Omowunmi Aloba, the widow of late singer Ilerioluwa Aloba, popularly known as Mohbad, has made a heartbreaking plea for his burial, accusing her father-in-law, Joseph Aloba, of deliberately keeping his body in the morgue for personal gain.
In an emotional statement shared on Instagram on Wednesday, Omowunmi expressed the deep pain of living without her husband for 18 months, struggling to raise their 23-month-old son alone while dealing with the ongoing controversy surrounding Mohbad’s death.
She accused her father-in-law of refusing to bury Mohbad, claiming he was benefitting from the public sympathy and financial support that came with the tragedy.
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According to her, the prolonged delay is not out of love or grief but for personal gain.
“There is no reason, no justification for why his body is still lying in the morgue after all this time,” she wrote. “No reason why the man I vowed to love forever has been left in cold storage, denied the dignity of a final resting place.”
Omowunmi also alleged that her father-in-law was intentionally stalling the DNA test he had previously demanded, not because he wanted the truth, but because he wanted to keep public interest alive.
She claimed he was influenced by certain individuals on social media who had turned Mohbad’s death into a business, profiting from the tragedy while using online platforms to attack her and her child.
She further alleged that some of these individuals were even paying her father-in-law a monthly salary from the money they made online, reinforcing his decision to delay Mohbad’s burial.
Omowunmi expressed her frustration over the continuous social media harassment, revealing that her father-in-law had never defended his own grandson against the cruel attacks. Instead, he allegedly listens to those opposing Mohbad’s burial, claiming they are now his “family.”
She wrote, “It has been 18 months since my husband left
this world.
18 months of waking up every day to a reality
never asked for.
18 months of missing him with every breath I take.
The heavens know how much I miss him. There are no words that can truly describe the depth of this pain, the emptiness he left behind. the pray that God, in His infinite mercy, forgives all his sins and grants him a place at His right hand. And when my time on this earth is done, I pray that I will see him again.
18 months of carrying weight of being both mother and father to our now 23 month old child. 18 months of struggling to exist in a world where the love of my life is no longer beside me.
But until then, I am left here, crying out for something no wife should ever have to beg for.
“To the general public, I am pleading with you, help me ask my father-in- law to bury my husband. There is no reason, no justification for why his body is still lying in the morgue after all this time. No reason why the
man I vowed to love forever has been left in cold storage, denied the dignity of a final resting place.
My father-in-law is not keeping him there out of love or grief. He is holding on because of the attention and money he continues to receive. He knows that once my husband is finally laid to rest, the public sympathy, the donations,
the sudden fame he has found will disappear. He is dragging this on, not because he seeks justice, but because he benefits from my husband’s death.
“He is also delaying the DNA test he demanded so loudly. He does not want the truth, he wants
the conversation to continue because as long as it does, the money and support will keep coming.
And he is not alone in this.
There are people on social media who stand with him, who act as his spokespersons. These people have turned my husband’s death into a business. They profit from this tragedy. They have built platforms off my pain. They have made careers out of bullying me and my child. They make money from telling lies about me, from spreading malicious propaganda to discredit me. And worse, some of them even pay my father-in-law a monthly salary from what they make online.
“These are the people who tell my father-in-law not to bury his own son. They are the ones he listens to. He has said it himself that these strangers, these people who never knew my husband, are now his family. That they will decide when my husband is buried, not the Aloba family. And they have said over and over again that they are against it.
They claim to fight for justice, but their only real interest is the money. If justice was truly their concern, they would not have spent the last 18 months bullying me, bullying my child, cursing my son’s existence. They have done this on social media, in their private groups, even during my father-in-law’s live sessions, and he has never stopped them. He has never defended his own grandson. Instead, he sits there, listening, sometimes even adding to what they say.
“I am not just a widow. I am a woman whose entire world was shattered in an instant. A woman forced to carry not only her grief but the weight of injustice, the cruelty of people who
see her pain as entertainment. A woman who is now left with no choice but to beg.
Beg for my husband to be buried.
Beg for human decency. Beg for what should have
been done long ago.
Please, I am pleading with you. Hear my cry. Help me. Let my husband rest. Let my child have peace. Let me grieve without this never- ending battle hanging
over me.
I am begging. Please.” –
Mohbad, a rising star in Nigeria’s music industry, died under controversial circumstances in September 2023. His death sparked widespread outcry, with calls for justice leading to an autopsy and police investigation.
However, his remains have remained in the morgue, with disputes within his family complicating the situation.
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