Pastor Modele Fatoyinbo, wife of the global senior pastor of the Commonwealth of Zion Assembly (COZA), on Sunday, ministering at the church service described the rape allegation against her husband as false. “I have never in my life raped anybody even as an unbeliever and I am absolutely innocent of this,” Pastor Fatoyinbo said in a statement posted to his Instagram page. Dakolo, mother of three had, on Friday morning made a shocking revelation in a detailed interview with Chude Jideonwo, a lawyer and journalist on YNaija channel of how Pastor Biodun Fatoyinbo raped her as a teenager. “I have never in my life raped anybody even as an unbeliever and I am absolutely innocent of this.” the statement reads in part. But on Sunday morning, people in different groups were mobilised to the the COZA church in Abuja and its Lagos branch to protest the rape allegation, chanting songs and carrying placards with different inscriptions calling for the arrest and prosecution of the embattled pastor.

Source: Nigerian Tribune June 30, 2019 12:17 UTC