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As lawyers for Reno Omokri, a bestselling author and former Presidential spokesman, we are happy to report that the the remand order by Pastor Paul Enenche against our client, has been vacated by the same court which ordered it .
In an Appeal filed at the FCT High Court, with Appeal No. CRA/2/2025 by Osa Director and Co, lawyers to Mr. Omokri it asked for a stay of execution of the remand order granted by the Magistrate court. Consequently, when the matter came up for hearing on 30th January, 2025, the presiding Chief Magistrate, Chief Emmanuel Iyanna ordered the removal of Omokri’s name from the FIR.
However , we must say that it is extremely unchristian and beneath the character of a pastor to secretly instigate a remand order at a lower court, such as a magistrate court, without even putting Mr. Reno Omokri on notice. Mr. Omokri read about the order on a gossip blog.
And it is the strong opinion of our client that what Mr. Enenche is complaining about (that both Pastor Paul and Becky Enenche) are “irresponsible and mercantile pastors” is justified for the following reasons.
According to Omokri ,”the Body of Christ in Nigeria would not tolerate what Pastor Paul Enenche of Dunamis International Gospel Centre did during the #NigerianElections2023 if an Islamic imam with a sizeable congregation had done it.”
In the opinion of Mr. Omokri, Pastor Enenche is a highly irresponsible individual for surrendering his pulpit to Peter Obi as a campaigning tool and ferrying him from church to church as he went about proclaiming the Gospel of ‘Church take back your country’.
“If you are a Christian reading this, sit back and ask yourself how you would feel if a Muslim Presidential candidate went to a mosque and said, ‘Muslim Ummah, take back your country!’
Paul Enenche, standing on the pulpit at Dunamis church told his congregation to call their friends and relatives and “tell them what to vote. Tell them in clean, clear, language. Both the picture, the image, the logo, what to vote. The violent taketh it by force. Clearly”.
Omokri observed that what Pastor Enenche did was not just unethical it goes against the registration restrictions of his church, which is registered with the CAC for spreading the Gospel, not for campaigning for a political party.
It also goes against the Electoral Act, when you take into account case law that says by virtue of the Theory of Coercive Influence, and the Theory of Psychological Influence, it is an improper use of ecclesiastical authority as a cleric to interfere with people’s choices in an election.
And then on Sunday, January 29, 2023, Pastor Enenche again attacked the candidate of the All Progressives Congress, on the pulpit and said “There are some whose names nobody is sure. Date of birth, nobody is sure. Source of money, nobody is sure. State of health, nobody is sure. Level of sanity and reasoning capacity, nobody is sure. Schools attended, nobody is sure. And yet they are being marketed and advertised to lead the nation to a destination nobody is sure’.
Mr. Enenche’s behaviour is not supported by Scripture. It is also capable of disturbing the peace and creating religious strife in a multiethnic and religiously heterogeneous society like Nigeria, and if he had done what he did in the US or UK, both his licence to preach and his tax-exempt status would have been revoked.
By virtue of the Companies Income Tax Act, Pastor Paul Enenche’s Dunamis International Gospel Centre enjoys tax exempt status as long as it restricts itself to “ecclesiastical, charitable, or educational activities of a public character”.
By engaging in open and partisan political campaigning while on the pulpit, Pastor Enenche violated that provision, and the Body of Christ would not tolerate that coming from a major Muslim cleric.
Mr. Reno Omokri ready to meet with Enenche in court if he chose to continue with the matter.
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