Tope Alabi Threatens Legal Action Over Toluwanisings Death Claims Today

Twenty-four hours to comply, fourteen days of apology pinned to the top of the page — and by 8:30 on Monday morning, every post naming her was gone. Gospel singer Tope Alabi did not wait for the rumours to fade. She sent lawyers instead.

Alabi's solicitors, Oakmount Legal Practitioners, issued a cease-and-desist letter dated October 24, 2026, against Canada-based Pastor Tayo Kumuyi, also known as Pastor Tayo Ministries. The letter was titled "Cease and Desist: Malicious and Defamatory Publications and Threats Against Our Client" and was described as a final demand for immediate removal, retraction and apology within 24 hours.

The posts at issue were published between October 20 and 24. According to the legal document, they allegedly accused Alabi of involvement in murder and ritual killing, including claims linking her to the deaths of several gospel ministers. These are allegations described in a legal letter, not established facts, and Alabi's lawyers reject them entirely.

Tope Alabi Cease and Desist: Lawyers Reject Death Claims

Alabi's lawyers state that no police investigation, court ruling or official finding has established any link between Alabi and the death of gospel minister Toluwanisings. Toluwanisings, whose real name was Olayemi Bayonile Bolaji, died on October 14, 2026.

These statements accuse our client of murder and of ritual killing. There is no more serious allegation that can be made against a person, least of all a minister of the gospel. They are false in every particular.

The lawyers also say Alabi "privately and publicly mourned the late Toluwanisings, and had no part in his death or in the death of anyone else." That sentence is the heart of her case: a fellow gospel minister's death turned, within days, into social media accusations against a colleague who says she grieved him.

The letter was signed by Toluwanimi Okunade of Oakmount Legal Practitioners, acting for Alabi. It demanded removal of the posts, a retraction, and an unconditional public apology pinned on the Pastor Tayo Ministries Facebook page for 14 consecutive days.

Pastor Tayo Facebook Posts Removed: No Apology Yet

When Legit.ng checked Pastor Tayo's Facebook page at 8:30 am on October 26, 2026, all posts referencing Tope Alabi had been removed. The pastor had continued publishing other content, but had not issued the demanded public apology as of that check.

That split — posts deleted, apology still missing — is where the story now stands. Alabi made the cease-and-desist letter public on Instagram and tagged the Nigeria Police Force in her post, a move that raised the stakes from a private legal letter to a public warning.

If the demands were not met, the lawyers warned of court proceedings for injunction, damages and costs, complaints to Meta Platforms, and referrals to law enforcement. The 24-hour clock in the letter has now run, and the question is whether the removal of the posts will satisfy Alabi's lawyers — or whether the missing apology sends this to court.

The speed of the whole afair is itself a warning about gospel music's online world. A minister dies on October 14; within ten days, accusations are circulating, lawyers are involved, and a singer's reputation is being defended in public. The same tight-knit gospel world celebrated Donnie McClurkin's closing album, Roosevelt Stewart's debut worship collection and Curt Brickley's new Christian country songs this month — and it can turn on its own just as fast.

For Alabi, the case is about more than one pastor's page. Her lawyers framed it as a defence of a minister of the gospel against the most serious allegation possible, and her public Instagram post, tagging the police, signals she does not intend to let the matter drift. For Pastor Tayo, the removal of the posts may be a retreat, a pause, or the first step toward the apology — nobody outside his circle knows yet.

What happens next will be watched across Nigeria's gospel community, where Toluwanisings' death is still fresh and grief is still raw. If an apology appears, pinned for fourteen days as demanded, the fire may go out. If it does not, the courts will decide what a Facebook post is worth — and whether a 24-hour ultimatum was the end of this story, or only the opening act?

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