Father of former Big Brother Naija All Stars winner, Ilebaye Odiniya, Emmanuel Odiniya, has broken his silence over the viral altercation involving his daughter, claiming he was provoked before allegedly assaulting her during a family confrontation.\n<\/p>\n
In a voice note purportedly from Odiniya, and shared on Facebook on Sunday by Kogi-based journalist, Jeremiah Promise Enemona Ocheme, now circulating online, the father said the incident was not driven by hatred for his daughter but by frustration over what he described as her changed behaviour after winning the reality TV show.<\/p>\n
\u201cI want to put the records straight that what led to that incident was not that I don\u2019t love my daughter. She is one of my best children,\u201d he said.\n<\/p>\n
He claimed he made sacrifices and mobilised support for her emergence as the winner of the BBNaija All Stars edition.\n<\/p>\n
\u201cDuring her time in the Big Brother Naija house, I contributed a lot. I stood by my daughter and made sure people voted for her massively. I used my influence and connections, including governors and other people, to support her until she won,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n
According to him, their relationship allegedly deteriorated after her victory, accusing the reality star of becoming disrespectful and physically aggressive towards him.\n<\/p>\n
\u201cAfter she came out and won, she changed. Ilebaye stopped listening to me. I would book her appointments five to six times in a week and she wouldn\u2019t give me audience. She stopped regarding me as her father,\u201d he alleged.\n<\/p>\n
The father further criticised her lifestyle, particularly her alleged cosmetic procedures.<\/p>\n
\u201cI warned her against getting cosmetic surgery \u2014 face reconstruction with fillers and BBL. She\u2019s too young for that,\u201d he said.\n<\/p>\n
Emmanuel also alleged that his daughter had physically attacked him on previous occasions.\n<\/p>\n
\u201cShe has hit me twice, and I didn\u2019t do anything to her. One day she took an AC hanger and hit me with it till blood started gushing out of my body,\u201d he claimed.\n<\/p>\n
Speaking on the latest confrontation, he alleged that the reality TV star assaulted him first before the situation escalated.\n<\/p>\n
\u201cIn this recent incident, she insulted me, hit me first with a sea hanger, causing bleeding, pushed me, and then broke an electric lantern on my head,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n
He also accused her of neglecting him financially despite his health challenges.\n<\/p>\n
\u201cI am very sick and needed to go for medical treatment in Dubai. I called Ilebaye to help me with some money and promised to refund her. She said she didn\u2019t have money. But I saw her video spraying bundles of naira at a colleague\u2019s wedding,\u201d he alleged.<\/p>\n
The father further alleged that his daughter negatively influenced her younger brother and interfered in his marriage.\n<\/p>\n
\u201cShe has also influenced her younger brother with drugs, and he was expelled from school because of it. She once advised me to divorce her mother,\u201d he added.\n<\/p>\n
Despite the accusations, Emmanuel maintained that he still loved his daughter and wanted reconciliation.\n<\/p>\n
\u201cI still love my daughter deeply. I want her to change and do better. I ask for prayers from Nigerians. The police have already intervened and settled the matter,\u201d he said.\n<\/p>\n
PUNCH Online had earlier reported that Ilebaye, alongside members of her family, including her father and younger brothers, were hospitalised following the confrontation at their Abuja residence.\n<\/p>\n
The incident became public after the reality TV star shared an emotional livestream video crying for help, sparking concern among fans and followers online.\n<\/p>\n
Confirming the development, the spokesperson for the Federal Capital Territory Police Command, Josephine Adeh, disclosed that all parties involved sustained injuries and were receiving medical treatment.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe man is in the hospital; he is sick. All of them were badly injured and are all in the hospital,\u201d Adeh had said.\n<\/p>\n
She also stated that the siblings were under police protective custody while investigations continued into the matter.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Father of former Big Brother Naija All Stars winner, Ilebaye Odiniya, Emmanuel Odiniya, has broken his silence over…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":664046,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[268786,119658,64,63,38502,320770,320771,320772,447,1581,320773,320774,320775,134,264634,129191,320776,20604,3349],"class_list":["post-664045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-abuja","tag-assault-allegations","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-bbnaija","tag-bbnaija-all-stars","tag-bbnaija-winner","tag-big-brother-naija-all-stars","tag-celebrities","tag-celebrity-news","tag-domestic-altercation","tag-domestic-dispute","tag-emmanuel-odiniya","tag-entertainment","tag-family-confrontation","tag-family-dispute","tag-ilebaye-odiniya","tag-reality-tv-star","tag-viral-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=664045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664045\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/664046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=664045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=664045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=664045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}