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Ogala saga: She’s not my daughter – embattled Pastor *VDM will pay heavily
Chris Okafor, Senior Pastor of Mountain of Liberation and Miracle Ministries, otherwise known as Grace Nation Liberation City, has finally moved to clear his name from the scandal trailing him in recent days, starting from the faceoffs from Doris Ogala, who claimed to be his mistress, over “unfulfilled” sour relationship.
Ogala, an actress, had last week, heaped multiple allegations on the cleric, including sharing intimacy with her since 2017 and a promise to marry her, which had now failed as he went ahead to marry another woman.
The vocal actress, who was arrested and detained by police operatives on Sunday, was eventually released on Tuesday, bringing to an end a chapter in the sordid development that has kept the Nigerian social media busy since the first revelation.
However, the cleric who maintained on Wednesday that he was not troubled by the allegations from his accuser, vowed not to toe the same line with the second set of allegations, which came from another young woman, who claimed to be his daughter.
Claiming principally that she was abandoned by the cleric, her supposed father, the young lady, had approached Vincent Otse, a popular activist and influential social media face, otherwise known as VeryDarkMan (VDM), where she poured out her heart on her years of ordeals.
Okafor, told reporters on Wednesday, through Maxwell Opara, his lawyer, that he would not allow the allegation lying low, as the said young lady, was never his daughter as claimed and as has since been claimed by Deoxyribonucleic acid otherwise known as DNA, test.
Opara, said he had notified the social media influencer of his representation on behalf of the cleric and his instruction to demand a retraction and full apology on the pains of full consequences of the law.
Opara told his audience: “We are counsel to Pastor Dr. Chris Okafor, hereinafter referred to as Our Client on whose instructions and instance we are issuing this press briefing in conjunction with concerned members of civil society group.
“It has come to our notice and as well as to the public domain of Cyber Incitement, Cyber Bullying, Cyber Harassment, Cyber Stalking, Criminal Defamation, and malicious acts of impostor perpetrated by Martins Vincent Otse (Popularly Known As Verydarkman) and one young lady who introduced herself as Miss Chi against our Client, Pst. Dr. Chris Okafor, the Senior Pastor; of Mountain of Liberation and Miracle Ministries; also known as Grace Nation Liberation City.
“You recall that the said criminal acts of cyber-bullying, cyber-stalking, scandalous and libellous articles and comments against our client started by One Ms. Doris Ogala and cohorts; however, our interest in this press briefing is not on her and her laughable and gold digging story calculated to exploit our client through cheap blackmail, taking into account the ongoing investigations and interventions of different law enforcement agencies. “We would respectfully, allow the wheels of the law to take their full course in that regard. It is however worrisome, that whilst the above remains inconclusive and under investigation, a disturbing and disparaging story began to make rounds, setting the social media space agog and trailing blaze again the personality of our client.
“It has come to our attention that an individual who identifies herself as Ms. Chi Okafor has been presenting herself online as the biological daughter of our Client (Pastor Dr. Chris Okafor, making false and misleading claims regarding his personal life and family relationships, alleging abandonment and neglect of paternal responsibilities on the part of our client.
“Ordinarily, our client decided not to join issue nor respondent to any characterless, jobless agents of destruction in that he is already aware of where those who are using them trying to pull down his Ministry but he has decided to respond to the falsely claim by the said Miss. Chi that she is the biological daughter of our Client (Pastor Dr. Chris Okafor, so as to put the record straight.
“We wish to make it categorically assertive and unequivocally clear that those claims as alleged by the so called Ms. Chi Okafor are frantically untrue, misleading, malicious, inciting, and injurious to the personality and character of our client.
“But before we narrate the proper story, let me inform you that our client has written a warning letter to Martins Vincent Otse (Popularly Known As Verydarkman) who used his social media handles, such as, Facebook, Instagram, Youtube etc. has continuously harassed, defamed and incited members of the public against our client and threatened our client in the name of activism, just to destroy him and his Ministry and satisfy his paymasters.
“One wonders how an acclaimed activist unlawfully published an interview of a lady who claimed to be our client’s biological daughter, which is “totally false” criminally defaming our client all over the internet, without having the decency to reach out to our client to hear his own side before publishing such malicious, self-serving contents all over the internet, just create content and cheap popularity having known that our client as a pastor may not response to him on social.
“For the record, we wish to straighten out the facts, which the impostor has intentionally hidden, twisted, and perverted in other to ruin the goodwill our client has built over the years in life and Ministry.
