TikToker: I didn’t film Oloolu, I’m not dead

The female TikTok content creator at the centre of controversy surrounding the annual Oloolu Masquerade Festival in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, has denied filming the masquerade and also dismissed speculations she had died.

The TikToker, who simply identified herself as Wasilat, said this in a telephone interview on a programme on Lagelu FM on Monday.

The programme: “Ibi Aye N Lo,” was hosted by Adesoye Omotosho.

Wasilat said: “I am not dead. 

“I did not capture the Oloolu masquerade. 

“May I not be implicated.

“I did not record Oloolu.”

The TikToker said on the day of the incident last Thursday, around the Oremeji axis, she went to her shop but did not open it, remaining outside because the area had already been packed up. 

She said she saw people and an Amotekun vehicle passing, filmed that scene and posted it online. 

Oloolu, she maintained, did not pass along that route.

She said: “Everyone in the TikTok comment section asked me to delete it. 

“The following day, while I was at the shop, they came to meet me there. 

“I do not know why the eyewitnesses on Thursday did not defend me. 

“I don’t know who came up with that agenda, but I know God will judge.”

Chief Adeola Oloko, the spokesperson to the Olubadan of Ibadanland, Oba Rashidi Ladoja, clarified that the woman did not record the sacred Oloolu masquerade itself. 

Oloko said she captured Alawo Oloolu, a figure associated with the Oloolu.

He said: “She did not capture Oloolu; she mistook it for Alawo. 

“We contacted the Mogaji of the Oloolu compound, and he confirmed that a woman who mistook Alawo of Oloolu for the real Oloolu masquerade captured it on the street.”

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