Bishop Feyi Daniels, the founder of ‘I Reign Christian Ministry, was placed on detention by an Ikeja sexual crimes and domestic violence court after he was accused of raping a 25-year-old woman while “speaking in tongues.”
Bishop Feyi Daniels rose to fame in the run-up to the 2023 presidential election when he predicted that Bola Tinubu, the then-candidate for president, would utilise INEC employees to rig the results in his favour.
The clergyman had asserted that Tinubu would be declared the winner of the presidential election despite Peter Obi, the Labour Party’s candidate, being the legitimate victor.
He also noted that there would be an interim administration because, in his opinion, the former governor of Lagos State would not be sworn in as president.
He was earlier remanded for allegedly raping two of his church members at his residence in June 2020.
During the trial, the victim, a member of the bishop’s church, was led in evidence by Babajide Boye, the state lead counsel.
The victim told the court that she heard her cousin listening to the bishops’s sermon on the phone while they were at her sister’s shop in Osogbo on January 2, 2019.
“I told my cousin the sermon was nice and he told me the name of the church which I searched for and followed its page on Facebook,” the victim said.
After that, I was able to chat with Feyi on Facebook and he added me to a WhatsApp group called spiritual sonship group.
The alleged victim said she met the pastor for the first time when she attended a three-day retreat organised by the church in 2019.
She said;
He later had a programme at OAU which I attended and met Brother Isaac, one of his spiritual sons, and we exchanged numbers.
From the sonship group, I took an assistant pastor / first prosecution witness (PW1) (name withheld) to be my prayer partner because, irrespective of our gender, we call ourselves sons.
On the WhatsApp group, Feyi dropped a message that all sons should pick a convenient time to fast for 70 days, pray for two hours and break at 6.00 p.m. daily and come to Lagos for laying of hands after the fasting.
She said the pastor raped her on several occasions, adding that she later got pregnant for him but lost it during an accident on Ilorin-Ibadan road.
Ramon Oshodi, the presiding judge, adjourned the case until May 25 for continuation of trial.
