A South African content creator at the centre of a viral private jet video allegedly involving Senator Adams Oshiomhole has openly dismissed claims that the footage was generated by artificial intelligence, escalating a controversy that has continued to dominate public discourse.
The woman, a lifestyle influencer and adult-content creator, took to her Instagram status on Friday, February 6, to directly counter the Edo North senator’s defence that the widely circulated clip was fabricated. In a brief post seen on Friday morning, she wrote: “Video wasn’t AI but okay believe your senator.”
Her reaction followed an earlier post in which she rebuffed online critics, stating: “Your senator is the problem, go be mad at him not me.”
The controversy centres on a 30-second video clip that surfaced online earlier in the week, showing a man who closely resembles Senator Oshiomhole massaging a woman’s foot aboard a luxury private jet. The footage quickly went viral, triggering intense debate across social media platforms.
Initial speculation wrongly identified the woman as the senator’s wife, Iara Fortes. However, subsequent checks confirmed that she is a South African influencer who describes herself on her social media profile as a “professional sugar baby” and cautions what she calls “broke people” to stay away.
Senator Oshiomhole has firmly denied any involvement in the incident. In an official response, his media aide, Oseni Momodu, described the clip as a “poorly crafted and edited fake AI video,” urging the public to disregard what he termed a false narrative aimed at blackmailing the former Edo State governor.
The senator’s media team further characterised the circulation of the footage as an act of “criminal cyberbullying” and “the awkward height of insensitivity by unguarded power seekers.”
Oshiomhole himself argued that a close examination of the clip exposed technical inconsistencies. According to him, disparities between the opening seconds—showing the woman boarding the aircraft—and the remaining footage suggested what he described as a “contraption.”
He also used the episode to renew calls for stricter regulation of social media, accusing what he termed “obubuyeye content creators” of manipulating digital material for monetary gain through foreign currency payments.
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