A Senior Advocate of Nigeria, (SAN) Festus Keyamo has withdrawn as counsel to Stephanie Otobo, the Canada-based musician, in the Otobo, Apostle Suleiman’s controversial sex scandal.
It would be recalled that the singer had alleged that Apostle Johnson Suleman, founder of Auchi, Edo state-based Omega Fire Ministries, was her secret lover who promised her marriage and later breached the promise.
The saga which broke in March last year saw Apostle Suleiman suing Otobo and an online medium, one billion Naira each, at the Ikeja high court in Lagos, Nigeria.
But 10 month after the controversial scandal broke, the singer in a viral video during Apostle Suleiman’s monthly Fire Night programme (an all night vigil programme) on January 26th, publicly said she was used by “some powerful politicians and men of God” to blackmail Apostle Suleiman.
She had in the video, knelt down before the wife of Apostle Suleman pleading for forgiveness.
But the singer in another viral video countered another released video allegedly recorded by her in July 2017, after her public confession saying she was being put under pressure by Apostle Suleiman to confess.
Reacting to the Otobo, Apostle Suleman’s controversy, a legal practitioner, Barrister Moses Undogwe said, “The whole thing appears more like a well orchestrated blackmail, calculated to inflict injury on the accused. The most disgusting aspect of it all is the online video clips. It is a case of blackmail.”
However, when newsmen contacted Mr. Festus Keyamo Chambers for confirmation, one of his senior lawyers, Mr. Festus Afeiyadion, said, based on the videos their client, Stephanie Otobo, has released without informing them(Festus Keyamo Chambers), that they have hands-off the case.