Apostle Suleiman Storms DSS With 30 Lawyers, Today

Founder of the Omega Fire Ministries, Apostle Johnson Suleiman, will be visiting the office of the Department of State Services (DSS) today, accompanied by 30 lawyers.
Suleiman was invited last Friday to report to the DSS office today over alleged “inciting statements” he made.ý
Suleiman is expected at the DSS headquarters in Abuja today at 10:00am.
“Suleman will be appearing before the DSS with about 30 lawyers because we believe that his persecution has become politicised,” a church source told newsmen, yesterday.
The church’s Communications Adviser, Phrank Shaibu, also confirmed that the pastor will honour the invitation.
He said: “Yes, I can confirm to you that he (Suleiman) was officially invited and as a law-abiding citizen, he will honour the DSS invitation on Monday. The invitation, though ludicrous and an afterthought, is a welcome development.”
This comes after the security agency made an attempt to arrest the cleric in his hotel room in Ado Ekiti, Ekiti State.
The pastor, who was in Ekiti for a two-day crusade that began last Tuesday, was alleged to have been preaching against Islamising Nigeria, and asked members of his church in Auchi, Edo State, to resist the killings by criminals suspected to be Fulani herdsmen, who he alleged of targeting Christians for decimation.
It would be recalled that the cleric had asked his followers penultimate Sunday to kill any Fulani herdsmen who threatens them.
The attempt to whisk away the cleric was foiled by Governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose, early last Wednesday following a tip-off.
Meanwhile, the Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, has warned the Department of State Services (DSS) against alleged plan to detain and subsequently charge to court the General Overseer of The Omega Fire Ministries Worldwide, Apostle Johnson Suleiman.
The governor also alleged that there were plans to invite and charge the General Overseer of the Winners Chapel Ministry, Bishop David Oyedepo, on Wednesday, alongside Suleiman for incitement and attempts to cause public disorder.
Reacting to the development, yesterday, Fayose said the plans to humiliate these men of God and as well silence them to create fear in other people that may speak against heinous crime against humanity being daily committed by criminals would be counter-productive.
He wondered why killer herdsmen were being shielded by the Federal Government that would rather persecute those speaking against them.
The governor advised the government and the DSS not to go ahead with these plans as it would heat up the national peaceful coexistence.
He said, “No herdsman or mastermind of the Kaduna killing has been brought to justice till date.
“The federal government should pay attention to the economy they destroyed and revamp it and safe Nigerians of the hunger ravaging the land.”
Similarly, the Foundation for Human Rights and Anti-Corruption Crusade (FHRACC), Delta State, has warned the Department of State Services (DSS), to rescind the invitation order on the President and Founder of Omega Fire Ministries, Worldwide, Apostle Johnson Suleiman, to appear before it today, over his comment on the genocidal killings of Christians by Fulani herdsmen, saying, “it is an invitation to anarchy.”
FRHRACC, in a statement at the weekend by the National President, Alaowei Cleric Esq, urged the DSS not to stoke religious crisis in the country with its move to browbeat the fiery cleric.
It asserted: “The botched midnight arrest of Apostle Suleiman and his subsequent invitation by the Department of State Services (DSS) is a clear witch-hunt. The move by the DSS to arrest the man of God just because he expressed his feelings on the marauding invasions of the Fulani Herdsmen against Christians in the country is a clear attempt to murder freedom of speech, apparently to engender religious bigotry.”
“DSS should not stoop so low to venture into such dangerous journey, which end will only help to create religious crisis. Our Constitution forbids placing one religious practice above the other ones,” the group said.
It added: “Despite the genocidal killings currently going on in some parts of the country, which has being perpetrated by the now sacred Fulani ethnic-religious warlords, the DSS has not invited any of the Muslim leaders in the country for interrogation. Nothing is more inciting than the DSS’ plans to suppress Christians from exercising their constitutional rights.”
“Handlers of government institutions should be careful of their actions in order not to plunge the country into an anarchic end. Nigeria is a secular country governed by a Constitution. The DSS should not turn itself to an arm of one religious body in the land to perpetrate religious crisis,” the group warned.
“Nigeria belongs to both Christian and Muslim faithful in the country and so, no Christian leader should be made the scapegoat for expressing his feelings towards the Fulani herdsmen’s brigandage.
“We pray that the DSS should not by act or omission instigate religious crisis between Christians and Muslims in the country. We are calling on all well-meaning Nigerians to prevail on the DSS to rescind its decision on Suleiman,” the group asserted.