SHAME: Nigeria pop star D'Banj faces rape allegations

…D’Banj accused of raping a lady in 2018

Beyond COVID-19 in Nigeria, the hottest topic in the country right now is rape.

This is a fallout of some rape incident that occurred in Edo State over the weekend where a lady was raped and hacked to death by rapists inside a church.

This has drawn condmenations from several quarters including from Nigerian celebrities.

But one of the celebrities, Oladapo Daniel Oyebanjo known by his stage name as D’Banj could not condemn the incident in peace. After he took to his Instagram page to condemn the incident, a rape allegation against him surfaced online.

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#NoMeansNo We Need to Raise Our Sons right and Teach them to love and Respect Women .We Need Justice for Our GIRLS…Say NO to Rape, Racism, tribalism. Let us stop living in FEAR and HATE ,and start living in LOVE .🙏🙏🙏

A post shared by D'banj (@iambangalee) on Jun 2, 2020 at 5:11pm PDT

This post by D’Banj brought up a long forgotten case of alleged rape by the music star.

He was accused of having raped a girl on the 30^th of December, 2018 at a hotel where the girl was lodged. It was alleged that D’Banj had seen the girl at an event which was held at Eko Atlantic.

It was said that D’Banj made moves at the said victim who ignored him. He was also said to have offered the girl some money in order to have his way with her but all proved futile.

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It was also alleged that D’Banj had left his own hotel where he was lodged for the victim’s hotel where he finally forcefully had his way with her.

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How you have the courage to post about rape is what baffles me. Quick story time—On the 30th of December 2018 at eko Atlantic an event called splash off which was an all white party,franklin your manager then invited my friend to the party,On getting there Dbanj sighted her and sent few people to talk to her but she refused. My friend left the party and went to glee hotel in Vi where she was lodged by her friend franklin cos my friend couldn’t go back to the mainland that day. My friend got a call from oyinda who at that time was dating dbanjs friend, telling my friend the amount of money dbanj was ready to spend on her if he agrees,but my friend turned down the offer because she wasn’t interested. Dbanj drove all the way from Eko hotel where he was lodged and came down to glee hotel in Victoria island at midnight 2:40am and collected the spare key from the receptionist, obviously it’s dbanj a fucking celebrity rapist, he would be given a spare key, got into my friends room and forcefully threatened he would walk her out of the room naked,Kept his fingers in her Vagina and repeatedly raped her. My friend was crying and dbanj turned deaf ears how wicked and heartless!!! And immediately he did that Dbanj left. So you still have the right to post on Rape it’s been two years my friend has been traumatized over this. And as at yesterday she threatened to commit suicide, she’s so livid and mad seeing a rapist like you post this. Take this post down and stop clouting, stop being a preacher of Rape cos you’re a rapist. I know I don’t have the power to push this but all Rapist will die a miserable deaths! #wearetired

A post shared by Otunba Benjamin Ese Action (@action_ben) on Jun 3, 2020 at 3:07am PDT

Whether or not this accusation is true, no one can be sure yet. Nigerians are however already suspicious of the superstar as further comments tend to prove the truthfulness of this accusation.