A woman named Fatimoh Oloyede’s web of deception came crashing down after an 11-year-long charade where she led two men to believe they were the father of her daughter, Damola. The 38-year-old woman had successfully deceived the two men, Sharafa Biliaminu and Oluwasegun Benson, by claiming to be pregnant with their child at different times. However, her castle of lies collapsed when the men found out about the deception.
Fatimoh initially lived with Oluwasegun Benson in Lagos, claiming to be pregnant with his child. After a few months, she left for Ibadan and then moved in with Sharafa Biliaminu, telling him she was carrying his child. Later, she returned to Ibadan and gave birth to a baby girl, Damola, who has now become the subject of a serious paternity dispute.
Sharafa, one of the men claiming to be the father, discovered Fatimoh had introduced Damola to another man as her father and had taken her to live with him. The situation led to Fatimoh’s interdiction by the operatives of the Frederick Fasehun-led faction of the Oodua People’s Congress (OPC).
Both Sharafa and Oluwasegun narrated their experiences with Fatimoh, with each believing he was the father of Damola. However, Fatimoh clarified that neither man was the true father. According to her, the real father is an Ibadan-based drummer named Bayo. Fatimoh confessed that she had lied to Bayo about working in Lagos, where she spent more time with Benson than Sharafa.
Damola, the center of the paternity row, shared her story, revealing how her mother introduced her to two different men as her father. The 11-year deception has caused turmoil and a serious paternity dispute among the three men involved. Fatimoh pleaded for forgiveness and wished for the matter to be resolved for the sake of her new marriage.
Benson recalled that he ignited the affair with Fatimoh about 20 years ago when he was fond of revelling at a beer joint in the Agege part of Lagos State.
Benson said: “I am an operative of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) in the Agege area of Lagos State. I work at one of the parks there.
“Usually, after the day’s work, there is a beer joint in town where we usually relax, and that was where I met Fatimoh who was then one of the attendants.
“One of my friends was actually dating her friend and I also started dating her around 2002/2003. She would sleep in my hotel room and return to where she was living because I had not got my personal accommodation then.
“She later told me that she was pregnant for me, and I declined responsibility because I knew that she lied a lot, and because she was working at a beer parlour where people like her are exposed to men.
“But she insisted that I was responsible for the pregnancy and I accepted. Shortly after, she vanished for about eight months and returned with a baby boy named Jibola, claiming that the baby was mine.
“I told her that I would accept the baby but I would not take her as my wife. I also promised that I would take charge of the boy’s upkeep.
“She said her brother and mother were the ones that named the baby, and I was giving her money for the baby. By then, I had got my own apartment and she started pleading with my younger sister to talk to me so that I could take her back. It was my sister that took her to my father and my father told me that I should accept her back.
“She moved in with me and we started living together as a couple. She took in again and disappeared when the pregnancy was five months old.
“She said she was visiting her mother, and a few months later, she called me on the phone, saying that she had been delivered of a baby girl and that I should send the name of the baby. I disagreed and told her to bring the baby to Lagos for proper christening.
“She later returned with the baby girl (Damola) and I refused to accept that the baby was mine. But after being persuaded by people, I accepted her and the baby and we lived together for about one and a half years until she left me again and only recently returned with the baby to be engulfed the current controversy.”
Fatimoh, however, explained that neither Sharafa nor Benson is the father of Damola. She explained that the real father of the girl is an Ibadan-based drummer identified simply as Bayo.
She said she could not explain what led her to deceive the duo to believe that they fathered her daughter.
She said: “My name is Fatimoh Adedeji. I am from Oje Compound in Ibadan, Oyo State. I am 38 years old. I
“I don’t live in Lagos. I live in Igbeti part of Oyo State. Benson Oloyede asked me to see him in Lagos, and I told him to wait till this week when I would be able to visit him at Agege, Lagos.
“Benson is my husband and Sharafa too is my husband. I met them at different times and places, but it was Benson I met before Sharafa.
“I met Benson while I was a beer parlour attendant in Agege. By then I had already had a son called Kayode with a man who is deceased.
“I would not lie; I was already dating Benson before my former husband died. I was shuttling between Agege and Ibadan where my husband was resident before he died.
“Along the line, I got pregnant and Benson told me that he was not responsible for the pregnancy, hence I returned to Ibadan hoping that I would deliver the baby there.
“I subsequently came back to the Kollington area of Alagbado, a Lagos suburb where I was assisting a woman to sell some items in a store. It was there that I met Sharafa’s sister (now deceased) who urged me to marry her brother because he had no wife at home.
“By then, the pregnancy was already three months old, and I explained to Sharafa’s sister who promised to give me a substance that could help abort the pregnancy so I could marry Sharafa.
“I took the substance and I believed the pregnancy was terminated because I saw blood after ingesting it.
“However, when I returned to Ibadan two months after, I noticed that my stomach was bulging. I visited a hospital for tests, which confirmed that the pregnancy was intact and five months old.
“My husband in Ibadan, who is now deceased, believed he was responsible for the pregnancy. Sharafa, who I spent more than two months with, believed the pregnancy was his, and Benson, who had initially denied the pregnancy, later accepted it because I insisted that he was the one that slept with me.
“However, it was Sharafa that threw a party on the day the baby was named.
“The baby, a girl, is more than 11 years old now. I don’t know how I managed to deceive three men to believe they are the father of my daughter.
“I did not live permanently with any of the three men. The real father of my daughter is called Bayo, hence neither Sharafa nor Benson is her father.
“I lied to Bayo, a drummer with a popular Fuji artiste, Tiri Leather, in Ibadan that I was coming back to Lagos to work. In Lagos, I spent more time with Benson than I did with Sharafa.
“I was never pregnant for Sharafa; it was his late sister that arranged our relationship.
“Sharafa actually asked me to come take my daughter after his mother (Mama Mushin) died. I was then living at Pelewura area of Lagos Island.
“He explained to me that the person he asked to take care of the girl was spending the money he gave him to take care of my daughter on betting.
“My first husband was Abideen. We had an Islamic wedding but he is late now.
“I have five children; four boys and a girl (Damola). I am pregnant with the sixth child.
“Damola’s real father, Bayo, knows there is a paternity issue with Damola. My present husband lives in Igbeti (Oyo State) and he is not aware that I am enmeshed in an issue like this.
“I don’t intend to date or have children for either Sharafa or Benson again because God has provided me with my own husband, and I cannot leave my daughter with them.”
Wearing a rather sullen look, Damola revealed how her embattled mother introduced her to two different men as her father.
She said: “My name is Damola Oloyede. From infancy, I was living with the mother of Daddy Sharafa called Mama Mushin until the woman died and my mother took me to Daddy Oloyede, who she told me is my father’s younger brother.
“She warned that I must embrace him and address him as my daddy. I did as she instructed until I returned to Daddy Sharafa and opened up on what happened and how my mother took me to another man (Benson), who she claimed was my father.”
Pleading for forgiveness from the men for her indiscretions, Fatimoh said: “I want Sharafa and Benson to forgive me and let go of this matter for the sake of God, because I don’t want my new husband to know about this matter at all.
“I don’t want the matter to destroy my new marriage.”
