Just when the new
couple was settling to a new life, a certain Remi Odutola emerged from
the blues alleging that she has a 9-year-old girl for the man of God.
While her assertions beggar belief, the tall and delicately slim lady
averred that she’s Reverend Chris’ secret wife.
Hear her, “My
name is Aderemi Odutola, a granddaughter of Ogbeni Oja of Ijebu-Ode.
I met Reverend Christopher Okotie in 1997. I was a young Pastor
desperately looking for a good church where I could worship and God led
me to the Household Of God.
Then, I had a
music ministry, and because he was an ace musician, I took him as my
mentor and strongly believed that he would help me one day. Along the
line, something happened. We started seeing each other and I’ve done
abortion for him three times before I decided to leave the last one”.
Why did she
leave the last pregnancy and why is she coming out nine years after? ‘I
left the pregnancy not for anything, but for the fact that he proposed
to marry me’, she said, as tears welled up in her eyes. “Initially, I
didn’t accept his proposal because of his wife, Tina. I couldn’t have
married a married man.
But he told me
that his marriage to Tina was on the brink of collapse. He lied to me!
Trouble, however, started immediately I got pregnant. He started
behaving funny, unlike the amiable Pastor I met sometime back. At times,
I would call him, but he wouldn’t pick or return my calls,” she said
with a soft chuckle that betrayed a mien of good breeding and humility.
Her expression
soon dissolved into a sad look when she recalled the moment she gave
birth. ‘It dawned on me when I gave birth to our daughter that he was
just a player. Ever since I gave birth to Tioluwani Okotie (our
daughter), Reverend Chris has abandoned us in my family house in Opebi.
It has not been easy at all taking care of our daughter all alone,” she
said and opened a whirlpool of tears.
Does he send money for the child’s up-keep? “Money”? Remi said questioningly. She said further, “
Whenever I call him that his daughter needs something, he will be dribbling me, giving me one excuse or the other.
I was highly
disappointed when I heard he eventually married Stephanie Henshaw, his
late friend’s wife.
He did not marry me with all the things I have been through because of
him.” We visited the church and some church members who do not want
their names to be mentioned, confirmed that they have seen the little
girl who shares a striking resemblance with the Pastor.
We further
gathered that even at the children’s church, people always gather to
look at the girl and unconsciously wonder aloud if she is for Reverend
Chris or not.
We tried to confirm this story from this abundantly brilliant man of God
to confirm the veracity of the story, but all efforts to reach him
proved abortive.
source naijapal.com (via today's gist blog)
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