- Seeks custody of 3 children
The Customary Court of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja yesterday adjourned till today to hear an application by a beauty queen Precious Chikwendu seeking access to the four children she bore for a former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode.
She filed the application through her counsel, Mr Abiodun E. Olusanya informing the court that she had information that one of the children – who were all said to be in Fani-Kayode’s custody – was injured on the head.
Olusanya 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, Miss 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 cohabitation 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 cohabitation, 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 November 29, 2021 “Application for issuance of civil summons/plaint” against Fani-Kayode (the respondent) in suit FCT/CCK8/01/043/2021 filed by her counsel Mr Abiodun E. Olusanya.
The Nation
