Cleric Chris Okafor, founder of Grace Nation Liberation City, has denied allegations that he fathered children with his ex‑wife and abandoned them, dismissing the claims as false and defamatory.
Gatekeepers News reports that the denial comes after a video shared by social media activist VeryDarkMan featured a woman calling herself Chi Okafor, who claimed she and two sisters are Okafor’s biological children and accused him of neglect.
In a statement released on Wednesday through his lawyers, Okafor described the allegations as false and misleading, saying they were spread by “jobless agents of destruction” seeking to damage his reputation and ministry.
Okafor’s legal team also said they have issued a formal warning letter to VeryDarkMan, accusing him of using his platforms to harass, defame, and incite public hostility against the cleric without verifying facts or seeking Okafor’s side of the story.
They stated, “We state categorically, emphatically, and unequivocally that the claims made by the so‑called Ms. Chi Okafor are entirely false, misleading, malicious, inciting, and gravely injurious.”
The lawyers provided a brief background on Okafor’s past marriage, saying he wed his ex‑wife after she claimed to be pregnant during his early ministry.
According to the statement, their relationship deteriorated after Okafor was kidnapped and held for about 50 days, during which his wife allegedly denied knowing him and reportedly diverted funds meant for his release.
After Okafor was freed, a dispute over the children’s paternity led him to request a DNA test, which his legal team claims showed that none of the children were biologically his.
The statement urged the ex‑wife to produce the DNA results publicly and challenged the accuracy of the claims made in the viral video.
Despite the alleged DNA findings, Okafor’s lawyers said he continued to support the children’s welfare out of compassion and goodwill, and that such support should not be seen as an admission of paternity.
The cleric’s legal team described ongoing portrayals of Okafor as an absentee father as misrepresentation and threatened legal action.
They demanded an immediate retraction of the claims, public apologies in national newspapers, removal of defamatory content online, and a new DNA test if the original results cannot be produced.
The statement concluded, “Failure to comply with these demands will leave our client with no option but to pursue all available legal remedies to protect his reputation, integrity and ministry.”
