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A celebrity photographer just accused one of Nigeria’s most influential pastors of rape, on camera, with her name attached.

On the morning of June 28, 2019, Nigerian outlet YNaija, through its video arm Y!TV, published an interview that immediately tore through Nigerian social media. Journalist Chude Jideonwo sat down with Busola Dakolo — photographer, wife of musician Timi Dakolo — for a tell-all in which she named Pastor Biodun Fatoyinbo, founder and senior pastor of the Commonwealth of Zion Assembly (COZA), as the man who raped her twice when she was a teenager. Within hours of the clip going up, it was everywhere.

• Busola Dakolo alleges Fatoyinbo raped her twice as a teenager — once at her family’s home in Ilorin, once inside his car — years before COZA became the megachurch it is today.
• The confession came in an exclusive video interview with Chude Jideonwo for YNaija/Y!TV, published June 28, 2019, and it went viral almost immediately.
• Dakolo says she went public after anonymous social media accounts tried to smear her character; her husband, Timi Dakolo, had already posted online condemning predatory leaders who target young women in ministry.

Interview Origins and Reception

The sit-down with Jideonwo wasn’t a leaked recording or a screenshot thread — it was a full, on-camera account, filmed and released deliberately by Dakolo and YNaija. That distinction mattered. In a country where accusations against powerful clergy rarely make it past whisper networks, a named accuser speaking directly into a camera, describing dates, locations and a timeline, was almost unprecedented for a figure as prominent as Fatoyinbo, whose COZA services in Abuja and Lagos draw thousands of members and plenty of celebrity congregants.

The clip spread fast enough that by the time most of Lagos and Abuja were at their desks that Tuesday morning, Dakolo’s account was already the dominant conversation on Nigerian social media, well ahead of any statement from Fatoyinbo or COZA.

The Beginning of the Abuse

Dakolo told Jideonwo she first crossed paths with Fatoyinbo while she was still in secondary school, after her sisters talked her into attending his youth ministry — then called the “Divine Delight Club,” the outfit that would eventually grow into COZA. She said the first assault happened at her family’s home in Ilorin, early one morning, when Fatoyinbo showed up unannounced and used the trust her family had placed in him to get her alone.

She described the second assault happening later, in his car, after she had gone to help his wife, Modele, who had just given birth. What was meant to be an errand of support turned into the ride home where, Dakolo says, the second rape took place.

She says it happened twice — once in her family’s home in Ilorin, once in his car, months after she’d gone to help his wife who had just given birth.

Deliverance Sessions and Rumors

According to Dakolo, the aftermath was its own form of control. She said Fatoyinbo subjected her to repeated “deliverance sessions,” framed as spiritual solutions to what he called their shared “problem,” while also spreading rumors questioning whether she was ready for a relationship. She eventually broke away from the ministry with help from a cousin of Fatoyinbo’s, someone she had confided in and who helped her get out.

Motivation for Speaking Out

Dakolo told Jideonwo the decision to go public wasn’t sudden — it came after anonymous accounts on social media began attacking her character, and she decided to control the narrative herself rather than let it be dictated by people hiding behind burner accounts. Her husband, Timi Dakolo, had already been dropping hints, posting online in the days prior about predatory leaders who exploit young women under the cover of ministry, without naming names. Once the interview dropped, those posts read as a setup for exactly this moment.

The story sits at the intersection of celebrity, faith and reckoning that outlets covering trending celebrity news and broader world news out of Nigeria were both scrambling to cover that same morning, given how quickly Dakolo’s name, Fatoyinbo’s name and COZA were all trending together.

By midday, #BusolaDakolo was sitting alongside #COZA and Fatoyinbo’s name across Nigerian Twitter, the exact kind of pressure Timi Dakolo’s earlier posts seemed to be building toward before his wife ever sat down in front of Jideonwo’s camera.