By Felicia Odom 11.5.2026
Reality TV star and Big Brother Naija All Stars winner, Ilebaye Odiniya is still smarting from a violent confrontation with her biological father, which left her bruised and battered.
Her father Emmanuel Godson Odiniya has now come forward with story of what led to the bitter row, speaking during an interview with Kogi based journalist Jeremiah Enemona Ocheme, Odiniya claimed that Ilebaye who became head strong and violent after becoming famous provoked him to beyond limit and that was why he pounced on her. He said the fight has been long in coming.
“I want to put the records straight that what led to that incident was not that I don’t love my daughter. She is one of my best children,” he said.
“During 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.
“After 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’t give me audience. She stopped regarding me as her father.”
He also stated Ilebaye adopted strange lifestyles including undergoing plastic surgery.
“I warned her against getting cosmetic surgery — face reconstruction with fillers and BBL. She’s too young for that,” he said.
He alleged that Ilebaye had in the past hit several times before the show down last weekend.
“She has hit me twice, and I didn’t do anything to her. One day she took an AC hanger and hit me with it till blood started gushing out of my body,” he claimed.
“In this recent incident, she insulted me, hit me first, causing bleeding, pushed me, and then broke an electric lantern on my head,” he said.
