Just
when the new couple was settling to a new life, a certain Remi Odutola emerged
from the blues alleging that she has a 9-year-old girl for the man of god.
While her assertions beggar belief, the tall and delicately slim lady averred
that she’s Reverend Chris’ secret wife. Hear her, “My name is Aderemi Odutola,
a granddaughter of Ogbeni Oja of Ijebu-Ode. I met Reverend Christopher Okotie
in 1997. I was a young Pastor desperately looking for a good church where I
could worship and God led me to the Household Of God. Then, I had a music
ministry, and because he was an ace musician, I took him as my mentor and
strongly believed that he would help me one day. Along the line, something
happened. We started seeing each other and I’ve done abortion for him three
times before I decided to leave the last one”.
Why
did she leave the last pregnancy and why is she coming out nine years after? ‘I
left the pregnancy not for anything, but for the fact that he proposed to marry
me’, she said, as tears welled up in her eyes. “Initially, I didn’t accept his
proposal because of his wife, Tina. I couldn’t have married a married man. But
he told me that his marriage to Tina was on the brink of collapse. He lied to
me! Trouble, however, started immediately I got pregnant. He started behaving
funny, unlike the amiable Pastor I met sometime back. At times, I would call
him, but he wouldn’t pick or return my calls,” she said with a soft chuckle
that betrayed a mien of good breeding and humility.
Her
expression soon dissolved into a sad look when she recalled the moment she gave
birth. ‘It dawned on me when I gave birth to our daughter that he was just a
player. Ever since I gave birth to Tioluwani Okotie (our daughter), Reverend
Chris has abandoned us in my family house in Opebi. It has not been easy at all
taking care of our daughter all alone,” she said and opened a whirlpool of
tears.
Does
he send money for the child’s up-keep? “Money”? Remi said questioningly. She
said further, “Whenever I call him that his daughter needs something, he will
be dribbling me, giving me one excuse or the other. I was highly disappointed
when I heard he eventually married Stephanie Henshaw, his late friend’s wife.
He
did not marry me with all the things I have been through because of him.” We
visited the church and some church members who do not want their names to be
mentioned, confirmed that they have seen the little girl who shares a striking
resemblance with the Pastor. We further gathered that even at the children’s
church, people always gather to look at the girl and unconsciously wonder aloud
if she is for Reverend Chris or not.
We tried to confirm
this story from this abundantly brilliant man of God to confirm the veracity of
the story, but all efforts to reach him proved abortive.
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