A Lagos High Court sitting in Ikeja has struck out the 2017 defamation lawsuit filed by the General Overseer of Omega Fire Ministries Worldwid
A Lagos High Court sitting in Ikeja has struck out the 2017 defamation lawsuit filed by the General Overseer of Omega Fire Ministries Worldwide, Apostle Johnson Suleman, against Omoyele Sowore, and Canada-based woman, Stephanie Otobo, over alleged lack of diligent prosecution.
The suit, instituted in 2017, was formally struck out after Suleman allegedly abandoned the case.
The struck-out Lagos case is separate from a more recent lawsuit filed by the cleric in Benin City, Edo State.
The cleric has consistently denied the allegations.
In the suit, Apostle Suleman demanded N1 billion in damages each Sowore and Otobo for what he described as grave injury to his reputation and character.
The lawsuit followed a controversial visit by Otobo’s mother, Mrs. Tope Otobo, to the church’s headquarters in Auchi, Edo State, where she publicly appealed to the cleric to forgive her daughter.
