Pastor Tola Odutola has recounted how he confronted a real estate company over its female agents allegedly wearing miniskirts while marketing apartments to prospective buyers.
The cleric said he noticed that all the women selling homes for the company wore short skirts, prompting him to question the strategy.
“Many years ago, I wanted to buy an apartment in Nigeria, and I noticed that all the women who were in the department selling homes and apartments- none of them- went around with short skirts. And I was wondering, what is all this nonsense about?” he said.
According to Odutola, two of the female agents later visited him to present the property, allowing him to raise the issue.
“I said, ‘Can I ask you a question?’ I said, ‘Don’t you have men that sell homes in your company?’”
He said he eventually told them that he would rather have male agents market the apartments to him because of their dressing.
“I said, ‘Do you know that I would prefer the men come to me to sell than you ladies, with all these mini skirts that you’re wearing all around the place?’”
Odutola said the women were shocked by his comment and that when he encountered them again, they were no longer wearing mini skirts.
“I said to them, I said, ‘What is all this? You’re better than this.’”
The pastor described the company’s strategy of using the women’s appearance to attract customers as “sensual wisdom” and warned Christians against using sexuality to gain an advantage.
“In the eyes of the owners of the business, that was wisdom for them, putting those women out there as bait. But it’s sensual wisdom, and it’s d£monic. It’s not from God,” he said.
“Anytime you use your sexuality to get an advantage over something, that is d£monic. It’s not from God. It’s sensual. It’s demonic. We are all Christians. Let’s behave like one.”
