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| Ese Walter |
When the scandal broke, not a few
members of COZA were taken aback by such a dirty allegation and while some
believe the story was not a tale by the moonlight, others are insisting that
‘Pastor Biodun Fatoyinbo is too holy to be involved in such a dirty thing,’ but
some commentators are insisting that the events of coming days and months would
surely reveal the whole truth behind the scandal.
However, while Ese is insisting on
her claims that Pastor Fatoyinbo seduced her and had canal knowledge of her for
one week, the man at the centre of the controversy, vehemently denied the
allegation. But the discerning minds saw the development as another scandal
from the altar that will take a long time to erase and that if it turns out to
be true, then Fatoyinbo has desecrated the office of a cleric.
Painting graphic details of their
sexcapades in her widely publicized confession, Ese had revealed that she met
Pastor Biodun Fatoyinbo many years ago, when she was getting bored of the
church she was attending and someone suggested COZA to her.
“At the time, I had never heard
about it. My friend said, go there, I’m sure you would enjoy the word. But he
also gave me a strong warning. He said he would advice that I remain a member
only and not join the workforce. I agreed. The first time I attended COZA, I
felt it was my church and decided I was going to plant my ass there. About
eleven months had gone by and I was still attending the services quietly and
faithfully. I really did like the church. One day a worker in the church
approached me that the senior pastor wanted to see me.”
That began the close relationship
that existed between Ese and Pastor Fatoyinbo as she was encouraged to join the
workforce of the church against her wish.
She revealed that she initially
declined the invitation to be part of the workers of the church, but that the
pastor urged her to join a department, preferably the Pastoral Care Unit (PCU).
“A few weeks later, against my
friend’s advice not to join the workforce, I was a PCU member. All of a sudden,
I had some status in church. I was ‘somebody.’ Dress had to be on point, hair,
shoes and what not… As workers, we were literally trying to outshine each other
or so it seemed. Anyway, I felt like I was a privileged member of an elite
circle. Hehehe. (It did feel good though, for the most part.)”
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| Ese Walter |
A year after joining the workers in
the church, Ese traveled to London for a Masters Degree program that would last
two years.
She said that Pastor Fatoyinbo asked
her to keep in touch by sending him her number and e-mail, when she settled in
London, when he was intimated of the idea. ‘So he makes “sure I continue in the
faith” because according to him, people lose their faith when they leave home
and he wanted to make sure I didn’t. So, on that note, as soon as I got a phone
line in London, I was sure to call ‘my pastor’ to say I arrived safe, had
settled in and also gave my phone number,” she said.
The journey to their alleged
sexcapade began, when Pastor Biodun Fatoyinbo called her one evening that he
was coming to London and needed her to help him make some hotel bookings as the
person who was meant to do it couldn’t get it done.
Ese revealed in her confession that
‘this was rather strange as I had never been involved in his travel itinerary).
Later that day, he said it had been sorted and my help would not be required
but that he would like me to arrange a cab to pick him up from Heathrow. I was
happy to help my pastor from Nigeria and even saw it as a privilege. (I would
later come to learn that all of this was a calculated attempt to hatch a plan
that I suspect was set in motion when I was asked to join the workforce.)”
She revealed further that the cab
guy was there to get him the next day and when he arrived, he called to ask why
she didn’t accompany the cab to pick him up. “Again, this was strange but I
stopped my mind from overanalyzing the situation as I knew I had no business
with his visit to London.
“About two hours later, he called me
and said he would like to see me. When I arrived his hotel, I called from the
reception, but he asked that I come upstairs. I got to the room and tried to
stop my mind from thinking why I was going to his room. As he opened the door
and invited me in, I had to speak to my heart to stop its palpitations. My
better judgment asked me not to go into the room but the kind of reverence I
had for Pastor Biodun Fatoyinbo bordered on fear and stepped into that room,”
she said.
Ese maintained that Pastor Fatoyinbo encouraged her to demand for whatever
drink she wanted at the hotel even if it was alcoholic drink, which she said
got to her as a rude shock.
