Woman says her pastor husband tried to sacrifice her for rituals

Patience Ohelimo, a native of Abakaliki, Ebonyi State, has accused her husband, a pastor, of alleged plans to sacrifice her for ritual purposes.Patience, who is currently undergoing treatment at a private home in Ilishan Remo in OgunState, told Vanguard that she was tortured, gang-raped and almost sacrificed for ritual purposesin Port Harcourt, the River State capital, by her husband, Uchenna Joseph, and some unknownpersons.Patience said, “I was a petty trader in Ikorodu town in Lagos before my plans to get married,while my husband was a full-time pastor.“We were to have our wedding introduction in 2014 and were planning for a church weddingwhen I got pregnant, which put the wedding plans on hold.“In the course of our relationship, I expended all my earnings but this was not in vain as I gavebirth to a boy in February 2016.“Three months after, my husband suggested we should visit his friend in Port Harcourt to raisefund for my business. So we left our base in Ogun State and during our three months stay, Ibecame a prophetess and also assisted in evangelism, but on one fateful day, my husbandconspired with his friends to sacrifice me for ritual purposes.“My refusal earned me incarceration as they tortured and gang-raped me. This took place for anumber of days until I reached my sister through a text message and she came to my rescue.“They separated me from my son and were about tying me to the ceiling fan when my sisterarrived the one-room church. My wedding gown and other items were kept for two years as he isyet to complete the dowry,” she lamented, vowing not to return to her cleric husband.“I have spent all my earnings on this marriage which has almost cost me my life and I will neverreturn to that home,” she added.But the cleric, on his part, debunked the allegation by his wife.He described it as a conspiracy and a ploy to get unnecessary attention from members of thepublic as he was yet to complete the required money meant to pay as dowry on his wife.Pastor Uchenna alleged that his wife was both psychologically and emotionally imbalance duringtheir stay in Port Harcourt.He said, “She used to see visions and loved evangelism but one day, she was on evangelism fieldwith my friend’s relative when she was spiritually attacked and she started exhibiting strangebehaviour.