted by the security at the hotel, who had insisted on knowing their mission.

The Pastor was alerted and he called on Governor Fayose who personally led a rescue mission to prevent the DSS operatives from taking the preacher away.

Fayose took the Pastor with him from the hotel to safety and was said to have engaged the security in a verbal altercation on the propriety of their mission.

Narrating his ordeal after being rescued at 2 am on Wednesday, Apostle Sulaiman said: “I came to Ado Ekiti for a crusade. But I had a premonition that I was being trailed after I  preached that Christians should retaliate any attack or killings by the Fulani herdsmen. These Fulani headmen had turned many Christians to orphans and widowers but the time has come to protect ourselves.

“I received several calls from hidden numbers trying to locate where I am and I had warned my security not to allow any Fulani man to come near me. So when the men of DSS came in the middle of the night, I knew their mission and I had to call the Governor because if they arrest me, they will set this country on fire.”

Apostle Johnson Suleiman of The Omega Fire Ministries Worldwide, after his arrest was foiled by Governor Ayodele Fayose.
Governor Fayose, who expressed surprise and dismay the development, said he expected the security operatives to have invited him “ if they have any issue with him instead of  arresting him in the dead of the night after a powerful and spirit-filled crusade in my State.

The Governor said, “I personally attended his crusade and I think it is wrong for a man of God who is armless that could be invited if they have any issue against him. Are Christians and Moslems under different dispensation of the rule of law? That’s why I went there to rescue him. Let them kill two of us together. But when they saw my vehicles and the crowd, they fled.

“But we have information that instructions came from DSS in Abuja that the Pastor should be arrested. We are not in a fascist state, Federal Government must learn to respect the rights of Nigerians and freedom of expression”.

Governor Fayose noted that it was unbecoming of the Federal Government to be harassing the clergymen in the country noting that the General Overseer of Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) Pastor Enoch Adeboye was harassed and forced to resign shortly after he visited him in Ado Ekiti.

He said, “This is unacceptable, We are in a democracy and Nigerians should warn the Presidency against putting this country on fire because religion is an emotional thing.”

The governor also warned security operatives against intimidation and arrest of men of God in the interest of peace and religious harmony in the country. The constitution guarantees freedom of worship.”

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