Social media has been awash with reactions over an interview Busola Dakolo, wife of sensational soul singer, Timi Dakolo, granted alleging that Abuja-based Pastor Biodun Fatoyinbo of the Common Wealth of Zion (COZA) raped her as a teenager.
Below are appalling revelations made by the photographer about the fiery preacher.
- Meeting Pastor Biodun Fatoyinbo
In the viral interview, Busola stated how she met the senior pastor of COZA.
“I have to say this is the first time I would be coming out like in public to discuss something with someone else, except my family and my husband. I was still in secondary school and I came home, I was still staying in Ilorin because I was born in Ilorin, went to primary and secondary in Ilorin. I returned home for a particular holiday and my sisters all told me that they are now going to a particular club…I went there and they said time for new first timers to stand up and I did, introduced myself as Busola and explained my journey there,” she said.
Busola revealed how she wasn’t really interested in coming to the club because of the way they worshiped God but was impressed by the kind of messages and what people had to say.
“After the message, Pastor Biodun Fatoyinbo preached, he came to meet me after the service, then it wasn’t COZA, it was called Divine Delight Club and he wasn’t married yet but he was engaged to his present wife. He came to meet me and said I was such a bold lady that he had never seen someone like this, that I needed to keep the fire then he said, can you do something in the next meeting before you go to school? He asked me when I’ll be going back to school…then I told him I can sing and he said that’s great. He then said he plays the keyboard that he would help me rehearse. So, I told my sisters,” she said.
- How Pastor Biodun allegedly raped her the first time
The crux of the interview was when the mother of three recounted how Pastor Biodun allegedly raped her the first time.
In her words:” One particular day, Pastor Biodun came to meet me and he said, you don’t like to talk and he was like how are you and I was like I’m fine. He started coming to my house and my family was very involved in the COZA,” she said.
In the encounter, Busola stated that she was drawn to him because he positioned himself as a father figure as her dad wasn’t always available
“There were days we would go to church without food, then we go back home and sort out issues. The next day he came to my house in the morning. My mom was in the kitchen and I told her that My pastor is here. I told my mum that my Pastor said he is going to buy something on the road and accompanied him. While in the car, he started asking me questions telling me I am always quiet, always by myself. He said he wants to be my spiritual father”
On how she was allegedly raped, Busola in an emotion laden voice said he came to her house back then in Ilorin on a Monday morning.
“He came to my house on a certain Monday morning. I was surprised that he would come that early. Immediately I opened the door, he pushed me to one of the seats in our living room. I saw him removed his belt. I asked him what was he about to do?
He said ‘Keep quiet just do what I want you do to and you will be fine’. I already saw him like a father that could speak to me, guide me. When I was about to shout, he covered my mouth and said: ‘Busola listen to me and you will be fine’
At that point I didn’t struggle, I just left him. He brought out his penis and pulled down my pant. He found it difficult to enter , I was crying and he eventually penetrated even blood dropped on the floor. He finished what he wanted to do; he had an orgasm and zipped up. He left me there and went out. Pastor Biodun later went into his car brought a bottle of Crest (a soft drink) and poured it into my mouth. He tapped me and said I should be happy he was the one that did this to me”.
- On allegedly raping her the second time
Busola said that Modele Fatoyinbo had asked her to come help her with her new baby, something she had never done before. It was normal for church members to come to serve at the pastor’s house so her sisters dispelled her protests.
Feeling she had no choices, she went to her pastor’s house, Fatoyinbo tried to isolate her later that night from his wife and their daughter by insisting she slept in the family’s guest room.
Busola managed to prevent his plans, appealing to the pastor’s wife to let her sleep in their master bedroom. “No one ignores me.” He would tell her this the next morning, smacking her butt. It was an ominous enough statement that Busola became apprehensive and tried to leave for her house once it was past twilight. It was the first of many threats she would get from the flashy pastor.
Fatoyinbo later insisted on dropping her off at home, even though she protested several times. Instead of dropping her off at the junction as he had promised, he detoured, driving her away from safety and towards a private spot. He opened the car, pulled her out of the passenger seat and raped her a second time in the space of a week. First behind the car, then moving her to the bonnet for ease of access.