Pastor Fagbire has debunked the news, saying he was conscious. He said that although the town’s herbalist assaulted him with “charms and other fetish materials,” he was “ unharmed” at all. He said God ordered him to stay calm and not utter a word at the shrine
.Read his narration after the incident
through the Nation
Fagbire, a Pastor at the Christ Apostolic Church (CAC) in Ayetoro area, said he entered the shrine, and removed all the fetish items that were kept there and also took a position beside the entrance to it in calmness as instructed by God.
Prince Fagbire, son to the past Alaye of Ayetoro, Oba Taiwo Fagbire, who kicked the bucket in 1981 after his 20year reign in the agrarian community, said his late papa and monarch, used to take him to this shrine occasionally when he was alive.
Narrating his ordeal to The Nation and a handful of reporters, at the Office of the Chairman, Ogun State wing of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Bishop Tunde Akin – Akinsanya, Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital, Fagbire said he decided to “remain calm and mute” during the assault and interrogation at the shrine by the herbalist and some villagers.
Speaking in the midst of over a dozen of Christian leaders from CAN and Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN) in Ogun State, said God ordered him to stay calm and not utter a word at the shrine.
The father to two noted that his not speaking or uttering a word on the site of the shrine had nothing to with his being molested with “charms and fetish materials” by the herbalist as what they did had no physical or spiritual effects on him.
According to him, it was also not true as said in some section of the media that the priests and custodians of the shrine upon the intervention of the Alaye of Ayetoro, Oba Abdulaziz Adelakun, treated him before he could regain his consciousness.
“I was conscious, physically and mentally ok, during and after the incident because God was already by my side. I followed the orders of the LORD to enter the shrine and packed all the items there away. I followed God’s orders to be quiet aa instructed by God.
“God informed me to go there (the shrine), create a scene, step aside and watch the movie (the unfolding events). They struck me with charms and nothing happened to me. They know the truth, nobody healed me and I spoke when I got to the Palace of the Oba,” he said.
It was noted that although the traditionalists demanded N300,000 from a church in the community where Fagbire had once ministered and also N200,000 from the pastor’s family to perform sacrifices to appease the gods for his alleged abomination but nothing was given to them eventually.
The church in the community incurred the wrath of the herbalist and was attacked following the allegation that it instigated Prince Fagbire to carry out the alleged abomination on the shrine.
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