Ekiti State Governor and Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)
\nGovernors\u2019 Forum, Mr Ayodele Fayose has warned the Department of State
\nServices (DSS) over the planned detention and trial of Apostle Johnson
\nSuleiman of The Omega Fire Ministries Worldwide and the General Overseer
\nof Living Faith Church Worldwide International (Winners\u2019 Chapel
\nInternational), Bishop David Oyedepo, describing it as indirect invitation
\nto religious crisis in the country.<\/p>\n
Governor Fayose alleged that; \u201cThere is plan to charge Apostle Suleiman
\nand Bishop Oyedepo for incitement and attempt to cause public disorder on
\nFriday, and make sure that they are not granted so to get them remanded in
\nKuje Prison perpetually.\u201d<\/p>\n
He said this plan was to humiliate these men of God as well as silence
\nthem and create fear in other people that may want to speak against the
\nheinous crime against humanity being committed daily while perpetrators
\nare being shielded by the federal government.<\/p>\n
In a statement issued on Sunday by is Special Assistant on Public
\nCommunications and New Media, Lere Olayinka, Governor Fayose said the DSS
\nshould tell Nigerians how many of the Fulani herdsmen that killed
\nthousands of Nigerians across the country have been arrested before going
\nafter Nigerians who merely expressed their frustration over the to failure
\nof the federal government to protect them.<\/p>\n
The governor said; \u201cEven though the DSS has allowed commonsense to prevail
\nby properly inviting Apostle Suleiman as against the gestapo manner with
\nwhich the service attempted to abduct him last week Wednesday, it is still
\nquestionable that the DSS is more interested in a man who threatened to
\ndefend himself against any attack by Fulani herdsmen rather than those
\nherdsmen that murdered thousands of Nigerians.<\/p>\n
The governor said; \u201cit is sad and worrisome that after muzzling opposition
\npoliticians, judiciary and the press, the APC led federal government has
\ntaking its desperation to suppress dissenting voices in the country to the
\nHouse of God.\u201d<\/p>\n
Governor Fayose maintained that; \u201cIf the DSS had acted swiftly like it is
\ndoing on Apostle Suleiman so-called inciting comments when people were
\nbeing killed by herdsmen across the country, so many lives would have been
\nsaved.\u201d<\/p>\n
He advised the government and the DSS not to go ahead with these plans as
\nit will heat up the polity and threaten the peaceful coexistence of
\nNigerians, calling on well meaning Nigerians to prevail on the federal
\ngovernment to desist from acts capable of throwing the country into
\nfurther crisis.<\/p>\n
Governor Fayose, who reiterated his call for the release of the head of
\nNigeria\u2019s Islamic Movement (IMN), Ibrahim El-Zakzaky, who has been in
\ndetention since late 2015 despite that the court ruled that he should be
\nreleased, affirmed that \u201che will continue to stand for Nigeria and its
\npeople, not for any religion and it is my position that rights of all
\nNigerians must be respected and protected.\u201d<\/p>\n
The governor urged the APC led federal government to pay attention to the
\neconomy it destroyed, with the aim to revamping it and saving Nigerians
\nfrom the hunger ravaging the land.<\/p>\n
\u201cNigeria is already being ravaged by war of hunger, economic recession, Ekiti State Governor and Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Governors\u2019 Forum, Mr Ayodele Fayose has warned the Department of State Services (DSS) over the planned detention and trial…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51607,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exclusive"],"yoast_head":"\n
\njob loss and lack of leadership direction. It will be disastrous for the
\ncountry to be plunged into religious crisis. \u201cApart from during the civil
\nwar, Nigerians have not been badly divided as a nation as we are under the
\nPresident Muhammadu Buhari administration. Killings under this government
\nin 18 months<\/span><\/span> are more than what was witnessed in the last 20 years,\u201d the
\ngovernor said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"