“It is the instruction and brief of our client that several years ago, early in his pastoral stage, a certain woman came up and alleged that she’s pregnant for our client; being a responsible and a respected young gospel preacher, our client accepted responsibility and decided to marry the lady in question. Shortly after that, the lady began to live a life unbecoming of a preacher’s wife, and unfortunately, she took in the second time. Our client continued to shoulder the responsibility as the father in the pursuit of peace and unbroken home.
“In the course of life, unfortunate ordeals befall our client, who was kidnapped and kept away for about 50 days or so. At that time, the kidnappers reached out to the supposed wife of our client for ransom, but she denied knowing our client and at a point, the extended family members of our client, intervened, raised money and gave the supposed wife to secure the release of our client, her husband, unfortunately, the woman diverted the money and made a fool of the kidnappers.
“By divine intervention and mercy, our client was released from his abductors without any help from the supposed wife, despite the larger families’ intervention.
“When our client was released, he had misunderstanding with the supposed wife flowing from her neglect of him whilst he was abducted, and in the heat of argument, our client queried the sincerity of her love for him if she could not stand by him in trying moments. It was in the heat of that argument that the woman uttered a comment to our client thus; “do you even think that children of this marriage are yours,” and having made such assertion earlier, our client, attached weight on the second assertion and demanded for a DNA test.
“Ladies and gentlemen, shockingly, the DNA test returned as negative, a testament that neither the first nor the second child belonged to our client. The certificate of that DNA test is with the impostors’ mother and our client challenges the estranged wife to produce the said certificate or test result.
“Consequently, upon that fact, our client and the impostors’ mother ended the supposed marriage and both severed personal ties following a DNA test that conclusively established that the children in question are not his biological children. The woman left with the children of the marriage.
“Despite this finding, and purely out of compassion and goodwill, our client has continued to provide support toward the children’s education and general welfare, up to the stage of their career in Canada and United Kingdom respectively. A gesture that should not be misrepresented as acknowledgment of paternity.
“Gentlemen of the Press, any assertion suggesting abandonment of a spouse or children by our client is therefore false, misleading, disparaging, cyber bullying and defamatory.
“Let us reiterate here for emphasis purposes that the ongoing public portrayal of Ms. Lilian Okafor and her sibling as our client’s children, as well as the publication of statements alleging abandonment, constitute misrepresentation and libel. Such actions are damaging, misleading, and unacceptable.
“Consequently, we formally demand the following:
- Immediate retraction of all false, defamatory, and misleading statements published online or elsewhere concerning our client, followed by an apology in 2 national dailies, a copy of the apology be sent to the appropriate authorities.
- Cessation and desistance from further presenting or implying any familial relationship with our client.
- Challenging the imposter to avail herself and her sibling for DNA test in the choice health facility in the absence of the prior DNA certificate with the other accounts.
- The Removal of all content that falsely associates him with claims of paternity or abandonment.
TAKE NOTICE that failure to comply with these demands may leave our client with no alternative but to pursue appropriate legal remedies to protect his reputation and integrity.
“This statement is issued to clarify the facts and to prevent further dissemination of falsehoods, a committed to upholding truth, dignity, and fairness.”
Oil prices are expected to go down now with the announcement of Donald Trump, US President that he will no longer impose a 20 percent “safe passage” fee on ships passing through the Strait of Hormuz.
The POTUS, hinged his reversal of the decision on the intervention from some Gulf countries, who pleaded with him not to toe the line due to the massive economic impact the decision would make on the region.
Indeed, oil prices had shot up immediately Trump announced the new levy on Monday while declaring the US ‘the guardians of the Hormuz strait,’ a measure which he said was to pay for the cost of guarding the volatile area in order keep supply of oil flowing.
Reports said that Gulf allies of the US worked frantically to get Trump on the phone in time to talk him out of the idea altogether, while a flurry of appeals came from Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Qatar.
In response, the POTUS, posting on his Truth Social platform, wrote: “Based on highly productive conversations with Middle East leadership, I have decided to replace the 20% United States Reimbursement Fee with Trade and Investment Deals that the various Gulf States will be making into the United States.”
Trump, who said the investments would be “MASSIVE but, at the same time, extraordinarily good for them, and their future,” added that the deals would see factories, plants, and equipment pour into the US at “Historic levels.”
The Gulf nations have committed to invest trillions of dollars in the US, though it remains unclear how much of that they will actually spend over the next several years.
Meanwhile, the US continues to bomb Iran in what appears to be a resumption of active conflict between both countries, despite an ongoing roadmap to end the conflict.
Reports say operatives of the Osun State Police Command, and those of the Department of State Services (DSS) had tracking the trail of Adeniyi Adeyemi, controversial Director General of the Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council (PFIPC), for weeks, before he was eventually pulled out of his hole on Tuesday.
