The sex scandal trouble of the general overseer of Omega Fire Ministries, Apostle Suleman got complicated on Thursday when her accuser Canada-based Nigerian lady, Stephanie Otobo filed a suit against the preacher at a Canadian High Court, claiming $5million for sexual assault and breach of promise to marry, among other reliefs.
A letter dated April 19 2017, with case file No. CV-17-573595, signed by Registrar of the Ontario Superior Court and addressed to Apostle Suleman’s Ontario residence, showed that Ms. Otobo has slammed a law suit on Mr. Suleman, claiming Canadian $5milion for damages for breach of trust, breach of fudiciary relations, breach of contract, negligence, defamation, poisoning, intentional and negligent infliction of emotional stress, forcible confinement, multiple instances of battery, false imprisonment, fraud, assaults, sexual assaults, sexual harassments, harassments and malicious prosecution.
The self-professed songstress is also seeking an order restraining Suleman from contacting and communicating, directly or indirectly, with her while in Canada, and an order that Suleman keeps at least a 500 meters distance from the plaintiff at all times.
Apostle Suleman has within 40 (forty days), according to Canadian laws to file and serve his statement of defense. But in event of his failure to appear before the Ontario Superior Court, however, judgment may still be given against him without further notice given to him.
This is a major legal twist to the Otobo Vs. Suleman sex controversy.
In the suit, Ms. Otobo said she was first introduced to Apostle Suleman in June of 2015 in Canada as one in need of spiritual guidance.
She alleged that as a spiritual refugee under Suleman’s care, she had been invited by the Man of God to Italy and other European countries and that during those travels a sexual relationship developed between them. This resulted from spiritual brain-washing, she alleged.
Also Ms. Otobo alleged that Suleman had invited her to his church in Nigeria in the summer of 2015, during which she had sex with him, resulting in pregnancy by August 2015.
According to facts of the case, Apostle Suleman thereafter met with the Otobo family – meeting Stephanie’s mother, sister and other relations, with gifts, informing them of his intention to marry Stephanie.
Ms. Otobo averred that she relied on Suleman’s promise of marriage, which led her, upon further prompting from Suleman, to abandon her lucrative career and property in Canada and returned to Nigeria to be with her would-be husband.
In August 2015, Ms. Otobo told the court that she arrived in Nigeria to meet Suleman at the Definite Destiny Hotel in Lagos. There she was given a concoction, which Apostle Suleman allegedly misrepresented as”spiritual drink”. It later turned out to be abortion inducing mixture, aimed at terminating her pregnancy.
Ms. Otobo claimed she suffered bleeding after taking the concoction but managed to regain consciousness after she was given pain-killing pills by her lover, Suleman. After the ugly experience, she returned to Canada for further treatment. However, she alleged stalking by followers of Suleman who were also his church’s congregants in Canada.
When she eventually returned to Nigeria early this year to seek justice for her, she was arrested on March 17, 2017, in company of a male friend in Lagos and then arraigned on trumped up charges, including terrorism, by Nigerian police officers working under the direction of Suleman, Ms. Otobo alleged. She was then detained in different centers by the Nigerian police before being granted bail, with the matter still pending in court.
Apostle Suleman has not responded to the latest development.
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