In July 2025, Friday Negedu mistakenly transferred N360,000 to Ifeanyi Idike instead of the intended recipient, Kelvin Obasohan, and nine months later Idike has returned only N262,000, leaving Obasohan short N98,000.
Obasohan says he gave Negedu the wrong OPay account number and that the confusion began during a phone call. "My [former] colleague wanted me to buy some items in Lagos and send to him. He asked for my account details, which I sent to him. He called me and said that the account number I sent to him wasn’t showing my name. He asked whether he should pay," Obasohan said. He added that at the time of the call he was distracted: "I was very busy at that moment. I told him to pay. From the way the call came, I thought he was trying to say that the name showing is the name that was going to send the money to me. I didn’t really pay attention to what he was saying."
The transfer went to Idike. Obasohan and Negedu called the recipient repeatedly on July 29, 2025—"We called him from 3 pm on July 29, and up until the next day, he did not take anybody’s call. The next day, he responded, and after we dragged him, he paid a part of the money. He paid N262,000. He promised that he was going to pay the remaining one the next day," Obasohan said. On July 30, 2025, Idike refunded N262,000 but held back N98,000.
FIJ contacted Idike by WhatsApp on a Tuesday about the outstanding balance. Idike replied: "He should give me little time, I’ll pay. I have issues in my business place now. I’ll pay as soon as I get the money." Nine months after the original July transfer, the N98,000 remained unpaid, and the OPay matter is still unresolved because the recipient returned only part of the mistaken transfer.
This case is not the only misdirected-payment story involving OPay that became public. A separate YabaLeftOnline story described a woman who mistakenly transferred money from her GTB account to an OPay account. In that episode the recipient said he had reached his daily withdrawal limit and sent back half the funds first; the woman said the man later transferred the remaining half through a POS arrangement.
FIJ also referenced another related case in which Opeyemi Awodoyin was said to have withheld N100,000 sent in error and blocked the sender. Together, the accounts show a pattern in which mistaken opay transfers have at times been returned only in part or only after delay.
The tension in the Obasohan case centers on a small gap in the moment of transfer that had large consequences. Negedu says he called to confirm the account name before sending the money. Obasohan says he misread or misstated the number and was interrupted; the recipient answered the transfer but declined to complete a full refund. Idike’s July 30 partial payment and his later message to FIJ that he would pay when he could sit at odds with the early July promise to return the balance the next day.
Nine months on, Obasohan remains out N98,000. The core question now is whether Idike will honor his July 30 pledge and close the gap—an outcome the parties promised but that, so far, has not occurred.
