JUST IN: Fani-Kayode Escapes Death After Ex-Wife Allegedly Attempted Murder

• Fani-Kayode Escaped death after Ex-wife allegedly attempted to murder her former husband.

• In a 13-count charge dated and filed on January 7, 2022, the defendants were also alleged to have committed offenses bordering on cybercrime, intimidation to kill Fani-Kayode by use of the Internet, threat to kill one Lauretta, to cause her to leave her relationship with Fani-Kayode

EKO HOT BLOG reports that the estranged wife of a former Minister of Aviation, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, Precious Chikwendu, was on Monday arraigned at a Federal High Court (FHC) Abuja for the attempted murder of her former husband, Fani-Kayode.

In a charge filed by the Commissioner of Police, Federal Capital Territory (FCT), against Ms. Chikwendu and three others, the ex-wife was said to have attempted to stab Fani-Kayode with a kitchen knife on November 24, 2018, at Asokoro, within the court jurisdiction.

Others arraigned alongside Precious include Emmanuel Anakan, Prisca Chikwendu, and Osakwe Azubuike as 1st, 3rd, and 4th defendants respectively, while others are said to be at large.

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In a 13-count charge dated and filed on January 7, 2022, the defendants were also alleged to have committed offenses bordering on cybercrime, intimidation to kill Fani-Kayode by use of the Internet, threat to kill one Lauretta, to cause her to leave her relationship with Fani-Kayode.

They were alleged to have criminally used the internet to send abusive messages with the intent to bully, defame and harass her ex-husband.

They were alleged to have fabricated false evidence by deposing to a series of affidavits that Chief Fani-Kayode physically and sexually assaulted members of his domestic staff in inhuman conduct by causing same to be electronically published in a national daily.

Chikwendu was also alleged to have, through her Facebook page, referred to Fani-Kayode as “Mr. Short Fuse,” on December 7, 2021.

She was alleged to have published a false imputation against the ex-minister “by referring to him as a person who is sexually incapacitated and that he is not the biological father of the four children she had for him as a wife.”

The defendants, however, pleaded not guilty to all the counts, which are said to be punishable under Section 392 of the Penal Code, among others.

The prosecuting counsel, John Ijagbemi, who prayed the court for a date to commence trial, said seven witnesses would testify in the matter.

He said apart from the documentary evidence that would be tendered, electronic evidence had also been compiled to prosecute the case.

Alex Ejesieme, SAN, counsel to Fani-Kayode’s ex-wife (2nd defendant), urged the court to admit the defendants to bail based on the earlier administrative bail granted them by the police.

“Did you give them administrative bail?” the judge asked.

“Yes, we did my Lord, with two sureties,” Ijagbemi responded.

Justice Ekwo, who fixed April 27, 28, and April 29 for trial commencement, ordered the defendants to continue on the terms of administrative bail earlier granted.

He directed the prosecution to submit all particulars of the defendants to the court registrar.

However, an effort to talk to Ejesieme, lawyer to Precious Chikwendu, was unsuccessful as he refused to grant an interview.

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Recall that Chikwendu, who was accused of infidelity by the former minister, was also said to have withdrawn various civil cases filed against Fani-Kayode.

Although the duo had parted ways, the former minister said Chikwendu had always been given access to her children under closed supervision due to her alleged mental challenges which could result in hurting the children.

The former minister had also alleged that Chikwendu stopped calling the children on the telephone for about seven months now contrary to her habit in the past.

The Chikwendu’s arraignment in alleged defamation of character suit was filed against her by a former Senator, Mrs. Grace Bent, on January 24, before Justice Obiora Egwuatu of FHC was stalled due to her absence in court.

Chikwendu, an ex-beauty queen, was neither in court nor any lawyer representing her, and the judge fixed March 10, 2022, for her arraignment.

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