Fani-Kayode Exposes Ex-Wife, Precious In Court
- Says she didn’t give my kids breast milk
- Employed 12 nannies, excluding supervisors, nurses
- Seeks dismissal of her N800m suit for lacking in merit
Former Minister of Aviation, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, has asked the Federal High Court in Abuja to dismiss the N800 million suit instituted against him by his estranged wife, Ms. Precious Chikwendu for lacking in merit.
A counter-affidavit filed by his team of lawyers had Fani-Kayode telling the court that his ex-wife, a former beauty queen, deprived his children of breast milk on the account of having to preserve her shape.
The embattled former Minister further told the Court that this deprivation of breastfeeding was “coupled with a contrived medical condition which she claimed would not permit her to breastfeed them”.
In a 23-paragraph affidavit he personally deposed to opposing the suit, Fani-Kayode said it was not true that the Applicant (Ms Chikwendu) was violently separated from the four children they had together.
The former Minister told the court that rather, “she elected to leave her matrimonial home and consciously abandon the children, in order to optimize without restraints, her extra-marital and inordinate sexual escapades”.
According to him; “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 said; “Despite the enormity of the Applicant’s brazen amoral acts, several entities had been made to her, in returning home or visiting the children, but she completely rebuffed all. In a recent letter which was written to her Solicitor handling the matrimonial case, his attention was drawn to the fact that there has been no time that the Applicant was deprived physical access to her children, in as much as she has been speaking to them on phone and doing video calls with them.
“The Applicant only plays the victim and cries foul of deprivation of access or separation from her children, when indeed, she does not deeply desire to be with them.”
The former Minister urged the court to dismiss the suit for lacking in merit, as well as for constituting an abuse of judicial process, maintaining that the affidavit the Applicant filed against him before the court contained “concocted facts, presented by subterfuge, in order to mislead the Court and frustrate the administration of justice”.
He further said; “I know that the instant suit is nothing but a smokescreen intended to avoid the longs arms of justice and to malign me. There is no merit whatsoever in this suit, which was filed in abuse of court and judicial process. It is in the interest of justice to dismiss this suit for lacking in merit.
“I conscientiously depose to this counter-affidavit from facts within my personal knowledge, and in good faith, believing same to be in accordance with the Oaths Act currently in force”, he said.
Fani-Kayode’s estranged wife had approached the court to enforce her fundamental human rights, urging it to issue a restraining order against the former Minister.
Ms. Chikwendu, in the suit she filed through her team of lawyers led by Mr. Abdul-Aziz Jimoh, also cited the Inspector General of Police, the Deputy Inspector General of Police (DIG) Force CID, Commissioner of Police FCT, and the OC Legal (CID) FCT Command, CSP James Idachaba, as Respondents in the matter.
She is praying the court to restrain her former husband from using the other Respondents to intimidate or harass her in any form whatsoever, pending the hearing and determination of an earlier suit marked No CV/372/2021, which she filed to take custody of the four children she had for the former Minister.
Chikwendu told the court that she is apprehensive of an imminent violation of her fundamental rights in the actualization of threats to her life by the erstwhile Minister and in the face of the refusal of the 1st to the 3rd Respondents (IGP, DIG Force CID, and CP FCT) to investigate her genuine petitions of threat to life against the 5th respondent (Fani-Kayode).
She is among other things, seeking a declaration that an invitation letter dated March 10, 2021, which was written by the 4th Respondent (Idachaba) amounts to a rise by the 5th Respondent in cahoots with the 1st to 4th respondents, to stultify and interpose in Suit No CV/372/2021 and to orchestrate a contravention of her fundamental rights as enshrined in Part IV of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999 (as amended) by imminent unlawful harassment by invitation, interrogation, molestation, and detention.
The suit had since been assigned to Justice Inyang Ekwo for hearing. – With Vanguard reports
