Precious Chikwendu, former wife
of Femi Fani-Kayode has broken her silence over her affair with the former
aviation minister.
In a tell-all statement, the
former beauty queen detailed her relationship since she met Fani-Kayode, how he
often turned her into a punching bag, even while pregnant.
She revealed an instance when
Fani-Kayode hit her mother in the head, while trying to shield her from further
beating.
She denied Fani-Kayode’s accusations that she was a gold digger or an adulteress.
Chikwendu also accused him of
lying to her that he had divorced his wife Regina, before she agreed to marry
him.
“I want to state clearly that my
marriage to FFK was based on false pretense as he lied that he had divorced his
last wife, Regina.
“I found his marriage certificate
in 2016 during the EFCC raid at our then home.
“When I confronted him about
this, he said that he is about starting Regina’s divorce process and added that
he had not seen her in the last ten years”.
The most troubling part of her
statement was that Fani-Kayode has mental challenges, who was abusive of her.
According to her, in his unstable
mental state, he often called the triplets in her womb, cockroaches, as he
punched her freely, in the stomach:
“While I was pregnant with the
first child and later the triplets, FFK was habitually beating and mostly
punching my stomach.
“Anytime he was angry and moody,
describing my unborn babies as cockroaches or “a thing” that he will knock off
my belly.
“In one of these attacks and
kicking on my tummy, my late mom and my sister visited, and they threw
themselves in between us to stop him from further attacks.
“In his anger, he hit my mum in
the head. After that, FFK ended up accusing my sister of assault and got her
detained at a police station for coming in-between his punches and me”.
Read the full statement:
OFFICIAL STATEMENT ADDRESSING ALLEGATIONS SURROUNDING MY JUST ENDED
MARRIAGE TO FEMI FANI-KAYODE (FFK).
My name is Precious Chikwendu, a
graduate of the University of Calabar, Miss Untied Nation 2014, and a Nollywood
actress since 2007. Naturally, I maintain a calm disposition when in crisis,
being goal-oriented and not a talker of any sort. But I am now forced to
respond to these allegations for my children, well-being, and career path.
As a student, I lived a
moderately comfortable school life with self-sustaining businesses. Upon
graduation, I got a job in a construction company. I bought my first car as an
undergraduate and have chains of businesses before meeting FFK. I was also into
modelling and had several endorsements as an International beauty queen, in
addition to my job; these are verifiable facts.
My Financial Status Before
Marriage
I am from a middle-class home
where my Dad provides for all my needs. Moreover, I have always been
industrious and a provider rather than a collector. Before I met FFK, I worked
in a quarry/construction company in Calabar and lived an extremely comfortable
life. I could afford cars within my means, caring for my parents and siblings.
I built my parents a house in Nanka, my hometown, in 2012 before heading over
to Kingston to win the Miss United Nations title in 2014
The Gold-Digger
I am tagged a gold-digger due to
misconception, ignorance and some people relying on deliberately planted
falsehood. It is unfortunate that when I met Femi in 2014, he already had his
bank accounts frozen by the EFCC, and they remain frozen to date. He opened
another bank account when he joined the Goodluck Jonathan campaign team in
2015. The present government initiated an investigation based on the campaign
funds source. And his campaign account was frozen again. Common sense can show
that he may have been financially constrained while I was with him.
My relationship with Femi at the
time we met was more of me caring and having a deep concern for him while he
was UNDER EFCC PROSECUTION. However, it later transited into a supposed
romantic relationship that became oppressive, obsessive and abusive. Femi
turned into a control freak that tried to control even the very breath that I
took.
Femi posed as a lonely and
abandoned man who gave his all to his loved ones but was left alone in his
moment of need (EFCC trial). He spoke bitterly of a Regina, who he said fled to
her country, abandoning him when President Yar’Adua’s government ordered the
EFCC to investigate him for money laundering. The court also mentioned her
name.
Marriage Under False Pretence
I want to state clearly that my
marriage to FFK was based on false pretence as he lied that he had divorced his
last wife, Regina. I found his marriage certificate in 2016 during the EFCC
raid at our then home. When I confronted him about this, he said that he is
about starting Regina’s divorce process and added that he had not seen her in
the last ten years. He further explained that he never fancied her and that
their relationship was that of a mother and son kind. At the time I left, he
was technically married to her former wife.