According to her, the pastor then proceeded
to ask how she had been coping in London and if she was a committed member of
any church.
“He also said he thought there was
something special about me and wanted to know that I had not strayed from my
faith. I really thought he had heard I was doing something I shouldn’t while in
London, but tried my best to focus on the conversation instead of my straying
thoughts. He kept telling me to relax and feel comfortable with talking to him.
After a few minutes, he asked that we go to the roof of the hotel as his room
was a pent suite and had a connecting door to the roof.
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| Pastor Biodun Fatoyinbo & Wife |
“While there, he sat on a reclining
chair and asked me to come sit on his laps. This was a bit awkward for me and I
froze for a moment as I asked why. He said he had told me to feel free with him
and loosen up. I found myself strolling to sit on his laps. At that moment, I
felt like a little girl who was experiencing something her mind couldn’t
fathom. He asked me to kiss him and all I could think about was seeing him
preach on the pulpit back in COZA Abuja, Nigeria, which was my home church. He
again said ‘feel free Ese.’ And asked again, that I kiss him.
“A few hours later, let’s just say,
we were rolling under the sheets. It felt as though my mind had paused. I am
not saying I was jazzed, (although it’s possible I was in some trancelike state
and didn’t know it but I just was so afraid that I couldn’t say or think
otherwise.) That was the beginning of this affair. A sexual affair that went on
for a little over a week, DAILY!” she said.
The lady wondered how Fatoyinbo, who
preached against drinking in pubs, fornicating, committing adultery was the
same person endorsing and encouraging it.
“At some point, I got really
confused about what Pastor Biodun Fatoyinbo and I were doing that I had to ask
how he handles it. I will never forget what he said to me. He said and I quote,
“I will teach you a level of grace that you don’t understand.” My mind couldn’t
fathom that somehow grace was enough covering for not just
fornication on my path, adultery on his path and the many lies that was bound
to follow what we were doing that was clearly abominable. I somehow dealt with
the thoughts and fears that followed on my path. He had said to me that he
wanted me to be his girlfriend and he would take me around the world and spoil
me with money and things. Somehow, money had never been one of the things that
motivated me (I am from a home where all my needs have been adequately met). In
all my ‘badness’ through finding myself, I never did things I did for money but
more of rebellion against rules and authority.”
One thing that bothers Ese was, when Pastor Fatoyinbo told her that he had a
dream where she exposed what was happening to the media.
“He said it was all over the place
and that people were calling me the girl that caused chaos in COZA. He also
said I should remember the bible said to “touch not God’s
anointed.” I immediately started to rebuke the devil and said I could
never do anything like that. I was almost swearing with my entire family as I
thought really I had touched God’s anointed by submitting my body to be used.
Little did I know at the time that all of these were ways to mess with my mind
and even manipulate my thoughts,” she revealed further in the confession.
The young lady later came back to
Nigeria, but she was uncomfortable in the church as guilty conscience affected
her anytime she sat in the church and listened to Pastor Biodun preach as she
felt shame.
Ese, according to her revelation,
later confided in her then good friend, Ernest Akale but unfortunately for her
Mr. Ernest did not have the capacity to hold what she told him.
He reportedly broke down completely
the days that followed and Ese found herself having to pause how she was
feeling and what was she struggling with to help her friend be strong.
“After a while, he withdrew from not
just me, but his then fiancé and friends. I had to then tell the fiancé what
had caused it (she suspected we were having an affair so I had to clear the
air). To my surprise, she was a lot stronger than her man and told me to suck
it up (I’m paraphrasing). She said if she were me, she wouldn’t leave the
church but stay to torment Pastor Biodun and collect money from him. Ok! That
sounded extreme for me as my intention was not to blackmail but to heal my
broken self. Anyway, I finally found the courage to speak to my then unit head
who said he was going to talk to Pastor Biodun, but didn’t have the liver to do
so. Before long, the story was spreading and naturally getting twisted,” she
emphasized.
