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BUSINESSMAN TUNDE AYENI ARRESTS HOMEWRECKER, ADAOBI ALAGWU, BARS HER CHILD FROM USING HIS NAME
– Billionaire Writes Immigration, Seeks Legal Intervention to Curtail Alagwu’s Paternity Fraud
– Many Are Dying in Silence, Ayeni Should Be Commended for Speaking Out – Pundits
In the wake of her arrest and detention for invading and breaking into Ayeni’s private property, the billionaire magnate has written the Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS) to void any international passport presented by Adaobi Alagwu and her child, bearing his name.
Adaobi Alagwu
Declaring any such document illegitimate, Ayeni, speaking through his lawyer, Dele Adesina (SAN) established that neither Alagwu nor her daughter is entitled to the use of his name on travel documents as he has no familial relationship with them.
Ayeni disclosed this by copying the NIS, a “Cease and Desist” legal notice he sent to Alagwu. The letter titled, “Withdrawal of Consent for Use of the Family Name ‘Ayeni’ With Respect To Your Daughter Omarosa” established that Ayeni has no blood relationship with
Ayeni’s recent step was informed by Alagwu’s frantic resort to adopting his name on her daughter’s international passport even after a DNA test had established that she isn’t Ayeni’s child.
A desperate Alagwu had lied by pronouncing Ayeni as the father of her lovechild and adopting his name for the latter but the billionaire magnate decisively squashed her plot, particularly the illegitimate adoption of his name by her and her daughter.
Pundits have severally commended Ayeni for his courage in speaking out and institution of legal action to neuter the plot of Alagwu who seems hell-bent on forcing her child on him to guarantee her access to his fortune.
“Many rich men are dying in silence. Most of them are victims of desperate baby mamas and side-chicks, who would stop at nothing to ruin them if they fail to accept paternity of their illegitimate children,” said a senior lawyer who has handled a lot of such cases in the FCT, Abuja.
According to her, most such homewreckers are eventually paid off or allowed to have their wish by their oft-frazzled victims. But Alagwu, she said, has met her match in Ayeni, who has adopted every defensive measure including the support of his beloved wife, to stave off gold digger Alagwu’s attacks.
The telling of a lie was Alagwu’s initial sin, but adding invasion and trespassing, multiple times, on a private property accentuated her misdemeanour, establishing a disorder in her soul, set in by the puncturing from a spear coated by guilt. Ultimately, it attracts disgrace, the type that Alagwu experienced in the custody of the police, in Abuja.
Findings revealed that in January this year, at 36 Birao Street, Alagwu allegedly entered illegally, into one of Ayeni’s properties formerly occupied by her, and of which she had surrendered possession over six months prior.
Her reasons for the unauthorised entry was not acceptable to Ayeni, which necessitated the report of the incidence at the Wuse 2 Police Station, Abuja.
Alagwu was subsequently invited to the police station to answer to the allegations against her. In response, she claimed that she never visited the property but sent one of her underlings to pick up her air conditioner from the building.
In the presence of the DPO, Ayeni who joined the meeting via a phone call, warned Alagwu to keep away from his property and his family. He urged the police to do their job and give the matter definite closure.
Through Ayeni’s submissions, Alagwu tried to talk over him; this eventually irked the police chief and he ordered that Alagwu be detained behind the counter until she calmed and displayed decorum.
The recent incident follows Alagwu’s desperate attempt to wreck Ayeni’s home by pronouncing him the father of her daughter and adopting his name for the said child.
Subsequently, Ayeni’s lawyers wrote to Alagwu. In a letter titled: WITHDRAWAL OF CONSENT FOR USE OF THE FAMILY NAME ‘AYENI’ WITH RESPECT TO YOUR DAUGHTER OMAROSA, they wrote, “We act as solicitors to Dr. J. O. Ayeni and Mrs. Abiola Ayeni both of No.…..( address withheld )F.C.T Abuja, hereinafter referred to as ‘our clients’ and on whose firm instructions we write you this ‘CEASE and DESIST’ letter. You may recall an earlier letter we had written to you regarding the relationship between your goodself and our client dated the 30th of June 2023.”
Continuing the letter read, “We would like to refer to an incident that took place sometimes in the month of January this year at 36 Birao Streetwhere you illegally entered into one of our properties formerly occupied by you of which you had surrendered possession over six months prior. Your reasons for the unauthorized entry was not acceptable to our clients which necessitated the report of the incidence which they authorized to be made at the Wuse 2 Police Station, Abuja.
“In the course of one of the conferences held at the Police station, we consider your narrative which resulted in your alluding to your daughter with a United States Passport No: (number withheld) in the name of (name withheld)as our client’s daughter to be highly disrespectful, disingenuous, and to say the least, unacceptable to our clients. It is surprising to learn of this remark credited to you despite the well published series of disclaimers of fatherhood by our Dr. J.O. Ayeni, you could still dishonestly be making such an unacceptable and untruthful remarks in your desperate attempt to confuse the unsuspecting public in respect of the fatherhood of your daughter which our Dr. J.O. Ayeni vehemently denies.
