Entertainment: Chris Okafor Withdraws Apology To Actress Doris Ogala, Says He Was Under Pressure
Chris Okafor, founder of Mountain of Liberty and Miracle Ministry, has withdrawn his earlier public apology to actress Doris Ogala, who had accused him of being in a seven-year secret relationship with her.
Speaking during a recent church service, Okafor said the apology was made under pressure from people he described as friends.
According to him, he initially resisted issuing an apology because he believed it would be interpreted as an admission of wrongdoing.
“You lose a fight to win a war. I was under immense pressure from certain people around me, saying I should do different things. I said that what I am being asked to do is like accepting what I did not do,” he said.
Okafor further clarified that his apology was not directed at Ogala but was meant to protect respected church leaders from being dragged into the controversy.
“Firstly, the reason why I apologised was that the fathers of faith were being dragged, and I did not want them to be dragged, Pastor Matthew and Bishop Abioye,” he said.
“There is no single apology to that person. There is no apology for what I did not do or for someone I have not met face to face. I knelt down because of those fathers, not because of any Jezebel anywhere.”
The cleric said he is now relying on the legal process to resolve the dispute.
“We have chosen the right course, and the right course will prevail,” he added.
The controversy began last year after a video of Okafor’s engagement to Pearl Okafor surfaced online.
Ogala subsequently alleged that she had been in a romantic relationship with the pastor since 2017. She claimed she ended her previous marriage at his urging and accused him of betraying her after years of intimacy and promises of marriage.
The actress later issued an ultimatum, demanding that Okafor either marry her or pay her N1 billion in damages for an alleged breach of promise.
Despite the dispute, Okafor proceeded with his marriage to Pearl in both traditional and white wedding ceremonies.
Days after the controversy escalated, the cleric publicly knelt and apologised, acknowledging aspects of Ogala’s claims about their past relationship, before now retracting that apology.