On Regina’s claim that she gave
her consent for me to be married to FFK, this is a ridiculous and blatant lie.
How could she have permitted a relationship she only found out about through
social media? This event happened precisely on FFK’s birthday when he
deliberately leaked my pregnancy photos after another argument between us and I
had to leave the house. He did that to show the world that I was pregnant with
his baby. Suffice it to say that we had agreed to keep the pregnancy private
before then.
FFK’s Aggressive Behaviour
While I was pregnant with the
first child and later the triplets, FFK was habitually beating and mostly
punching my stomach. Anytime he was angry and moody, describing my unborn
babies as cockroaches or “a thing” that he will knock off my belly. In one of
these attacks and kicking on my tummy, my late mom and my sister visited, and
they threw themselves in between us to stop him from further attacks. In his
anger, he hit my mum in the head. After that, FFK ended up accusing my sister
of assault and got her detained at a police station for coming in-between his
punches and me.
Whenever I resist his humiliation
and beating, he will deploy his bodyguards to wrestle me down. In most cases,
he called CSP Aisha Yusufu, the then Divisional Police Officer (DPO) of Asokoro
Police Station. Who usually would come with her team to harass, handcuff,
arrest or lock me behind the counter for hours until Femi was satisfied that I
have been punished enough. My siblings were locked up countless times as well.
He would always boast of his connections to the government and the system,
saying nothing any member can do.
During one of his domestic abuse
with the DPAisha and her team from Asokoro police station, FFK instructed that
they handcuff and strip me Naked. It was done in the presence of his domestic
staff, bodyguards and attached VIP police officers. They injected me with a
strange substance, and I lost consciousness. I woke up in a facility, which
they later told me is a hospital, not knowing the number of hours or days I
stayed there. My triplets were six months old at that time.
As I say this, I am very afraid
for my life. He keeps threatening me at every turn. I have since petitioned the
Police but nothing has been done yet but I’m only trusting God.
The Breakdown of the Marriage
The intervention of family
members and FFK’S social circle was one hold back factor that kept me in the
relationship much longer. Notwithstanding how dangerous, especially from Femi’s
Mental Health challenges. I wanted to leave the marriage a long-time ago but
could not due to the fear factor of FFK. He often lectured me on the crime of
passion and how I will not live to tell the story or being looked at by another
man. The fear of Femi losing it and hurting my children in retaliation for my
leaving did not help matters. Moreover, the death of both my parents within a
short space of time made me more vulnerable.
The verbal and physical abuse
increased upon my refusal to have another set of children he had instructed and
further used his doctor. I planned to travel overseas for delivery during my
pregnancy, a decision that made Femi uncomfortable. The doctor told lies that I
have certain conditions like placenta previa in my early first trimester and
made it unsafe to travel. Other events happened where bullet shells were
planted in my shop, my siblings accused and locked up by SARS, and my passport
seized by Femi also hindered me from travelling. I concluded that something was
not adding up and decided to go for a second medical opinion. I had no medical
condition and was misdiagnosed. FFK planned all these incidents to stop me from
travelling overseas.
I had a myomectomy on 31st July
2020; FFK disapproved of the doctor; after my surgery at the Hospital, he
instructed the domestic staff not to give me food or drinks. Upon discharge, I
arrived home to his usual stage-managed drama. I had no strength to deal with
that at that point, so I picked my handbag and left with nothing to allow him
to calm down, considering his mental health challenges.
He shortly sent messages through
friends to tell me never to put a foot in his property, or he would get me
locked up for good. It was how he ended the marriage; I left with only the
clothes I wore from the Hospital. He never allowed me to park my properties or
take my children.
FFK Media Story About My Parents
FFK claims presented on social
media that he took care of my parents for years, got my siblings jobs and a
residential apartment. The truth is that FFK asked for my mother to be brought
to Abuja to stop me from my frequent travels to the East. He could not get me
to pay less attention to her as my mom and I was inseparable. My mother was already
down with cancer a year before I met FFK. I had provided for her needs to help
tackle it but based on her religious convictions, and my mom refused to get rid
of her lumps. By the time she got to Abuja, her cancer had spread.
Not denying that FFK made
contributions to her chemotherapy and some hospital bills, but I funded most of
the money from my savings. Furthermore, FFK was locked up in detention then. On
burying my mom, FFK made his contribution, which Rev Okey Onyemachi received,
my mother’s brother. It was mostly money to tend to his high-profile guests and
give them a comfortable sitting area. My family catered for the rest of the
burial expenses.
