Toyin Abraham faces backlash over fan’s arrest

Actress, Toyin Abraham, has continuously found herself at the centre of controversy for publicly supporting President Bola Tinubu (then the presidential candidate of the All Progressive Congress) in the 2023 general elections.

Even after the election ended, social media users were always quick to lambast her online, especially as economic hardship worsened across the country.

The situation took a different turn earlier in the week when Abraham allegedly got the police to arrest some persons who she claimed had made derogatory comments about her.

A social media user, simply identified on X as #YVRLO, had made a post where he insulted the actress and wished death on her son.

Another X user with the username, Ayo, accused Abraham of using ‘Tinubu’s money’ to pay for her husband, Kolawole Ajeyemi’s hair transplant.

Reacting to the backlash, Abraham stated that she did not get anybody arrested. She stated that she only wrote a petition against the persons involved. She said, “I only exercised my democratic right. You keep bullying me, even after I came on social media to beg everybody to stop bullying me. As I am here, I want to die, because people want to kill me. But, before I die, I will die along with some people. You guys have pushed me to the wall.

“I have had it up to here because you people cursed my child, but I did not arrest anybody’s mother. I simply wrote a petition, and they said I should go to the (police’s) cybercrime department, which I did, and I wrote a petition there.

“These people were paid to ruin my career and life. But, I have not committed any crimes, so I am not scared. I am ready to die, but before I die, I won’t take it easy with everybody who bullied and defamed me.”

Meanwhile, as the controversy raged on, some social media users called for people to submit petitions to Netflix, urging the video streaming platform to take action against her.

However, the actress’ fans have also been rallying behind her, stating that she was just being harassed for political reasons.