The lady said she later left COZA,
but that she broke down in the service in her new church and started crying
uncontrollably as she couldn’t take another mention of COZA and the pictures it
painted in her head.
The incident, she said, affected her faith such that she wasn’t sure she
understood what it meant when people said ‘Jesus saves” and definitely wasn’t
sure how to deal with the mental torture that was affecting not just her, but her
relationships with family and friends.
Sources close to Pastor Biodun
Fatoyinbo revealed that he told those close to him that God has not told him to
react to the matter.
A twist was however introduced into the story, when another lady revealed that Pastor Biodun Fatoyinbo nearly slept with her if she had not played a fast one on him, ‘when the man had the opportunity.’
She revealed that she was introduced to the church in Abuja by her childhood friend, who moved to Abuja from Calabar two years before she did.
“When I joined,
she was also a PCU worker. I really felt welcome in the church up until my
friend started having problems with other women. She told me it was because
Pastor Biodun trusted her with so many official things even above workers that
were there before her. I believed her until the day she had a misunderstanding
with another worker who called her ‘Ashewo Mary Magdalene’ in the church. After
that, her enthusiasm for church started waning while mine was getting stronger
till the day she told me she was leaving the church and shortly after she left,”
she said.
The lady alleged
that Pastor Biodun later developed an interest in counseling her and then
started telling her to take her friend’s place as a PCU worker, but that she
was reluctant because she didn’t feel like going to church early and leaving
late, ‘but Pastor Biodun assured me that his personal driver will pick me and
drop me off and so I agreed. I started work as arranged, but after a while, I noticed
that the pastor did not respect personal space when talking to me when we were
alone.’
She explained that
Pastor Fatoyinbo would stand so close and rub her upper arms or back, which made her very uncomfortable.
“The final straw
was when he said I should go with him to Lagos to take notes and transfer same
online immediately for some Pentecostal thing he was attending and he knew I
was very computer literate. I was excited till we reached Lagos and I realized
that only one room was booked at the Wheatbaker Hotel, Ikoyi,” she said.
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| Pastor Biodun Fatoyinbo |
The woman stated
that she complained and the Pastor called the front desk ( or pretended to) to
demand for another room.
According to her,
the pastor told her that they would call back when the room was ready. He then
allegedly told the lady to help massage his back because he had backache from
sitting on the flight.
She added: “I said
I was tired since it was already after 8pm. He then insisted I lay down on the
bed to rest while waiting. I said I preferred to sit at the desk and he laughed,
saying that I was acting like a small girl or a village uneducated girl.
“He then went in
to take a shower. I then called the front desk to remind them about the extra
room. I wasn’t surprised when I was told that they had vacant rooms and that
nobody had requested for an extra room. By this time, I knew what was up and
was ready for the fool. I opened his pouch and saw his wallet which had his
license, took a picture of the wallet and the license on the pillow on the bed
with my head in the shot. I opened the door and took several pictures of
myself, the wallet and the License with the room number. Came back in, once I
heard the shower stop, I started audio recording on my BB. “He came out with a
towel around his waist and started telling me how attracted he was to me. He
said many derogatory things about his wife, calling her a postcard…pretty on
the outside but flat and empty upstairs. He said sex with her was like having
sex with a cold dead fish…he tried to kiss me and I stood up, picked up my
traveling bag, moved to the door, opened it and quickly took a picture of him,
standing with a towel around him. He started begging. I called him all sorts of
names and insisted he give me money for a separate room or I would
scream ‘rape’. To cut a long story short, he asked me to shut the door, I
refused, he brought out 2 bundles of N1000 and asked me to delete before he
gives me the money.”
The woman revealed that she told Pastor Fatoyinbo that she was in no position
to negotiate, got the money, ‘left the Randy goat with a deflated erection and
checked into another room. First thing the next morning, I left for Abuja.’
The lady added
that her friend, who introduced her to COZA, later confessed that she slept
with Pastor Abiodun for over a year, even on his marital bed, when his wife
traveled, and she challenged Pastor Bidoun to deny her story publicly as she
reportedly said she still has pictures and their conversation on tape.
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