My Dad was in Abuja for treatment
in late November 2019 and passed on on 7th January 2020. The apartment FFK
claimed to have rented on social media was the house I rented in December 2019
before my Dad’s birthday. It was because FFK refused to bring my Dad down to
Abuja to care for him. He claimed that my father’s people are responsible for
the lack of financial flow, according to his prophets.
Sadly, my Dad only spent a week
in the house I rented for him before he got critically ill on the night of his
birthday. After that night, my Dad was rushed to a hospital, where he eventually
passed on.
To date, none of my siblings got
even a single referral from FFK for anything, let alone a job. As an in-law,
FFK contributed 1.5 million Naira to my Dad’s burial and later said that the
money was part of my dowry. He grudgingly did it to allow (traditionally) him
to mourn my Dad as an in-law. He had earlier refused to do the rights after our
introduction in 2015, after my first son’s birth.
Allegations of Cheating
My years with FFK were completely
shrouded; I walked around with at least four police officers and three
bodyguards. Friends avoided me even in church as I had a heavy security
presence even during offerings and thanksgiving. He perceived every schoolmate,
ex, cousin, or male voice as a potential lover over the phone.
I have never had an extramarital
affair as dubiously alleged. On the contrary, FFK brought strange women into
our matrimonial home at the slightest opportunity.
Claims of Cruelty to My Kids
It is laughable to read the
claims of cruelty from someone who has never raised any of his kids physically
since I have known him. How can I be cruel to children that I took lots of
pains to bear, to make an ungrateful man who complained about having no sons
happy? Both births were IVF conceived, and I took needles for months before and
after. I take my kids to school, church, playgrounds and shopping and every
other thing that could make them happy as kids. I practically shared my days in
his house on my social media pages out of boredom. People who followed loved my
boys’ love, as these memories still linger on my social media walls today. I
love my kids, and they mean everything to me.
I run an NGO that deals with
education for the less privileged. I started with primary and secondary school
projects as miss United Nations. My love for children has been traceable from
time. My accuser is the one who deceived innocent children with a scholarship
scheme that turned out to be a fraud. He offered scholarships to three hundred
students for top schools in the Benin Republic through my foundation in May
2020.
He did not send One kobo to any
student or school. To uphold his honour, I went through the detailed vetting of
another scholarship scheme in a better school. FFK abandoned these children and
plan after making an empty promise and putting them through complete admission
procedures. Suffice it to say that the school and I still bear the
responsibility of seeing these kids through.
I tried unsuccessfully to see my
kids even at natural grounds, but Femi made it impossible. I refused to go back
to the house to see them as every corner of the house, Toilets, Bathroom,
Kitchen, Sitting room, Bedroom, the Gate, front of the House reminds me of Femi
beatings, stripping me naked in presence of his workers, instructing his Body
guards to beat me or using the Police to wrestle me down before putting
handcuffs.
These were the demons I have been
battling including ignoring his lies and fabrications.
An Indictment on his not so
Intelligent Person
Honestly, I have just bared my
life of over 20years to the world, but then again, what can I say? I take
complete blame for my wrong judgment on the choice of FFK based on empathy and
naivety. However, I cannot help but wonder if all these frivolous claims of my
indecent lifestyle as portrayed by FFK is not an indictment of his insecure
mind.
You cannot have a harlot for a
wife and showcase her to the world almost every day with the best captions and
poetry to go with it if she is not a fantastic soul. Except for cause, he hides
the demonic atrocities he committed while trying to appear as an excellent
husband. The FFK I lived with will have the said videos shared if any
infidelity claims are distantly valid for ALMOST SEVEN YEARS OF MARRIAGE!
After two heartbreaks, I made one
wrong decision, believing that an older man will love and make me happy. All I
did was love FFK, fight for him and gave him sons he never had. I did
everything for him – I was his barber, editor, nurse (before and after he had
his presumed COVID 19), chef, image-maker, and stylist without limit. Physical
and verbal abuse was what I got for all these sacrifices. Lies, all sorts of
inhumane treatment, and now attempting to keep my tender age children away from
their mother.
Precious Chikwendu
Abuja, Nigeria. 11/03/2021
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