SEX ASSAULT CLAIMS: Inside explosive allegations threatening to embroil MFM General Overseer Daniel Olukoya

Legalfield Partners, a Lagos-based law firm, has issued a seven-day pre-action notice to Aminat Joy Igene Mustapha, demanding a full retraction and apology over a series of highly controversial and allegedly defamatory sexual misconduct allegations leveled against MFM General Overseer Dr. Daniel Olukoya.

A prominent Lagos-based law firm, Legalfield Partners, has issued a comprehensive pre-action memorandum of claim demanding an unreserved public apology, a total retraction, and the absolute deletion of highly controversial online publications targeted at the General Overseer of the Mountain of Fire and Miracles Ministries (MFM), Dr. Daniel Kolawole Olukoya. In a formal legal notice dated Monday, May 25, 2026, and signed by lead counsel Jude Ehiedu, the church’s legal representatives officially initiated the process in strict compliance with the High Court of Lagos State Civil Procedure Rules. The document explicitly characterizes a months-long barrage of internet broadcasts, written articles, and video releases as entirely false, malicious, and recklessly engineered to inflict reputational ruin.

The legal team traced the genesis of the brewing court battle back to an internal church charity initiative, revealing that the controversy began after the ministry extended vital housing and welfare accommodations to the respondent, identified as Aminat Joy Igene Mustapha, during a severe period of personal and domestic crisis. MFM authorities allege that after Mustapha became intensely dissatisfied with subsequent administrative decisions made by the church’s leadership, she launched a deliberate, multi-platform campaign across Facebook, Instagram, independent blogs, and messaging applications. Running continuously since November 2025, the digital publications featured specific, highly damaging first-person accounts, with the respondent explicitly stating: “I was sexually assaulted, depressed, traumatized. I was silenced…the day I went one-on-one to meet Daniel Olukoya was the day I regretted in my life… In 2018 when I left MFM, I tendered my resignation letter because of your boss…because I didn’t give him the kind of access he wanted to have with me.”

Beyond the direct allegations of inappropriate sexual advances, the pre-action notice heavily details broader institutional attacks launched by Mustapha against the core integrity of the pentecostal ministry. The respondent stands accused of publicly alleging that Dr. Olukoya engages in corrupt, fraudulent matchmaking, pairing selected female members with wealthy diaspora donors as a transactional reward for financial generosity. Furthermore, the law firm highlighted deeply offensive spiritual claims broadcasted by the respondent, including statements asserting that any pastor absent during praise and worship services is actively conducting backstage sexual ritual activities—vaguely drawing parallels by stating, “TB Joshua did it. Daniel Olukoya still does it,” while warning the public that the MFM leader routinely bribes defense lawyers to compromise evidence in defamation cases.

Legalfield Partners maintained that in their ordinary and natural meaning, the respondent’s words maliciously portray Dr. Olukoya as a sexually immoral predator, a manipulative extortionist, and an individual wholly unfit to lead a global religious community. Arguing that the persistent allegations amount to actionable libel and injurious falsehood, the legal team has issued a strict seven-day ultimatum. Mustapha is legally mandated to pull down all offensive digital materials, completely retract the claims, and publish an unreserved apology in at least two major Nigerian national newspapers. The pre-action warning concludes with an absolute litigation promise: “Take notice that should you fail, refuse or neglect to comply within the stipulated time, our clients shall institute legal proceedings against you without further notice,” seeking massive monetary damages for severe psychological trauma and organizational injury.

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