Beleaguered Nigerian singer, Stephanie Otobo has been granted bail amidst a stunning charge of terrorism and others.
Apostle Johnson Suleman and Stephanie Otobo
According to new developments in the case between Apostle Johnson Suleman and Canada-based Nigerian singer, Miss Stephanie Otobo, the alleged mistress has released photos of their private video chats after the court denied the prosecution’s wish for her to be denied bail.
The court’s decision was premised on the principle that it is a case between two Nigerians and it did not matter if one of the parties was a man of God.
The presiding judge, Justice Kikelomo Bukola Ayeye, therefore ruled that there is no substantial evidence to deny Ms Otobo her fundamental right to freedom, and hence granted her bail on liberal terms.
Miss Otobo and her alleged accomplice were therefore granted bail on conditions that she deposit a sum of N100,000, with two sureties in like sum who must be gainfully employed.
Attached to the application for remand was a four-count charge of terrorism, blackmail, and extortion, including threatening “an act of terrorism, demanding property with menace with intent to steal and attempt to extort money,” at the Police College in Ikeja, Lagos on February 14.
Particularly, the second count holds that Wisdom and Stephanie “with intent to blackmail a man of God, did unlawfully demand the immediate payment of the sum of $1,000,000 (one million US dollars) to (them) by Apostle Suleiman,…else (they) will call a conference and accuse him out for committing adultery …and having an illicit relationship with her (Stephanie).”
Upon regaining her freedom, Ms Otobo granted the short video interview which we reported in our earlier report yesterday, dispelling other reports of a purported earlier statement where she supposedly cleared the man of God under duress.
As details of her video reveal, she stands with her story of being used and dumped by Apostle Suleman, as well as his alleged used of the police to intimidate her.