However, the duo, were said to have pulled back after failing to track him through his mobile phones, which he had reportedly switched off for about two days, making it difficult to locate him, leaving the stage for the members of the Police Intelligence Response Team (PI-RT) led by Moses Lohor, a Chief Superintendent of Police (CSP).
Lohor, said to have previously served as the Commander of the Anti-Kidnapping Squad of Osun State, and reported to have been involved in high-profile security operations and controversies, after taken over fielded his men to pick up signals from their well-oiled signal networks.
Regarded by many Osun residents as one of the key security officers who contributed significantly to the peace and stability enjoyed in Ilesa and other parts of the state during his tenure, he was said to have relied on his contacts before his transfer out of the state, said to have raised concerns from the public about the security situation he would be leaving behind.
His exit from the state was said to be hinged on an incident in 2024, in which he allegedly shot one Iyanda Alowonle, then Chairman of Osun State Motor Transport System, in the stomach at the police station in the state prompting an order for his arrest by then Inspector General of Police (IGP).
His effort was said to have paid off when he successfully tracked down the controversial PFIPC, boss, who was seen on Tuesday evening, in a shot video on social media undergoing interrogation, and eventually handed him over to Ibrahim Gotan, Commissioner of Police in the state.
The PUNCH quoted one of the sources as saying: “The arrest (of Adeyemi) took place on Tuesday morning by the IRT squad, who immediately moved him to Abuja. After he was arrested, he was taken to Ibadan and from there to Abuja.”
“Constructive partnership should never be mistaken for constitutional surrender. Parliament does not prove its independence by manufacturing conflict, nor its relevance by opposing for opposition’s sake,” were the words with which Godswill Akpabio, moved to shoot down a groundswell of allegations against the National Assembly as a lapdog to the Executive.
At the opening of the 2026 National Assembly Open Week in Abuja, Akpabio, Chairman of the National Assembly, insisted on collaboration as the basis of engagement, with checks and balances called when absolutely necessary and relevant.
He added: “Our constitutional duty is to support what advances the national interest, to question what requires scrutiny, and to correct what demands improvement. That is the balance we have sought to maintain, and history, I believe, will judge it fairly. The Senate and House of Representatives have worked with uncommon harmony and mutual respect over the past three years.
“Whether you are with us today, following these proceedings online, listening on radio, watching on television, or gathered beneath a mango tree in a village square, this parliament belongs to you.
“Come closer. Attend our public hearings. Read the laws we make. Question us. Challenge us. Encourage us. Democracy flourishes when citizens remain active participants in the work of self-government. The true measure of parliament is not the height of its walls, but the depth of its people’s confidence.”
Arguing that the assembly’s constitutional duty was to serve Nigerians rather than manufacture conflict with the executive, he maintained it would remain accessible to citizens rather than operate as a closed institution.
His words: “Throughout these responsibilities, the national assembly has worked constructively with President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, GCFR, in pursuit of national progress.”
Relating to the participation of Nigerians in the affairs of the legislature, he said, it would never build walls to keep Nigerians out, adding: “They were built to welcome them in — not merely as spectators of democracy, but as its rightful owners. Parliament belongs not to those elected to sit within it, but to the millions whose hopes and votes brought it into existence.
“Parliament was never built to keep the people out. It was built to bring them in, for democracy flourishes only in the confidence of an informed and engaged citizenry.
“Public confidence is earned not by asking citizens to trust institutions blindly, but by embracing transparency and accountability Parliament should never fear informed criticism. Questions strengthen democracy. Transparency strengthens legitimacy. The more Nigerians understand our work, the stronger our democracy becomes.
“We invite Nigerians not merely to observe us, but to engage with us; not merely to applaud where they agree, but to challenge us where they believe we can do better. A parliament that listens becomes wiser. A democracy that listens becomes stronger.”
Giving further details of the achievements of the 10th NASS, Akpabio, apart from commending it for passing more than 100 bills in its first three years, which he described as unprecedented at this stage of Nigeria’s democratic journey, also pointed to other feats.
They included the enactment of the laws to strengthen national security, return out-of-school children to classrooms, modernise the country’s tax system, approve a new national minimum wage, stimulate investment and establish regional development commissions.
Brushing aside the oft-challenged practice of benign approach in the screening and confirmation of public officeholders, Akpabio, former Governor of Akwa Ibom State and former Minister of the Niger Delta, said such tasks had always been met with the seriousness required by the constitution.
He also showcased how the assembly aided Nigeria to regain a seat on the executive committee of the Inter-Parliamentary Union after nearly six decades, describing the feat as a sign of renewed international confidence in the country’s democratic institutions.
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