The senior pastor of Common Wealth of Zion Assembly, COZA, Biodun Fatoyinbo, has finally responded to Busola Dakolo’s allegations that he raped her as
The senior pastor of Common Wealth of Zion Assembly, COZA, Biodun Fatoyinbo, has finally responded to Busola Dakolo’s allegations that he raped her as a minor. Biodun Fatoyinbo denied the rape allegations in a statement he released this evening saying he has never raped anyone before. He accused Timi Dakolo and his wife, Busola of trying to extort him.
Here below is his full statement
Earlier today, Busola, wife of singer, Timi Dakolo, openly accused the controversial clergyman of sexually assaulting her as a minor back in Ilorin. In an explosive interview on YNaija TV, with Chude Jideonwo, the founder of Joy Inc, Busola, a photographer and mother of three, recounted how the clergyman who has been embroiled in a number of sexual assault related cases, raped her in her mother’s house while she was still in secondary school. Busola recounted how the clergyman also tried to have sex with her inside his matrimonial home when she came in to help his wife, Modele, when she had their first child.
This is not surprising as Timi Dakolo in recent times has been launching an attack on Biodun Fatoyinbo. He accused the pastor of taking advantage of women in his ministry and leaving them broken emotionally. Also this won’t be the first time the clergy man would be accused of sexual assault by a member of his congregation.
In 2013, Ese Walter, confessed to having had an affair with the controversial pastor. In a blog post, she revealed that she had a week-long sexual relationship with the pastor during his London visit. According to her, after arranging for a taxi to pick up Mr. Fatoyinbo from the airport during his visit to London, the pastor invited her to his hotel and offered her alcohol.
“You don’t have to be shy Ese, even if it’s alcohol, feel free and order what you want,” she claimed the pastor said.
Subsequently, she said, Mr. Fatoyinbo invited her to sit on his laps. When she hesitated, she claimed the pastor told her to relax saying: “feel free Ese.” They kissed and soon were embroiled in a week-long amorous affair that left Ms. Walter feeling abused and manipulated.
Ese Walter alleged that Mr. Fatoyinbo had dismissed the guilt she had, saying: “I will teach you a level of grace that you don’t understand.”
She however admitted that the relationship was consensual, but that she felt abused and manipulated by Biodun Fatoyinbo and the fleeting manner the church’s leadership handled the affair after she raised it with another pastor in the church. She said she went public with the story when she could no longer withstand the psychological abuse.
Also, another female member, Franca, described how close she came to being led into a sexual relationship with the embattled pastor. Franca claimed the pastor, under the pretext of doing some computer based work for him, lured her into Wheatbaker Hotel, Lagos. According to Franca, when she resisted Mr. Fatoyinbo’s advances, he rebuked her for acting like a “small illiterate uneducated girl.” She claimed in order to convince her to sleep with him, Fatoyinbo had described his wife as a “postcard…pretty on the outside but flat and empty upstairs. He said sex with her was like having sex with a cold dead fish.”
She claimed Mr. Fatoyinbo, whom she described as a “randy goat with a deflated erection”, left her after she threatened to accuse him of rape. Franca claims she has recordings and pictures taken from the hotel as proof of the encounter and threatens to publish it if the Pastor denies the incident.
