Popular Fuji musician, Abass Akande, popularly known as Obesere said on Thursday that the allegation that he raped a 29-year old businesswoman, Olanike Olaiya, was a smear campaign by the woman to destroy his career.
He said this in an interview conducted entirely in Yoruba at MITV’s Wazobia program. Obesere said the woman, Ms. Olanike, cooked up the allegation against him in a blackmail bid to extort him of money ranging from 5 million to ten million naira.
He admitted to knowing the woman, saying that he met her through another female acquaintance, Bola Olowo. he further admits to having sex with Ms. Olanike, but denied raping her. He also said he was never arrested by the police.
He said “She visited me at home at night and it was too late for her to return to her place. I won’t lie about the fact that we had intimate encounter. But I did not rape her. And it was about four or five days after she visited me that she went to the police to allege that I raped her.
“I went to the police station but when when I realized that the officers there were favouring her as a complainant, I requested them to transfer the case to the State Criminal Investigation Department, SCID, Panti, Yaba.
“There, they asked her for evidence that she was raped. There was no injury on her. Her clothes were intact. When she couldn’t produce evidence, the police advised her not to attempt to blackmail me. They advised her to gently approach me and ask for help if she wanted anything.
“When she first called me to say she was feeling sick, I called the woman who introduced her to me to take her to hospital. But Alhaja said nothing was wrong with her, that she was only trying to extort me. Alhaja said she planned to blackmail me into parting with between five and ten million naira.
“I can tell you my enemies are behind the allegation. They are trying to bring me down. But they won’t succeed because I’m a child of God, a messenger of God. Once God remains behind me, nobody can bring me down.
“I’m a responsible man, a reliable man. But I’m human and therefore fallible. But I’m not losing sleep about this allegation. I’m undeterred and I’m going about my business because I have no doubt that the truth will prevail.”
Yesterday, Premium Times reported that Obesere had been arrested by the police for allegedly raping Ms. Olaiya in his Okota residence in Lagos.
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