“Anyone Who Alleges Must Prove” Inside Actress Iyabo Ojo’s Fight To Defend Her Family

It started as a court filing. By this week, it had turned into a full-blown social media war of words involving Nollywood royalty, a one-year-old baby, a nanny, and a rival actress who says she has “500 pieces of evidence” and no intention of backing down.

On Wednesday morning, September 9, 2026, veteran actress Iyabo Ojo finally broke her silence with a statement that read less like a celebrity update and more like a woman drawing a line in the sand for her family’s sake.

“Anyone Who Alleges Must Prove” Iyabo Ojo’s Defense, In Her Own Words

Just after sunrise on Wednesday, September 9, 2026, actress Iyabo Ojo picked up her phone and did what she had done many times before when trouble came knocking she went to Instagram. But this time, the tone was different: firmer, more legalistic, less playful.

“ANYONE WHO ALLEGES MUST PROVE,” she wrote in bold caps, before adding, “No one is above the law. Don’t be deceived. The law and justice will take its full course.”

She wasn’t finished. In the paragraphs that followed, she took direct aim at what she sees as a pattern of people online claiming to have receipts they never actually produce. “It’s 2026,” she wrote, almost exasperated. “Please stop believing anyone who comes online to manipulate grown adults like you… saying ‘I have proof, I have evidence’ without ever showing or posting the evidence for you to verify for yourself.”

Then came the line that mattered most to her family’s case: a flat denial that anything Iyabo Ojo’s camp has put online is manufactured.

“Please let me be very clear: There is NO WAY I repeat, NO WAY we would ever post anything on social media that is fake. It’s a public notice. You can verify it if you are in denial. Know that. And know peace.”

She closed on a spiritual note that has become something of a signature for her in moments of crisis: “1 with God is a majority, and my confidence lies solid in Him. No one is bigger than God, so that no one can rewrite my story or my kids’ story. No matter how hard they plot, curse, defame, manipulate, twist and bark. My family and I are God’s chosen.” To her fans, she added simply: “I love you and appreciate you.”

How We Got Here: The Court Order, the Baby, and the Feud That Won’t Die

To understand why Iyabo Ojo felt the need to say any of this, you have to rewind to Wednesday, September 2, 2026. That was the day Justice Yetunde Adesanya of the Lagos State High Court granted an interim order under Suit No. LD/ADR/6646/2026 restraining actress Lizzy Anjorin Lawal from publishing, posting, circulating, uploading, or broadcasting any content about Iyabo Ojo’s daughter, Priscilla Ojo Mkambala, Priscilla’s husband, Tanzanian singer Juma Mussa Mkambala (known as Juma Jux), and their one-year-old son, Rakeem Mkambala. The order named specific platforms Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp, and TikTok and also barred Anjorin from publishing “editorials” about the family. Because the application was filed and heard ex parte, Anjorin had no opportunity to respond before the order was issued.

Priscilla Ojo shared a certified copy of the order on her Instagram Story two days later, on Friday, September 4 and for a moment, it looked like a clean legal win for the family.

It didn’t stay that way. Within hours, Lizzy Anjorin went live on Instagram and, rather than address the order’s terms, questioned whether it was even real. Her argument: that posting a court letter on social media before formally serving the other party makes the whole case void. “Your case na dead on arrival,” she said. “If you post court letter on any platform before serving person wey you wan go serve, that court case na fake court case.”

She went further, mocking the family outright “Iyabo Ojo na mugu” and framing herself as untouchable: “Person wey you don bully her pikin, bully her family, that person get right to bully you.”

She didn’t stop at commentary. That same week, Anjorin posted a clip of baby Rakeem being carried by his nanny and used it to float a startling new claim that the nanny, not Priscilla, was the child’s “real mother,” based on what she called a physical resemblance. She also dragged Iyabo Ojo’s name into unrelated territory, referencing the death of Afrobeats singer Mohbad. In a separate video, Anjorin was blunter still about her motives: “I made your children feel the heat. This is my payback time,” adding that defying the court order was the only way she believed she could “conquer Iyabo Ojo.”

It’s the fake-court-order claim specifically repeated across her Instagram Live sessions on September 4 and 5 that Iyabo Ojo’s September 9 statement was built to answer.

This isn’t new. Anjorin and Iyabo Ojo have been at war, on and off, for well over a year. In 2024, a Lagos court threw out a ₦1 billion defamation suit Iyabo filed against Anjorin. In January 2026, Anjorin accused Iyabo of having a hand in a colleague’s death, prompting Iyabo to publicly suggest Anjorin “really needs help” and needed medical attention. In late July, Anjorin warned her followers not to donate money toward any legal case Iyabo or Priscilla might bring, claiming to hold “more than 500 pieces of evidence” a number she has repeated in nearly every subsequent clash, including this latest one.

