Former chairman of the board of directors at the defunct Skye Bank Plc Tunde Ayeni is a victim of strange women, his wife Biola Ayeni has said about the paternity scandal involving him.
Mr Ayeni has since denied fathering a child with an Abuja-based lawyer named Adaobi Alagwu.
According to Alagwu, she and Ayeni were lovers in 2019.
Addressing the controversy publicly for the first time, Biola said in an interview with ThisDay that her husband of 31 years does not have a child outside of their marriage.
She claimed her husband has been a “target for traducers” because of his popularity.
“Because of his prominence, he is always in the news. When a man is successful you know, he will have a lot of enemies and they would write a lot of things about him,” she said.
“When you have made a name, you will become a target for traducers. And that is when it’s good for you to know whom you are married to. It is important to know the kind of person you are married to. Thus no matter what anyone says about him, it doesn’t bother me.
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“It may appear as if my husband’s name is always associated with messy affairs with one lady or the other, but it doesn’t change my opinion of my husband and you cannot convince me that my husband is a flirt because I didn’t marry him as a flirt.
“Even if you show me all the evidence of how many women he has been with. Why? Because money makes a man misbehave. Friends make a man misbehave, and strange women seduce men with all manner of Jazz (juju) to make a man misbehave!
“Rather, I pity my husband as an unsuspecting and naive victim of the level of desperation and diabolical tendencies of this runs girl he got associated with.”
Biola described Alagwu as a “desperate gold digger” who thinks she can become “Mrs Ayeni by merely pinning a child on her highest-paying victim”.
She added, “My husband and I are legally married. As for her calling her child by my husband’s surname, Ayeni is many. The child is not Tunde Ayeni’s child. Period! When she is tired of calling the child the borrowed name, she will change it to her father’s name.”
