Gospel singer Frank Edwards has threatened legal action against singer Osinachi Nwachukwu’s husband Peter Nwachukwu after alleging that he physically abused her which led to her death.
Osinachi Nwachukwu, who shot into the limelight with the hit song ‘Ekwueme’, which has been watched 72 million times on YouTube, died in an Abuja hospital.
In an Instagram live session on Saturday, Frank Edwards alleged that the late singer had an abusive husband, who regularly brutalised her before she died. He also promised to drag him to court.
“I have never had any reason to have a court case with anyone because I am a child of God, but you see this case, it won’t just go like that because she was a blessing to the world.
“I usually don’t get involved in things like this, I keep my family and personal stuff off social media, but this one hurt me,” he said.
Recounting an encounter with the singer, he said, “One time in a studio, this man slapped her in the studio just because she wanted to record the song in Igbo against his will. She does not do anything on her own.”
“She would say, please beg my husband. She was at his mercy. I didn’t know the intensity of what she was going through; I didn’t know how somebody would be jealous of their wife or claim to love.
“There are a lot of stories where people told her this and that, but what I know was that the control was too much. The other time somebody wanted me to get her for an event, and I contacted her, but she said ‘beg my husband.’”