“We do not intent to speculate but wish to state that our client do not understand why you will continue this pattern of falsehood rather than a dignified way of allowing the family of our clients to be in peace. Should your behavior has any connection with the good nature of our client that may have been extended to you in the past, we wish to state that it may have been as a result of the misrepresentation created by you in the past when our client did not take steps to check out facts credited to you and as such has since been withdrawn and no such gesture will ever emanate from our client to you or your daughter either now or in the future.”
It would be recalled that few weeks ago, Alagwu triggered the wife of the billionaire magnate and defunct Skye Bank ex-chairman, Abiola, over her paternity claims.
Goaded by mischief and her lust for filthy lucre, Alagwu pronounced herself as the new Mrs Ayeni and attributed the paternity of her daughter to him. But her plot, however well contrived, failed to threaten the peace or break the home of the Ayenis.
Alagwu never envisaged push-back from Abiola, her quarry’s delectable yet formidable wife. While she postured and paraded herself as the new Mrs Ayeni in town, she never imagined her nemesis in the real Mrs Ayeni – a trained attorney, an accomplished fashion designer and queen of the billionaire magnate’s homestead.
Abiola, the debonair and real Mrs Ayeni, effortlessly staved off Alagwu as a frantic “impostor and gold digger” thus maintaining her loyalty to her husband and saving her marriage. Caught in the flames of her scheme, Alagwu burned like the proverbial moth that flies too close to the flame.
To Alagwu’s chagrin, her crabby plot to present herself as a younger wife to Tunde Ayeni backfired ultimately because the latter’s wife trusted him too much to doubt his fidelity. Abiola never considered Alagwu much of a threat to her marriage despite adopting his surname and attributing paternity of her daughter cum alleged love child to him.
In a widely publicised newspaper advertorial recently, Ayeni published a disclaimer “to set the records straight permanently and for the last time.”
In the strongly worded publication, he said, “I am not involved in any way with Miss Alagwu and I will never be. I do not have anything to do with her and her daughter and I will never have anything to do with them. The rumours alleging that I gave her certain material possessions including a house, an office and cars are all lies. They are figments of the imagination of mischief makers.”
According to Ayeni, he has eyes only for his wife, Abiola, with whom he has three wonderful children. He said, “Right now, I’m a father of three wonderful children with my delectable wife, Abiola. These are the legitimate scions of the Ayeni dynasty. I do not have any child elsewhere.”
According to him, the Ayeni family is not in any way connected to the child and they “will never be.” Ayeni went on to say that there is no form of interaction between him and Alagwu and there could never be any form of interaction between them.
Source: The Capital Ng
When Ifechukwude Okonjo emerged as the Obi of Ogwashi-Uku in Delta State in September 2019, there was no indication that he had been convicted of a crime in the US.
Ogwa-Uku is a community in Anaocha South Local Government Area of Delta State, Nigeria’s South-South.
Mr Okonjo succeeded his father, Chukuka Okonjo, a professor whose death was announced on 13 September 2019.
Findings by PREMIUM TIMES showed that he was crowned days after the death of his father.
Chukuka Okonjo the traditional ruler
Conviction in the US
According to court documents obtained by PREMIUM TIMES, Mr Okonjo was convicted of theft in April 1997 at the Circuit Court for Montgomery County, State of Maryland, in the US.
The court documents showed that his younger brother, Onyema Okonjo, was also convicted of a similar offence on 23 January 1998.
Charges, arraignment and trial
Mr Okonjo was first criminally indicted on 20 April 1995 and summoned to appear before a judge the following day.
After initially failing to make his appearance on 12 August 1995, he finally showed up at the court on 14 July of this same year.
He was initially charged with theft and conspiracy to commit the crime with his younger brother, Onyema.
Specifically, the first count charge indicated that Mr Okonjo stole “assorted computers and computer peripheral equipment, the property of Digital Equipment Corporation, having the value of $300 or greater” between 23 January 1995 and 24 March 1995 in Montgomery County, Maryland.
According to the court document, the offence violated Article 27, Section 342 of the Annotated Code of Maryland and was against the peace, government, and dignity of the US state.
He was released on bail on “personal recognisance” after paying a $2,500 bail bond.
Then unemployed and single, Mr Okonjo resided with his elder sister, Ngozi Okonjo, at 7004 West Greenvale Parkway, Chary Chase, MD 20815, in the US.
Ngozi Okonjo, now popularly known as Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has been the director-general of the World Trade Organisation since March 2021.
At the time of the trial, Mr Okonjo was 30 and had lived in the US for nine years. He is now 57.
His brother, Onyema, was criminally indicted by the court on 18 October 1996, and a bench warrant was issued against him the same day.
By then, Onyema was 28 years old and married; he is now 55. He made his first court appearance on 14 November 1997.
His charge indicated that he committed the crime of theft and conspiracy between 28 October 1993 and 24 March 1995 in Montgomery County, Maryland.
According to the court documents, he claimed to be homeless at the time.
