Ayodele Fayose, the Ekiti state governor and the chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Governors’s Forum, in the early hours of Wednesday, January 25, thwarted operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS) efforts to arrest Apostle Johnson Suleman of The Omega Fire Ministries Worldwide in Ado Ekiti.

The Pastor who was in Ado Ekiti for a two-day crusade was alleged to have preached against Fulani herdsmen rampage by ordering his members to kill any suspected herdsmen they find near him or his church recently in Auchi, Edo state.
According to reports by Vanguard, Suleman was trailed after paying a courtesy visit to the governor at the Government House to his hotel room by the operatives of the DSS in Adebayo area of the state capital.

The DSS operatives who almost forced their way into the hotel was also said to have been resisted by security men of the hotel who insisted on knowing their mission.

The pastor was said to have alerted Governor Fayose to apprise him of the sudden development.

Consequently, Fayose personally led a rescue mission to prevent the DSS from going away with the pastor by taking him to safety.

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According to Suleman: “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 nearer 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 put this country in fire.”

Governor Fayose expressed his shock over the development. He noted that instead of resulting to such gestapo style of arrest, the DSS could have easily invited the man of God if they have anything against 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.”

Going further, the governor said that harassment of clergymen is a dangerous trend in the country because religion is a volatile issue government should be wary of.

He therefore call on security operatives against intimidation and arrest of men of God in the interest of peace and religious harmony in the country.

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.”

View the video of the development below:

https://www.facebook.com/lere.olayinka/videos/10208270374261941/

Recall that a video recently emerged where the fiery senior pastor of the Omega Fire Ministries Worldwide, Apostle Johnson Suleman asked his church members to deal ruthlessly with any Fulani herdsman whose mission is to attack him or the church.
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Source: https://www.naij.com/1084428-fayose-stops-dss-arresting-apostle-johnson-suleman-ekiti-photo-video.html?source=notification#



P.S: It is unfortunate that someone can not express themselves freely in this country. Arresting a man for what he said as against letting those who killed walk free without arrest. I will do everything within my power to make sure I get more than one VOTE... Before you say I have one vote, forgetting that I have friends, who have friends, who have family and together we can do justice to this nonsense.

We yoruba muslims support his arrest because for threatening our fulani internal colonialists and 'massas'. Lawal daura we yoruba muslims are grateful. Arrest the kaffir!

that form of intimidation won't be tolerated by Christians we'll fight back

@Mynd44, I have added source. Please do justice.

If you a southerner you are a slave
Your grand father was a slave
Your father is/was a slave
If you dont break the chain now
Yr children will be slaves
Start now by saying every morning
Thank God for nnamedi kanu,Ayo Fayose,Femi kayode.
God bless them.

thebestprice:
that form of intimidation won't
be tolerated by Christians
we'll fight back

Leave talk we christian can,t do nothing.

Like play,buhari wan islamize Nigeria.

They sneaked in at night like thieves because they knew in Yorubaland we value visitors. This is a repeat. Adekunle Fajuyi stood up in protest against arrest of Aguiyi Ironsi. In like manner, Fayose stood up against Pastor Suleman's arrest.

This Federal Government has no shame.
What they are doing with fulani herdsmen is what they had intended bokoharam to do, cleanse North of Christianity. Fortunately it backfired. They took the lessons of that failure to structure a new method and the implementation of that agenda is what we witness in herdsmen.

They keep decimating Christian population in Kaduna, Plateau, Benue, Nassarawa, using political machineries while they continue to sing that the matter should not be politicised, it is a criminality.

It is pathetic the Chief Security of a State will admit acts of criminality exist but go on public airwave to declare he has compensated criminals to stop attacks on victims. When asked to arrest the criminals he said no one know who they are. So who did he pay compensation?

Those who continue to listen to soft speeches and pacification and mental reasoning on why their massacre is a spontaneous criminality and not a premeditated political action are to be blamed, not the perpetrator.

if you are only a citizen without followers is okay..

but when you have so much followers that listen to you,then its a crime..

hitler is an example...