The mother of the Canada-based Nigerian lady, Stephanie Otobo, who alleged she had sex many times with Apostle Johnson Suleman of Omega Fire Ministry, Auchi, on the promise of marriage, has called her daughter a liar and a victim of manipulation by her lawyers who want to make name.
In an interview with Premium Times in Sapele, Mama Tope, as she is popularly called, repudiated her daughter’s current life-style, saying invariably that she is now wayward.
“All those her character is not giving me happiness,” she said.
The Sapele market-woman asked Nigerians to help her “pray and pray for her that God should deliver her.”
Contrary, to the claims by her daughter in a recent video, Mama Tope said nobody forced or threatened her to go and apologize to Apostle Suleman. She said she went to Auchi to beg the Man of God in order to put an end to the matter as a mother who was worried about her daughter.
“Nobody threatened me. It is because I am a mother. When I saw what was going on, the day you people came to the market I said I wanted to go and meet the man of God to apologise so that we can put an end to the matter.
“Because I know my daughter. I did not bring her up this way and the way she is behaving is not normal. So, I said I want to go and beg the man of God to forgive her so that this matter can die off.
“Because I cannot continue with this (and) the way I am seeing it, I don’t want anything of such to happen again. Nobody threatened to kill me or prompted me to do so. I went there on my own to apologise to man of God.”
When asked if her daughter lied, she gave a categorically yes answer. She regretted that it was not the way she brought her up.
“This is not the way I brought her up because I brought many children up. They are not behaving like this. Somebody is brainwashing her, polluting her mind and that is what is making her to do all this things that she is doing now.
“All those lawyers are using her to get their own names. They should leave my daughter alone. They should leave my daughter out of this matter. I am still talking about all those lawyers, they should leave my daughter alone.
“I don’t know them but I believe that all those lawyers supporting her are using her. I am begging the government that they should leave my daughter alone. They should release my daughter from what they are doing to her.
“I don’t want to see my daughter destroyed. That is why I am saying that all those lawyers should leave my daughter and bring her out of this matter.”
Mama Tope said she went to beg Apostle Suleman because she was afraid that being a Man of God, Suleman could go at any length to harm her daughter.
“You know when you call somebody a man of God, he can go to any length. So I don’t want the man of God to go to any length, to do any evil prayer because when we heard of it that time, this pastors’ association (South-South chapter of the Christian Association of Nigeria) praying all their sorts of things.
“I cannot sit down here watching my daughter like that. That is why I said I want to go to the source to beg that man. Nobody tortured me. I went alone. I entered vehicle from Sapele to Auchi.”
Stephanie Mother also said it was a lie that marriage discussions were held in the pastor’s office, clarifying that there was nothing like marriage, I did not go there for marriage. No woman goes to collect dowry, she said. “That one na abomination.”
She was said her daughter never told her she was pregnant and all the story that she was stooling blood for a year after Mr. Suleman forced her to do abortion, as Stephanie had claimed in a video.
Mama Tope lamented that she does not know what has come over her daughter.
“She was not wayward while growing up, that is why what is happening is surprising me.
“Somebody is behind this matter because she was not like that before. She is a good child. She loved me and I love her.
“So, along the way, I don’t know what happened; that is why I said they are manipulating her, using something against her and I want every Nigerian to help me to pray, pray for her that God should deliver her.”
It is left to be seen if this would be adjudged to be an exoneration of Apostle Suleman. Stephanie Otobo is an adult and, as typical of Nigerians girls, she could have had lots of amorous relationships without her mother having a clue.
Abuja, for instance, is awash with prostitutes and the parents of those girls littering its streets, are unaware of what their daughters are doing. They may even swear that their daughters are saints.
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