Fayose Threatens Legal Action Over Rape, Torture Allegations

The younger brother of former Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, Isaac Fayose, has threatened to drag a woman identified as Queen of Abuja to court after she publicly accused him of raping and torturing her and her three-year-old son.

Fayose, through his lawyers, has issued the woman a three-day ultimatum to withdraw the allegations, apologise unreservedly and stop further publications or face civil and possible criminal proceedings.

The threat followed a series of posts published by the woman on Threads on Sunday, in which she accused Fayose of sexually assaulting and torturing her and her young son, claiming that the alleged incidents began in May 2026 and continued until recently.

In one of the posts, the woman wrote: “Isaac Fayose, you must face the consequences of ur crimes against me; you will be arrested. I have all my evidence. You raped me, tortured me and my son who is just 3 years old from may till date.”

She also claimed to have shared evidence of the alleged incidents with Fayose and threatened to make further revelations on Monday.

However, Fayose’s lawyers, in a pre-action notice dated November 8, 2026, described the allegations as defamatory and malicious, insisting that they had caused serious damage to their client’s reputation.

The notice, signed by Nzedebe Chinonso Paul, principal partner of the law firm, was shared by Fayose on his Instagram page on Monday.

According to the lawyers, their client became aware of the allegations after friends and acquaintances alerted him to social media publications in which he was accused of rape and torture.

They also cited an audio statement allegedly circulated alongside the posts, in which the woman was quoted as saying that Fayose raped her and could not deny the allegation because she had evidence to prove it.

The lawyers argued that the publications had exposed their client to reputational damage, particularly in his capacity as a businessman and public figure.

They also questioned the woman’s decision to include her three-year-old son in the allegations, asking whether the child was equally subjected to rape and torture.

“Assuming and not conceding to the allegation of raping and torturing you in any form by our client, was your son raped and tortured as well?” the lawyers asked.

They further demanded that the woman retract the allegations from her social media accounts and ensure that bloggers and other platforms that had reproduced the claims also withdraw them.

The lawyers said they had their client’s instructions to demand an immediate and unconditional retraction of the publications, alongside an unreserved apology, within three days.

They warned that failure to comply with the ultimatum would compel them to institute a civil action and submit a petition to the appropriate authorities for investigation and possible prosecution.

“Should you fail to retract and withdraw the said malicious publication on or before the three days’ time limit, we shall resort to any possible legal means that includes and not limited to, taking a civil action and a petition to the appropriate authority for investigation and possible prosecution,” the notice stated.