The founder of Salvation Proclaimers Anointed Church (SPAC Nation), Pastor Tobi Adegboyega, is facing allegations of fraud with claims that he is set to be deported to Nigeria.
But the preacher whom many have described as flamboyant said his ordeal with the UK authorities was orchestrated.
The Nigerian pastor said the persecution started after a member of parliament (MP) from his district alleged that he was advocating against the gay community.
“Our problem is politically motivated; the police have not invited anybody… my records in the UK are clean; no fear of deportation
“We had a situation where people believed that I was supporting a certain political party”, he said when he appeared as a guest on Channels Television’s Politics Today on Monday.
“The person wrote that my evangelical zeal was to make sure that the gay community in that area does not survive.
“He took dossiers of evidence against the church to the sacred ground of the parliament and submitted it to the internal affairs minister, who submitted it to the police, and the police came back to say that they couldn’t even investigate one thing because it was all nonsensical.
“The person is an MP, and the same person is sitting behind these things, making sure that he is not defeated.
“If there is any honour left in his system, what such men should do is apologise unless you’re saying the police authority of Great Britain is inept, which would be quite unfortunate”.
He said the “police have not invited anybody” and maintained that “my records in the UK are clean”.
