The Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria, PFN, on Thursday said
the embattled Senior Pastor of the Commonwealth of Zion Assembly, COZA, Biodun
Fatoyinbo refused to appear before its panel investigating the rape allegation
against him.
Busola Dakolo had accused Fatoyinbo of raping her 20 years
ago in Ilorin, Kwara State when she was still 16 years old.
The PFN said because he refused to appear before the panel,
the probe had been declared inconclusive.
According to PFN National Publicity Secretary, Bishop Emma
Isong, who spoke with newsmen in Lagos on Thursday, Busola and her husband,
Timi Dakolo appeared before the panel while Fatoyinbo did not.
Recall that wife of sensational soul singer Timi Dakolo,
made a shocking revelation in a detailed interview with Chude Jideonwo, a
lawyer and journalist on YNaija channel of how the Abuja-based cleric raped her
as a teenager.
The viral video report has set social media and other online
platforms on fire, evoking shock, backlash and criticism from Nigerians, especially
the Christian community.
However, in his reaction, the embattled preacher posted a
statement on his IG page @biodunfatoyinbo denying the allegation, adding that
he had never raped a woman all his life.
In the statement addressed from the ‘Office of the Senior
Pastor’, Fatoyinbo described the allegation as false and baseless claim
targeted at destroying his reputation and that of his church.
“I have never in my life raped anybody even as an unbeliever
and I am absolutely innocent of this”, the statement reads in part.
In 2013, the clergy popularly called “Gucci Pastor”, because
of his flamboyant fashion style, was also entangled in an allegation of
infidelity with one Ese Walter, a former member of the church. (NAN)
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