Eko Hot Blog reports Nigerian businessman Tunde Ayeni has asked the Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS) to invalidate any international passport bearing his name presented by his ex-mistress, an Abuja-based lawyer, Adaobi Alagwu, and her child.
Ayeni, a former chairperson of the defunct Skye Bank, made the request in a letter addressed to NIS.
He has been entangled in a messy paternity tussle with Alagwu for several years.
It is the third time Ayeni publicly denies fathering a love child, a daughter, with the ex-contestant in The Most Beautiful Girl in Nigeria pageant in 2014.
Mr Ayeni denied the claims in a press statement released in March 2023 but confirmed that he was in a relationship with Alagwu that ended in 2019.
His second rebuttal in August 2023 came on the heels of his wife, Abiola Ayeni’s viral interview wherein she said God gave her a revelation about the infidelity scandal that almost wrecked her marriage of 31 years.
Addressing the scandal that almost wrecked her marriage, Mrs Ayeni said that God revealed to her that her husband never fathered a child with the ex-beauty queen.
However, Alagwu pronounced Ayeni as the father of her lovechild and adopted his name for the latter. But the billionaire magnate decisively squashed her plot, particularly the adoption of his name by her and her daughter.
The businessman, through his legal representative Dele Adesina, emphasised that Alagwu’s daughter is not entitled to use his name on her travel document, citing a lack of familial relationships between them.
In his recent letter, Ayeni’s lawyers commended him for taking a stand against a standard issue affecting wealthy individuals.
The letter addressed to Alagwu read, “We act as solicitors to Dr J. O. Ayeni and Mrs Abiola Ayeni, hereinafter referred to as ‘our clients’ and on whose firm instructions we write you this ‘CEASE and DESIST’ letter. You may recall an earlier letter we wrote regarding the relationship between your good self and our client dated the 30th of June 2023.
“In the course of one of the conferences held at the Police station, we consider your narrative, which resulted in your alluding to your daughter with a United States Passport No: (withheld) in the name of Omarosa Abimbola Ayeni as our client’s daughter to be highly disrespectful, disingenuous, and to say the least, unacceptable to our clients. It is surprising to learn that you have credited this remark.
‘‘Despite the well-published series of disclaimers of fatherhood by our Dr J.O. Ayeni, you could still dishonestly be making such unacceptable and untruthful remarks in your desperate attempt to confuse the unsuspecting public in respect of the fatherhood of your daughter, which our Dr J.O. Ayeni vehemently denies.”
Ayeni is a Nigerian lawyer, investor, and business magnate. He holds board positions in companies throughout Nigeria. Alagwu, on the other hand, is the Managing Partner at Airbridge Solicitors & Advisory Services, an Abuja-based law firm.
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