"We Lost Our Unborn Child Running From Ogboni": Wife of Fugitive Cult Leader's Son Breaks Silence

In an emotional testimony, Funke Abosede Fatogun, the wife of Shola Fatogun—the son of a notorious late Ogboni cult chieftain—has revealed the devastating personal toll her husband’s refusal to inherit his father’s ritual mantle has taken upon their family.

Funke recounted how the couple lost a pregnancy and fled their home in fear after Shola rejected a hereditary title that would have made him the next “chief slaughterer” of the Ogboni Fraternity in Akinyele, Ibadan.

Funke’s account begins in tragedy with the death of her father-in-law, Ojo Fatogun, in November 2022. Ojo, revered and feared as the cult’s “chief slaughterer,” reportedly became the subject of sinister prophesies: “Family friends warned us not to touch his body,” Funke said, voice trembling. “That night, three men came and removed his heart.”

Six months after Ojo’s burial, Funke says, Ogboni elders arrived at the Fatogun household bearing a foreboding white ritual cloth, pressing Shola to succeed his father. Being a devoted Christian and member of the Mountain of Fire and Miracles Ministries, Shola knew what accepting the cloth meant. “He stood firm and refused. The elders gave him one month, threatening ‘actions’ should he not reconsider,” Funke recounted.

Fearing for their lives, Shola and Abosede sought help at the local police station. “We thought the police could protect us,” Funke explained, but that hope was quickly dashed. “The DPO turned out to be the very man who delivered the Ogboni’s ultimatum.” For the young family, the message was clear: the reach of the Ogboni outweighed the power of the uniform.

The Fatoguns fled Ibadan that night, heading for the anonymity of Abuja. But the terror followed. “The constant fear, always looking over our shoulders, destroyed our peace,” Funke said, her composure breaking. The confusion and stress proved physically and emotionally unbearable.

“We lost our baby. It is a devastation that hurts every day.”
Any notion of Abuja as a sanctuary was short-lived. Their host, herself terrified, warned that even the capital offered no safety. “Their reach extends here. You must leave Nigeria,” they were told.
Funke traces her husband’s refusal to a moral horror shaped years before, recalling a 2015 incident in which Shola’s father allegedly participated in a ritual sacrifice.

“He saw his father emerge with a bloodied dagger after leading a hooded victim, Eran Oluwo, into a chamber,” she said. “Shola told me his father once admitted the cult would eventually claim his own heart.”
For Shola, rejecting the cult’s legacy was not just an act of personal courage, but of faith. “He risked everything to break the cycle of violence. Now our family is broken, and in grief.”