Nigeria, Oct. 3 -- A female sickle cell patient, Euphemia Ede, has accused a popular bishop of deceiving her into having sex with him as a way of helping her to get healing from her condition.

The cleric, Samuel Onyeagoziri, is the general overseer of Champions of the Truth Church in Abakaliki, the Ebonyi State capital.

Ms Ede, while appearing as a guest in a podcast recently, claimed the cleric had been sleeping with her since 2021 while she was still a secondary school student.

A video clip of the podcast was uploaded on Facebook on Monday.

PREMIUM TIMES understands that Ms Ede's comments came shortly after a sex tape involving her and the cleric went viral.

Mr Onyeagoziri, according to Ms Ede, had claimed the sex tape was an "AI m...