24.10.2025
A Nigerian pastor identified as Lucky Bidemi Olorunfemi is facing deportation from Canada after he allegedly submitted fake police report, medical reports and media reports to immigration officials in his bid to seek asylum.
Pastor Olorunfemi according to a federal court sitting in Toronto, Ontario Canada submitted the fake documents to Refugee Protection Division. In his ruling Justice Nick McHaffie stated that Olorunfemi’s documents lacked credibility and bore signs of fraud and was not qualified for asylum.
Pastor Olorunfemi, from Akure, Ondo state, filed for refugee status in 2023 after relocating to Canada. He claimed that his pro-LGBTQ teachings and tolerance of gay congregants angered “Muslim Jihadis” who sought to take his life.
In one instance, he claimed irate Muslims torched his church and chased him to a police station in March 2022. According to Mr Olorunfemi, the incident led him to go into hiding for a year. It was from there that he processed his visa to flee to Canada.
“The RPD next set out why it considered it more likely than not that the newspaper report, which was ‘riddled with spelling and grammatical errors and recounts the claimant’s allegations using language obviously similar to that of his narrative,’ was an example of ‘brown envelope journalism,’ fabricated at Mr Olorunfemi’s direction.
” It made similar conclusions regarding the letter from the Nigeria Police Force, the medical report, and the wanted poster, each of which had glaring authenticity concerns,” the judge wrote in his ruling.
Mr McHaffie said the Nigerian pastor did not provide any credible reason to counter the RPD.
Also at issue was the wanted poster reportedly issued by “the Odoua [sic] Peoples Congress”. Several misspellings, including Oodua as “Odoua” and Yoruba as “youruba,” and other inconsistencies led the refugee division to further doubt the documents’ authenticity.
“This led the RPD to conclude that the poster was fraudulent even without having to note that the poster, which bears Mr Olorunfemi’s picture, identifies him as someone with a different name entirely,” stated Mr McHaffie.
“The application for judicial review is dismissed,” the judge ruled.
Ontario Court of Justice