Like his brother, Onyema was released on bail on “personal recognisance.”
Mr Okonjo and Onyema were told that the condition of their release was that they should appear in court during sittings or their bail bond would be forfeited.
They were also told that failure to surrender themselves within 30 days after the bail forfeiture might cause them to be further charged, fined and/or imprisoned.
Sentencing
Mr Okonjo and Onyema, after their bail, separately failed to appear before the court on hearing and trial dates, forfeited their bail bonds and also “willfully” failed to surrender themselves within 30 days after the forfeiture, according to the court documents.
One of the documents indicated that Onyema left the US after being granted bail.
The court then separately charged and found Mr Okonjo and Onyema guilty of failing to surrender themselves within 30 days of their bail forfeiture.
Consequently, the court, on 29 April 1997, sentenced Mr Okonjo to six months imprisonment.
For the first count of theft of assorted computers worth $300, the court also sentenced Mr Okonjo to one-year imprisonment beginning from 4 April 1997, when the judgment was delivered.
The court documents did not indicate if the sentences were to run concurrently.
Similarly, the court, on 23 January 1998, sentenced Onyema to 57 days imprisonment.
It is unclear if Mr Okonjo and Onyema served their jail terms in the US or ran back to Nigeria, given that they had jumped bail before their conviction.
Honoured in Nigeria
In 2019, after their father’s death, Mr Okonjo and Onyema joined other princes in the contest for the traditional stool of the Ogwashi-Uku Community.
The community residents were unaware that the duo had been convicted of theft in the US.
After the contest, Mr Okonjo emerged as the community’s traditional ruler and was crowned days later.
He is now the Obi of Ogwashi-Uku, the highest traditional authority in the community.
Petition to the SSS
The conviction of Mr Okonjo and Onyema im the US became public knowledge after some community members obtained certified true copies of the court judgment.
Some members of the community subsequently petitioned the Delta State Government and the State Security Service (SSS) and accused Mr Okonjo of engaging in land grabbing, illegal arms dealings, harassment of indigenes, and formation of armed militia groups, among others.
The petition to the SSS, dated 4 October 2024 and addressed to the SSS director-general, was authored by F.O. Okolie, a law firm, on behalf of some community members.
The community members on whose authority the petition was authored included Chiedu Enwenwa, Hyacinth Okolie, Ellen Adigwe and Bruce Ugo Emordi.
In the petition, the community members claimed that Mr Okonjo, Onyema and others recruited some unnamed gunmen from South-east Nigeria into the community’s vigilante security outfit.
They alleged that the recruited gunmen were being used to forcefully take over people’s landed property and also to commit violent crimes such as kidnapping and murder.
They also claimed that the duo and others were using police operatives to intimidate community members, alleging that the issue had earlier been reported to the police authorities in Nigeria and that no action had been taken.
They expressed fear that, given the current tension, the community was on the verge of being thrown into war and a breakdown of law and order.
The community members, in the petition, appealed to the SSS to investigate all the community vigilante groups and palace guards as well as the alleged kidnap and murder of some indigenes of the community.
They also called for an investigation into Mr Okonjo’s alleged “illegitimate dealings in prohibited firearms” allegedly imported into the community by gunmen.
Palace speaks
On 31 October, a PREMIUM TIMES reporter contacted Ifeakanachukwu Emordi, Mr Okonjo’s palace secretary, to seek to speak with the traditional ruler about the allegations.
After dismissing Mr Okonjo’s conviction for theft as untrue, Mr Emordi promised to get the traditional ruler to speak with our reporter on the phone.
Minutes later, Onyema phoned our reporter and claimed, without evidence, that the petitioners were not representatives of Ogwashi-Uku.
Regarding the allegations of land grabbing, he claimed that all lands in Ogwashi-Uku are held in trust by the traditional ruler in accordance with the community’s traditions and customs.
“That’s our land tenure system. Obi doesn’t have to grab any land that is under his custody,” he said.
He said the SSS should be allowed to investigate the allegation of recruiting gunmen into the community’s vigilante groups and harassment of indigenes.
When quizzed about the conviction of the traditional ruler in the US, he responded, “We are not aware of that.”
Our reporter again requested to speak with the traditional ruler. Onyema promised to inform the traditional ruler and revert. But he did not get back to the reporter.
When contacted again on 6 November, nearly a week after, he claimed Mr Okonjo was busy and not available to speak on the issues.
Onyema said he might get another person to respond before the end of the week if the traditional ruler remained unavailable.
When our reporter informed him that court documents shows that he too was convicted in the US, Onyema retorted, “I can’t speak to all of these issues.”
“We will get back to you to try to clear the air as far as any of these issues are concerned,” he added.
Commission of enquiry
In response to the petition, the Delta State Government set up a commission of enquiry to investigate the allegations against the traditional ruler, particularly on land-related issues.
The commission is expected to begin a public hearing on Thursday and conclude it on 20 November 2024, according to an announcement from the Secretary to the commission, Gabriel Eze-Owenz, a lawyer.
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SOURCE: PREMIUM TIMES
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