BEVERLY HILLS, February 24, (THEWILL) – Founder of the Omega Fire Ministry (OFM), Apostle Johnson Suleman, has apologised for his remark that the COVID-19 pandemic should not end, saying it was a “slip of the tongue.”
THEWILL recalls that the clergyman had faced social media cynicism concerning the statement he recently made in a video wherein he boasted of purchasing his third private jet during the COVID-19 pandemic.
In the video, Suleman had prayed that the pandemic should not end since he was “resting.”
However, speaking to members of his congregation on Tuesday, he stated that the comment was made in “error” and accused the Pastor who edited the video of deliberately using that part to discredit him.
According to Suleiman, he was only trying to explain how the pandemic brought families together and how some people progressed irrespective of it.
He said: “There’s a video that is trending about me. It was posted by a pastor against me. It was a programme I had in Abuja and I was trying to explain something about COVID-19. When they told me that I prayed for COVID-19 not to end, I said ‘me? I didn’t say that.”
“When they brought the video, I discovered it slipped out of my mouth. There’s no pastor that will pray for COVID-19 not to end. It doesn’t make sense.
“I was talking about what happens around COVID-19, how families were staying together, how families united, how some people even made money during that process. That was what I was trying to buttress and it slipped out of my mouth. I could not have prayed for Covid not to end, no pastor would do that. But he (the pastor) took that mistake, edited some part and blew it.”
However, he defended the part where he said that he bought his third jet during the pandemic.
He submitted: “If you are angry I mentioned three jets, you will just die. That’s the truth. Then you are angry I mentioned jets, you never vex. If you cannot commend me then you cannot condemn me.
“That of COVID-19, I regretted the way it came out… Not that we were happy that people are dying. That is insensitive.
“God will only be angry with me if I take offering and tithe to buy plane. But if I have avenues of God blessing me, what’s your business? Is your money missing?”
