Paystack co-founder Ezra Olubi faces backlash as old paedophilia, bestiality tweets go viral

A story of romance, accusation, and a fractured onlinepersona is unfolding across social media, centring on US-based entrepreneur Max‘Makispoke‘ Obae and Ezra Olubi, the co-founder of the Nigerian fintech giantPaystack. The controversy ignited when Obae, who is bisexual, hostedan X Space session titled ‘My Piece,’ where she levied serious allegations ofmisogyny against Olubi, whom she cryptically referred to as ‘John Doe’. Obae narrated that she first met Olubi in Ikeja, Lagos, whenshe was 19, through a mutual friend from the social media platform X. She described the initial encounter as casual, noting amisogynistic comment from the other friend ‘Charles’ but not from Olubihimself. For years, they remained distant X mutuals. The dynamic shifted in 2016 when Olubi visited her in NewYork. Obae, who was primarily dating women at the time, said she viewed him asa “decent guy” and believed him to be queer and feminist based on his“presentation”. She claimed she was unaware of any romantic interest on hispart. The relationship transformed in the summer of 2023. Obae,now married to a woman, reconnected with Olubi in Lagos. She said she proposedincorporating him into their “polycule” — a consensual, non-monogamousrelationship network — citing his financial resources as a potential avenue forher to leave corporate America. She said Olubi enthusiastically agreed withthis vision of a shared community. Obae’s account took a dark turn as she described thedeterioration of the relationship. She alleged that upon learning Olubi wassexually involved with a female subordinate, she found the situation ethicallywrong, regardless of who initiated it. She claimed that after she and Olubi had sex for the firsttime, his behaviour became “extremely rude” and “hostile” towards her, while heremained friendly with her wife. Obae described a jarring disconnect between her negativeexperiences and her partner’s positive ones, which she attributed to the factthat he had not slept with her wife. She characterised Olubi’s behaviour as “psychologicalsadism,” accusing him of cultivating a “cult leader” dynamic within his innercircle where “your way is perfect and anything else is wrong”. She concluded by suspecting he lived a “fake life to lurewomen in so that he can systematically abuse them”. Obae also confirmed receiving a $55,000 loan from Olubi,which she intends to repay, and shared a photo from May 2024 showing herself,her wife, and Olubi together in Lagos. Below are remarks from Obae during the Space session: I met John Doe for the first time when I was 19 years old.This was in Ikeja, where I lived. I met John Doe through a friend—amutual—because we were all mutuals on Twitter. We followed each other forseveral years. John Doe came to my house with someone else, I’ll call Charles,and we went out. I definitely got the feeling that there was a little bit ofhatred towards women, not necessarily from John Doe, but from Charles, becausewhat had happened was when I walked into The Londoner with the two of them,then there were all these people looking at me. Charles looked at me and made acomment, going, ‘oh, so, you know, you must really feel like you’re pretty’? That comment stuck in my head because I was like, it’s onlymisogynistic men that notice those kinds of things and try to make women feelbad for being beautiful or for being recognised. So then over the years. I did not have a close relationshipwith John Doe. I did not have a real friendship with John Doe. It was justTwitter mutuals. Then fast forward to 2016 in New York, John Doe reaches out tome, comes to my apartment in New York and spends like a weekend with me. And this is the beginning of when they are working on theircompany. And at the time, I actually thought this was a very decent guy. And so John Doe comes to my house. We spent the weekendtogether. It was great. It was fantastic. And that was where we took a set ofpictures. I was like, I did not realise you had a crush on me oranything like that. This person sent me that note last year. So I was like, oh,okay, I guess this has been a long-time crush that they have had on me becauseI just did not look at them that way at all. I was dating women for the mostpart in 2016 and 2017. I was not even dating men. When I am housewarming and buying stuff, John Doe reachesout and I was like, ‘oh, I will be happy to get you a gift’. And then I got arug. And that was like the last communication with this person for the mostpart, except I think there was some thread on Twitter where this John Doe wasbeing attacked. And I had been, like, in defense of this person. I havealways had an admiration for what I perceive to be bravery, for being so outthere in a way that is not common. I had even inadvertently referred to thisperson as queer because I thought that this person was queer based on thepresentation. By the way, in the middle of all this, I got engaged toanother man. I was never in a relationship with this person. I just really wasno

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