Fani-Kayode’s Ex-Wife Reveals She Conceived Four Babies Via Artificial Insemination
PRECIOUS Chikwendu, former live-in partner of erstwhile Aviation Minister, the controversial Femi Fani- Kayode, has shocked the public with the revelation that the tough talking politician was unable to get her pregnant, but resorted to use of technology.
Currently, Chikwendu, a former beauty queen, is seeking custody of the three kids. The Customary Court of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja, has adjourned till Wednesday next week to hear an application by Chikwendu, seeking access to her children, whom she bore for the former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode.
Chikwendu filed the application through her counsel, Abiodun Olusanya, informing the court that she had information that one of the kids was recently hospitalised and needed her attention. Olusanya also told the court that the ex-minister had been served via substituted means, as ordered by the court.
In the suit marked FCT/CCK8/01/043/2021, Chikwendu told the court that Fani-Kayode never consummated his six-year relationship with her. Chikwendu said she was forced to remain celibate during the co-habitation and alleged that the four children she birthed in her affair with Fani-Kayode were conceived via artificial insemination.
She prayed the court to declare that she was never married to Fani-Kayode because, contrary to his claims, he neither paid her bride price nor performed customary or statutory marriage rites with her. She averred that in the course of their co-habitation, she found out that despite Fani-Kayode’s denial, his marriage to his third wife, Regina, subsisted. She accused him of assaulting her several times, ordering his bodyguards to strip and lock her up in her room. Chikwendu (the petitioner) made the averments in her “Application for Issuance of Civil Summons Against Fani-Kayode (the respondent)”, in suit FCT/CCK8/01/043/2021, filed by her counsel.
She is seeking the following reliefs: An order declaring that there was no customary marriage between the Petitioner and the respondent, despite their six-year co-habitation, under the Nanka, Orumba North, Anambra State of Igbo native law and customs. Alternatively, assuming by the evidence during trial the court finds that there was a customary marriage between parties, an order dissolving the connection between the petitioner and the respondent forthwith. Also, an order granting the petitioner access to and custody of the four children of the co-habitation between th parties, especially during their academic calendar
“An order ordering the respondent to be continuously responsible for the academic, medical, clothing and welfare of the four children of the co-habitation and an order ordering the respondent to release and return the petitioner’s property.”
The property includes the petitioner’s certificates and documents, trophies from the United Nations pageantry, Red Range Rover, registered under her Foundation’s name and the Foundation’s certificates and the petitioner’s photographs. Others are the petitioner’s mother’s burial videos and souvenirs, mother’s certificates and documents, the petitioner’s clothes and personal belongings, including gadgets, sewing machines left at the children’s play area and petitioner’s fridge and kitchen gadgets for her food company, Mommy Pee Foods.
Chikwendu said her relationship with Fani-Kayode, her former “estranged co-habiter,” was full of “woes, lies, deceits, quarrels, assaults, battery and domestic violence, lack of trust and absence of love, public disgrace and shame and absence of sex due to the inability to sexually perform and intolerable behaviour of the respondent.”
She contended that she never entered into marriage with the respondent, that the respondent has continuously behaved in such a way that the petitioner cannot reasonably be expected to continue to live with the respondent any further or formally enter into any form of marriage with him.”
