Pastor Bayo Oladeji, media aide of the President of Christian Association of Nigeria Rev Samson Ayokunle, said the image of the Nigerian church has been dented by the rape allegation and the court proceedings.

He said “While we note that the image of the Nigerian Church and its leadership was dented before and during the court proceedings, CAN urges Pastor Fatoyinbo and Mrs Dakolo, to put away all that has transpired and reconcile.  The Church  preaches forgiveness and reconciliation, and that is our position as the umbrella body of Christians in the country. We begrudge neither Pastor Fatoyinbo nor Busola Dakolo, and urge them to extend a similar hand of love and fellowship to each other”.

Pastor Fatoyinbo in a statement released on his behalf by his Senior Executive Assistant Pastor Ademola Adetuberu, dedicated his victory to God and those that stood by him.

“The victory is of the Lord. We dedicate it to those who stand by us. The victory belongs to God not to me or COZA. We will not share in His glory. The enemies are after the Church and not after me per se. They only used me as a scapegoat to launch the attacks. We know that faithful is He who has called us.  I salute the courage and the support of my beautiful and godly wife, my lovely children, members of COZA family and those who stand by us. May God be praised in your life. I bear no grudge against those who were used by the adversary of the Church but instead, I pray for them that we should come together to fight the common enemies of the Church. My soul goes to men who are wrongly accused and women who are or have been abused. May God heal the wounds of everyone of us in Jesus Name”.

According to the activist, Busola and Timi Dakolo received a call last night from their lawyers about the judge’s ruling on the preliminary objection today November 14

Read his posts below;
Update: Busola Dakolo V. Biodun Fatoyinbo. The clerk called the lawyers of Busola Dakolo late last night notifying them of the judge’s ruling on the preliminary objection today. As expected, a mockery of our processes and law was the case as the drama unfolds.
A Nigerian Court that claims twice it cannot find processes on Busola Dakolo vs Biodun Fatiyinbo’s case suddenly calls for ruling on preliminary application and declares that the matter is statute barred and that it cannot address the substance of the matter because…… it happened a long ago. A Court cannot declare a matter statute barred when it has been shown that the legal injury is a continuous one.
The court is duty bound to consider the statement of claim and reliefs sought and where it has been shown that the legal injury is of a continuous nature the court is duty bound to hear it. We know that the struggle to sanitize Nigeria of all these social madness will not come easily
It will even be far more ludicrous if it is announced that the judge went ahead to award damages in Millions to the accused who is still preying on young girls as alleged by survivors being threatened and bribed on the daily to keep mute. What a society! #Shame

Busola in a tell-all interview released in June, accused Fatoyinbo of raping her when she was a teenager attending his church in Ilorin, Kwara state.

The clergyman in August faced questioning by the police at the Force Criminal Investigation Department, Garki Area 10, Abuja, where he was grilled by a team of detectives led by Assistant Commissioner of Police, Adaku Anya.

Pastor Biodun was grilled for eight hours yesterday August 27, by detectives at the Force Criminal Investigation Department Abuja, in connection with the rape allegations levelled against him by Timi Dakolo’s wife, Busola Dakolo.

Fatoyinbo was granted administrative bail around 9pm on Tuesday but is still in police custody as he is yet to meet his bail conditions.

Frank Mba, the police force spokesperson said “He is still with us, but I can’t say if he would be released tonight. It depends on if he meets the bail conditions that would be given to him, but he has been granted administrative bail.”

Apart from Fatoyinbo, two witnesses: Mr. Wole Soetan, pastor of COZA Port Harcourt branch; and Mr. Folarin Ogunsola, who is in charge of COZA Lagos branch, were also grilled by the police detectives

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.

Busola Dakolo had accused Fatoyinbo of raping her 20 years ago in Ilorin, Kwara State when she was still 17 years old leading Fatoyinbo to step down briefly from the alter, but all seems to have returned to normal now.

Mr Femi Falana, made the revelation during a telephone conversation with The PUNCH newspaper.

Falana told Punch that the IG had assured that justice would be done in the matter. He also said the case would be brought to Lagos because the family were the first to petition the police.

This is coming after the police summoned Timi Dakolo and his wife, Busola to Abuja on Tuesday over alleged falsehood, mischief and threat to life and criminal conspiracy.

The first lady reacted to this on her Twitter handle by tweeting “ATTENTION : INSPECTOR GENERAL OF POLICE #SayNoToRape #JusticeForRapeVictims #SayNoToIntimidation,”

The President of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Reverend Samson Ayokunle, has given the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN) two weeks to submit its report on Pastor Biodun Fatoyinbo investigation.

The PFN had constituted a probe panel after the interview Busola granted in which she made the claim that she was raped by the COZA senior pastor.

Reverend Ayokunle said “We have told you without mincing words that we will never support immorality in whatever form, it is alien to the culture of the church, to the teachings of Christ. And there is no pulpit that I know in Nigeria that the members are taught immorality, but we will not condemn until we have reasons to condemn, let the panel come out with the result let’s know what the truth is. I told you in the press release we issued that we have given the right to Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN) because we don’t deal with individual churches, we deal with blocs.

We have directed PFN, an arm of a bloc, which is also large enough to investigate that matter. I am telling you under God that PFN has set up that panel and that panel had been given two weeks within which to submit its report. Not only that, the two individuals involved have been invited by the committee and we are assuring them that nothing will be covered.”

Kizz Daniel’s lawyers have served papers to Vanguard Media Limited. The papers shows his team ask for N100 million in reputation damages caused by the defaming publication, which was about him weighing in on the trending story about Busola Dakolo and COZA founder, Pastor Biodun Fatoyinbo.

Here are the papers