Ready To Fight, FFK’s Estranged Wife, Precious Chikwendu Drags Him To Court Over Custody Of Her Four Children
Precious Chikwendu, the estranged wife of Femi Fani-Kayode, former minister of aviation has dragged him to court, demanding full custody of their four sons.
Earlier report revealed how the duo’s marriage hit the rocks over allegations of domestic violence. Fani-Kayode aka FFK had earlier claimed that he once caught Chikwendu having an affair with a married man.
The minister had also denied assaulting Chikwendu, alleging that he covered her “madness” for seven years to protect their children.
But in a recent Instagram post on Friday, Chikwendu said she is now ready to fight back, adding that nothing would stop her from having access to her children.
Chikwendu accused the former Minister of Aviation of domestic violence. She added that he beat her up several times, including when she was pregnant, also accusing the ex-minister of confining her to a hospital when she attempted to escape.
The ex-beauty queen said this in an allegation affidavit she made to support an origination motion made available pursuant to Section 69 of the Child Rights Act, 2003.
She said she met Fani-Kayode in 2014 at the peak of her career and they soon fell in love and began living together and had four children, a son aged five and a set of triplets aged three. She said:
“From the early days of our relationship, the respondent (Fani-Kayode) has always maintained a lifestyle of utter disregard to my feelings. This was evident in the way and manner the respondent assaulted me while pregnant with our first son.
“The respondent (Fani-Kayode) kicked me severally on my stomach over a petty argument that ensued. It was my friend, Vanessa, who was around at the material time that intervened in the nick of time to save me.
“I had to leave the respondent’s (Fani-Kayode’s) house a few days after this incident. The respondent (Fani-Kayode) repeated the same act when I was pregnant with triplets. This time, it was my mother and sister, Faith, that intervened.”
The mom-of-4 further disclosed that on one occasion, Fani and an ex- Divisional Police Officer drugged her. She said after she fell in love with him and they started living together; he began displaying signs of paranoia. Chikwendu added,
“I was incarcerated at a hospital for a period of two weeks. I was separated from my six-month-old triplets and a year-old son at the time.”
The ex-beauty pageant alleged that the former minister accused her of infidelity and on several occasions locked her out of their home located on Aso Drive, Asokoro, Abuja.
The ex-beauty pageant alleged that in a bid to spite her, Fani-Kayode had been taking pictures of the children with different women and posting them on social media.
In a response filed by one Oluwafemi Popoola on behalf of Fani-Kayode, the ex-minister said he had not been properly served with the court processes and hence could not respond appropriately.
The affidavit Popoola deposed to read in part,
“Except there is service or proper service of the originating processes filed in this case on the respondent/applicant, this honourable court will lack the jurisdiction to conduct further proceedings.”
Chikwendu said,
“I was incarcerated at a hospital for a period of two weeks. I was separated from my six-month-old triplets and a year-old son at the time.”
She further disclosed and alleged that Femi had denied her access to her children for several months; hence she’s praying the court to order the ex-minister to pay her monthly upkeep fee to the sum of N3.5m for their four kids.
However, Chikwendu disclosed that the ex-minister is currently spending N1.8m on food and other toiletries and others on the four children on a monthly basis, while he spends N575,000 on their clothing.
She insists that FFK had continued to hinder her access to her children; a plot she claimed was planned by the ex-minister to force her to return to her marriage.
She said her estranged hubby had continued to deny her access to the children in order to compel her to return to the marriage.
In the picture she posted online, it appears the 31-year-old mom was in Court yesterday, March 5, with her security details and legal team surrounding her.
Chikwendu also recounted how the minister told her on numerous occasions while they were still together that she couldn’t do anything because she had no one. She wrote:
“You called me Khalesi because you knew that behind my pretty face, is a warrior that never gives up. You kept mocking me and said I had nobody but I constantly told you, I have God.
“Then the jackals thought I’m a tigress and kept off my track but still messing with my cubs. Now this Lioness is out for her cubs and wont stop till the sun stands still. Taking the sticks and stones thrown at me to build a house #boysmamaiscomingforyou #firstdayofwar #shallwebegin #warready #doingthehakka #amazonianqueen #snowhite #fairytale.”
Chikwendu also took a swipe at an Instagram user who queried her for choosing “battle instead of war.”
“Till you carry a precious first in you, and another fabulous multiple three at the same time, after too many needless and almost dying of blood cloth from multiple birth, my thyroid taken out two months after delivery and later your labor taken away from you over nothing, then I will have an answer for you,”
she fired back.