… She also slept with multiple men, forged my signature
Former Aviation Minister, Femi Fani-Kayode, has asked the Federal High Court in Abuja to dismiss the N800 million suit instituted against him by his estranged wife, Precious Chikwendu.
The controversial former minister made the plea in a counter-affidavit filed through his team of lawyers. He told the court that his ex-wife who is a former beauty queen deprived his children of breast milk on the account of the need to preserve her shape.
He also said it was “coupled with a contrived medical condition which she claimed would not permit her to breastfeed them.”
Chikwendu had approached the court to enforce her fundamental human rights, also praying it to issue a restraining order against the former Minister.
The estranged couple had been locked in a child-custody battle following their break-up in August 2020. Fani- Kayode in a 23-paragraph affidavit he personally deposed to following the suit, denied that the applicant (Ms. Chikwendu) was violently separated from the four children they had together.
According to the former minister, “she (Chikwendu) elected to leave her matrimonial home and consciously abandon the children, in order to optimise without restraints, her extra-marital and inordinate sexual escapades.
“As a fact, it is not surprising that Ms. Precious Chikwendu is capable of such reckless abandonment, because: while she was with me in the house afore-described, she employed 12 in-house nannies to cater for the children, excluding supervisors and nurses who equally attend to them.
“The applicant did not at any time extend maternal care to the children, for the reason that she had a medical condition which deprived her of any filial bond with them; she deprived the children of the natural sucks or breast milk, also on account of the need to preserve her body shape, coupled with a contrived medical condition which she claimed would not permit her to breastfeed them,” he stated.
Fani- Kayode then, prayed the court to dismiss the suit for lacking in merit, as well as for constituting an abuse of judicial processes.
Obsession?
Ms Chikwendu had claimed in a new Instagram post that the ex-minister is obsessed with her and has refused to let her have peace. She said she had tendered proof of her allegations against her ex-husband adding that he had not responded to any.
“Whenever I make a post and you see me at peace, next day you send the police to come to harass or invite me,” she wrote on Instagram.
She further noted that her ex-husband’s claim that she was evading court service was false and that he was the one guilty of it.
“You’ve summoned me at the Karu Magistrate for 6th November, we are to meet in court but you are so pained that you are pushing another baseless case again at the Force CID. All of these to get me locked up again. What is your obsession with me? Move on sincerely, charge whatever case you have to court, and let’s get started but leave my liberty…alone,” Ms. Chikwendu said.
Ms. Chikwendu was charged alongside one of Mr Fani-Kayode’s domestic workers, Emmanuel Anakan, and five others, in the First Information Report, FIR, filed by the police but she denied the allegation by the police that she was evading service of court summons.
