Fuji star, Wasiu Alabi Pasuma has reacted to the suspension of a
Redeemed Church Pastor, Toyin Ogundipe who was said to have paid him to
perform at a crusade slated to hold in one of the parishes in Lagos
Island.
The Fuji star declared that, although, the church’s management
paid for the show, it is never done to expect him to pay back the
“artiste fee” saying, “the fault is not ours, we were ready to perform
for them until we learnt of the cancellation of the crusade”.
City
People reports that,the Pastor in charge of Province 20 of the Redeemed
Church had invited Pasuma to perform at the Church’s forthcoming
crusade titled, “Lagos Island Family Areas Forum” between Friday,
October 23rd- Sunday 25th, 2015.
Pasuma’s picture appeared on the
handbill advert and posters alongside gospel singer, Tope Alabi and a
former band leader of the late Fela Anikulapo’s Egypt 80 band, Kereke
Jike.
The decision to stop the programme was because the church
headquarters felt the Pastor had gone too far by inviting a secular
artiste such as Pasuma to its church programme.
A source who
spoke on condition of anonymity said the organisers did not do a
detailed consultation before going ahead with the programme. He also
said that it was as a result of it that the programme was cancelled and
the Pastor in charge of the church along with the organising committee
suspended as they now await further sanction from the provisional
headquarters for dragging the name of the church in the mud