How Iyabo Ojo’s Family Responded

The family’s posture has been two-pronged: legal action from Priscilla, moral and spiritual defiance from Iyabo.

Priscilla was the one who moved first and formally filed the court application alongside her husband and infant son, then publicizing the resulting order the moment it landed. When Anjorin accused her of “locking her in prison” with the filing, Priscilla dismissed the framing entirely, insisting she was simply an adult protecting her family and describing Anjorin, in blunt terms, as someone who needed help.

Iyabo, for her part, chose to frame the entire saga as collateral damage from her activism rather than anything her family did wrong. “All this noise these miscreants call ‘attacks’ is a result of my activism,” she said. “And I honestly have no regrets because I have stood on the right path.” It’s a defense she has used before, and one that resonates with a fan base that has watched her intervene publicly in other people’s disputes for years which, ironically, is part of what critics say fuels the backlash in the first place.

Where the Public Stands: Supporting Iyabo Ojo

A large section of the online audience has rallied around the actress and her daughter, and their arguments tend to cluster around a few points:

The order is real and verifiable. Supporters point out that the certified copy Priscilla shared carries a specific suit number and the presiding judge’s name details that are, in principle, checkable at the Lagos High Court registry, and not the kind of thing typically faked wholesale.

Enough is enough. Fans who have followed the feud since 2024 argue that Anjorin’s claims have piled up for years without ever being substantiated, and that a court order was the responsible next step rather than an overreaction.

Protecting a baby crosses a line. Several commenters specifically framed the dispute around Rakeem, arguing that dragging a one-year-old’s parentage into an adult feud went too far and justified the family seeking legal protection.

Where the Public Stands: Criticizing Iyabo Ojo

Not everyone is sympathetic, and the criticism isn’t only coming from Anjorin’s corner:

“You are doing too much.” Just days before this statement, Iyabo drew backlash of her own for welcoming a former ally of Lizzy Anjorin’s to her grandson’s celebration. One fan publicly called her out over it, writing: “Aunty Iyabo, you are doing too much,” and accusing her of chasing clout rather than protecting her family’s peace.

Skepticism about the social-media-first approach. Even some who don’t side with Anjorin have echoed her narrower procedural point questioning why a court document was posted publicly before being formally served, since that sequencing is exactly what gave Anjorin an opening to cast doubt on it.

Fatigue with the back-and-forth. A recurring comment across multiple threads, from a Facebook user posting as @sweet human, put it bluntly: “Many are mad, few are roaming” a sentiment echoed by others who see both women as feeding a cycle neither seems willing to end.

Where the Public Stands: On Lizzy Anjorin’s Side of the Fight

Supporting Lizzy Anjorin. Anjorin’s defenders lean hard on her procedural argument that sharing a legal order on Instagram before it was served on her personally undermines its legitimacy and some are willing to reserve judgment until her claimed cache of “500 pieces of evidence” actually surfaces. Others simply enjoy her unfiltered, confrontational style and see her as the underdog taking on a more powerful, better-connected celebrity family.

Criticizing Lizzy Anjorin.

The criticism here is sharper and more personal. Commenter @rhoda kim pushed back hard on Anjorin’s “I made your children feel the heat” remark, writing, “Failed children??? You dey lie” rejecting the idea that Anjorin’s campaign has achieved anything close to what she claims. Others have questioned why, years into the feud, the promised “500 pieces of evidence” has never actually been shown, and pointed to her willingness to speculate publicly about a toddler’s parentage as evidence that the dispute has moved well past legitimate criticism into personal cruelty. Iyabo Ojo’s own past remark that Anjorin “really needs help” continues to circulate as a rallying line for people unwilling to take Anjorin’s claims at face value.

Overall, as things stand on Wednesday, September 9, 2026, nothing about this dispute has actually been resolved, only stated, restated, and argued over online. The Lagos High Court’s interim order restraining Lizzy Anjorin remains in force, but she has continued posting about the family in apparent defiance of it, and no independent body has yet confirmed or debunked her claim that the order itself was fabricated. Iyabo Ojo’s statement doesn’t introduce new evidence either; it’s a public appeal to standards proof over hearsay, courts over comment sections aimed at a public that has, by now, watched this same fight flare up and die down more than once since 2024. Whether “the law and justice” she invokes actually settles anything will depend on what happens when the substantive case, not just the interim order, comes before the court. Until then, both women’s followers are left doing what they’ve done for over a year: picking a side and waiting for the next post.

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