Lawyer: Church won’t tolerate bad trends
Chief Legal Adviser Worldwide of Mountain of Fire and Miracles Ministries (MFM), Mr. Davidson Adejuwon, has said the church will not tolerate individuals or groups tarnishing image of the church or its leadership.
A United States-based court in Baltimore County, presided over by Theresa Adams, fined a Nigerian blogger, Funke Asekun, $50,000 damages for defaming General Overseer of MFM, Dr. Daniel Olukoya.
Reacting to the judgment, Adejuwon, a lawyer, urged the public and the media to do proper checks against any form of falsehood before publishing their stories.
“Mountain of Fire and Miracles Ministries is not just any church. It is an Apostolic Revival Church of Christ with a great end-time mandate divinely committed into the hand of a prepared prophet and servant of God, Dr. D. K. Olukoya, the General Overseer of the Ministry worldwide,” he said.
“There is no way you deliberately and devilishly collide with such and not be grounded.
“I implore the public and the media to do proper checks before publishing stories or sharing lies and falsehoods against the church…We will not fold our arms anymore on such unacceptable trends in our society.”
Three US-based MFM pastors had filed a lawsuit against the Nigerian blogger, who recently relocated to America, after she made a defamatory statement, about the General Overseer of the church in a video posted to her YouTube channel on November 28, 2023,
The court delivered its judgment in the matter with Case Number: C-03-CV-22-004424 and returned a unified verdict in favour of MFM USA and its three pastors, Grace Ugeh, Kunle Ladipo and Adekunle Adekola.
Prior to the court case, the church claimed Asekun has been spreading all manners of erroneous and fallacious statement on social media against the MFM Church and its General Overseer, thereby tarnishing and damaging the image and the reputation of the respected man of God and that of his ministry.
