Popular Fuji Musician, Abass Akande "Obesere" opens up on rape allegation

Popular Fuji musician, Abass Akande Obsere has opened up on the rape allegation levelled against him by a lady, Olanike Olaiya, a graduate of The Polytechnic, Ibadan, with whom he has a romantic and business relationship.

According to Obesere in an interview, Olanike’s rape allegation was concocted to extort between N5 million and N10 million from him.


On the night the lady claimed she was raped, according to Obsere, “We slept together in the same room and it was a mutual consent. We never had any grudges prior to that night and none ensued while we were there. All she is trying to do is blackmail me. How will someone build a house for 30 years and another person will just try to destroy it in one day?”

Obesere said the lady wrote in her statement to the police at the Special Criminal Investigation Department, SCID, Panti, Yaba, that she wanted money from him.

On what transpired at Panti, Obsere said: “They (police) said she must have an evidence to substantiate her allegation, but there was no proof that somebody tried to force her and there wasn’t even any scratch on her body to suggest that there was a tussle with someone.

“The officer who interrogated us blamed the IPO who monitored the case from Isolo for not investigating it properly. They asked us to go and promised to call on us whenever we were needed again for further questioning. But they made her realise that most of her allegations were spurious.”

He said he was dating Olanike and also wanted to assist her to take up the distributorship of ‘Obesere Rice’ which he was importing into the country soon.

Obesere, who is married, said he got to know the lady through a businesswoman who asked him to assist Olanike.

“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.”