October 11, (THEWILL) – Popular cleric, Apostle Johnson Suleman, has alleged that a police officer masterminded last year’s deadly attack on his convoy.
THEWILL reported how gunmen attacked the convoy of Suleman, the founder of Omega Fire Ministries, killing seven people, including three police officers.
The attack occurred around the Auchi area of the State while Suleman was heading to an unidentified location, hours after returning from a trip to the East African country, Tanzania.
The cleric had described the attack as an assassination attempt.
Suleman said, after the attack, an unnamed police officer narrated in a post on his social media page how he (the officer) had deployed officers to the cleric but they all died under mysterious circumstances.
“I have never met the guy (the officer) in my life,” the cleric said during a live broadcast.
A video clip of the live broadcast was posted on the Facebook page of Omega Fire Ministries on September 2.
The cleric said he had informed the police authorities in Nigeria that he would tell members of his church about the post of the officer.
Suleman said he responded to the officer via the post and scolded him.
He said the officer was arrested two weeks ago before he (the officer) wrote an apology letter to him in private, which he rejected.
“You defamed me in public, go and make the apology in public,” the cleric told the officer.
Suleman said no police officer attached to his convoy had died before. He said the attack on his convoy happened because another unnamed police officer sold him out.
“The plan was that he (unnamed officer) should drive and I will be seated. When they (gunmen) start shooting, he would open the car and run out,” Suleman said.
The cleric claimed that, on the fateful day, God had ministered to him to drive by himself as against the initial plan to let the officer drive him.
“I took the (car) key and when I did that, he bent his head,” Suleman said of the unnamed officer.
“He (the unnamed officer) was the first to be wasted.”
The Police Spokesperson in Edo State, SP Chidi Nwabuzor, responding to the allegation of complicity, said, “The matter is with the Force Criminal Investigation Department.”
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