INTERVIEWS

I didn’t know I was embarrassing and disrespecting a real man of God.” – Maria Chike Benjamin

May 7, 2023

“So the thing is, there was a rumor (that I was dating Apostle Johnson Suleman, and you know like, some blogs put out stuff there with no evidence or no anything and it kinda tarnishes people’s images or what you’re working on. It derails you from the image you’re trying to portray, whether it’s the real you or not. So you know, the whole rumor about – this was months back and I paid it no attention and I don’t need to explain to people every rumor they bring out about me. I don’t owe anyone. If you want to believe it, then that’s fine. I don’t actually do that and I don’t care.

“So it’s just so funny to me, my mum had left for the airport that evening. I took her to the airport and was stuck in traffic on my way back and I was just bored on Twitter and it was so funny to me, it was really funny. Looking back now, it’s nothing funny. So I didn’t know there were two Apostles. And this is my ignorance and silliness I am aware of now and I’m really deeply sorry. So I thought it was the ‘claimed’ person that they said I had something to do with so in my head I was like, ‘well if he’s the one it’d be really funny.’ Like we don’t know each other so ‘Hi, nice to meet you’. that was how I thought it was going to go in my head and I really thought people would find it funny, but no I was actually embarrassing and disrespecting a real man of God.”