Three days ago, one of Ivie Edobor's lawyers, Emeka Ugwuonye, revealed Mr John Edobor had been fired by his workplace Zenith bank and is currently standing trial for the attempted murder of of his estranged wife. (Read here) .. John Edobor has now come out with hos own side of the story, along with some heavy accusations. Read below.
My Ordeal in the hands of Ivie
Ivie
Angela Edobor who lives in Surulere, Lagos, got married at Saint
Dominics Catholic Church, 356, Herbert Macaulay Street, Yaba, Lagos on
Saturday, 30th June, 2007 at 12:00noon. We did the traditional marriage
ceremony at the father’s compound at Abisogun Estate, Alafia
Sari-Iganmu, off Lagos Badagry Expressway on a Thursday, 28th June,
2007. And as well as the marriage Registry in Lagos at Ikoyi on the 17th
January, 2007 (all the marriage documents are attached).
Ivie
and I are blessed with three lovely children (three girls – senior 9
years old; second – 7 years and 4 years old respectively). Ivie and I
had lived together all these years in peace devoid of rancour and
acrimony together and love.
Ivie Edobor once
worked for Stanbic IBTC Bank Plc until she resigned her appointment on
the 11th July, 2011 in view of the fact that she was been accused of
collecting kickbacks from the bank's contractors in order for her to
perform her duties as administrative staff. She exhibited these traits
of fraud, corrupt practices and financial misappropriation which led to
her termination and dismissal from Econet (now Airtel)
…
Prior to marrying me she once worked at a prominent multinational mobile
company (Econet now Airtel) where She was dismissed for lack of
integrity due to lies in addition to her serial borrowing from her many
colleagues.
When Ivie resigned from Stanbic
IBTC Bank in 2011, (find attached her resignation letter) in order for
her not to be at home doing nothing, we both had a discussion on her
nest line of what she could do and then she suggested that she wanted to
start importing diapers from the United Kingdom (UK) and start
distributing and selling in retail which I obliged her by giving her
initial start-up capital of about N500, 000 (Five Hundred Thousand
Naira) and as the year progresses, we noticed that the business was
moving I had to borrow moneys from friends and with my personal savings
to inject into the business which amounted to about N8million (Eight
Million Naira Only).
Every year, it was our agreement that
audit be done to ensure that, the business is actually doing well and to
make sure tax is paid to Government as well. This was actually adhered
to in 2012 and in 2013, I noticed that Ivie had refused to call the
accountant to come audit her books. I kept insisting on the audit to be
done since she knows the accountant and have his contacts and moreover
where we were staying in Ajah at No 76, House 3, Street X, Abraham
Adesanya Estate, Ajah, Lagos, was not far from where the accountant was
actually living in Ajah.
This persisted until
in September 17th 2014 when strange faces of people I had never met or
spoken with before kept coming to knock at my gate as early as 5a.m.
every morning to demand for their moneys from Ivie and when the amount
was added together that came knocking and requesting for their moneys it
came to about N25,204,250 (Twenty Five Million, Two Hundred and Four
Thousand, Two Hundred and Fifty Naira Only). Please see attached the
list of people she was owing and these people are available if you which
to speak with them. Most of them said Ivie told them that her dad was
sick and she needs money to treat her very sick dad. Just like she has
said on FB that I dont give her money....
Despite
all these borrowings, Ivie could not account for what the sum of N25,
204,250 was spent on and till date she has not being able to explain in
clear terms what the money was used for. She could not explain to me or
her family members how she spent such huge sum of money. It became clear
of recent after two years that she actually borrowed these moneys to
save face from shame since Mr. Matthew Agbaire who she was dating was
threatening to blackmail her if she could not part with money anytime
Matthew Agbaire requested for any sum to use for himself.
On
11 October 2014, one of the ivie’s creditors known as Tolu and her
family members, came to the house when I had gone for a training,
dragged my sister (Otekpen) out of the bathroom when she was having her
bath and assaulted and humiliated her. The matter was reported by me to
the Nigerian Police Station, Ogombo, Ajah, Lagos and the matter was
recorded in crime diary S/NO 80, Time 2055 HRS. (go and verify for
yourselves).
When the threat of violence was
becoming too much, I advised ivie to relocate to her father’s house
temporarily till a time that the entire or substantial part of the
indebtedness would have been defrayed and the threat of violence most
especially on the children of the marriage would stop.
After
Ivie left our matrimonial home as agreed, we were still meeting on
Fridays to Sundays at the matrimonial home in Ajah to discuss our family
affairs. And we were during this period still performing our marital
responsibility to each other. (evidence to support this assertion with
printed copies of correspondence between us and her pregnancy.)
In
November 24th, 2015, Ivie was pregnant for me with twins which she
confirmed severally in our chat (see attached for your perusal and
confirmation the Ultra Sound Scan Report for the LMP and EDD) and the
pregnancy grow for 5 (five) months and the babies had become 5(five)
months old in June.
Since Ivie was living in
Surulere despite my several plead to the father to allow Ivie and the
children to come join me in Yaba notwithstanding that Ivie and I looked
for the apartment in Yaba for us to live as one family again, Ivie
deceded to stay back in surulere and every Fridays she would come to
sleep with me while on weekdays she kept sleeping with Matthew Agbaire
who is married with his own kids.
Until May
2016, when my kids where on midterm break, and they came to spend the
holiday with me in Yaba that two of my children told me that, every
night, one uncle Matthew was always coming to the house to sleep in
mummy’s room till the next day and he will buy them suya. And when I
asked Ivie she initially denied until I showed her a video clip of what
the childthat she then admitted (see attached our chat for your perusal)
and at this time Ivie was still pregnant.
Since
Ivie knew the consequences of her action she begged and pleaded that,
she would need to go for confession which she did in June 5th, 2016 at
Saint Dominic Catholic Church, Yaba. There she promised the reverend
father Felix never to go back to such life again. Two days later
I received a phone call from the house help that, Matthew came again to
take her out and did not return until late in the night. When I asked
Ivie she denied and she beat up the house help as well as collected her
phone from her.
At this time Ivie had threatened she was going
to flush the babies since I am doubting the paternity of the twin.
Because, I asked Ivie if you are pregnant for me and still kept sleeping
with another man (Matthew Agbaire) so who own the babies? We would need
to do a DNA test to actually know who their father is.
Three days later,
Ivie and Matthew Agbaire went to abort the babies since she was worried
that I kept insisting on the DNA of the children. When I asked ivie
what happened to the babies she said she could not face the shame of
having bastard children which am not ready to father and this kept me
worried up till now since Ivie could kill children that were already
formed (7months) babies.
I spoke with the
father who lives in Orile, in Lagos and even went to see him about it
and all I got from the father was he will talk to Ivie and two of her
aunties and I tried calling her mother who lives in UK but she would not
pick her calls and as well told my family members about it too.
On
what happened in June 19th 2016, incident that got ivie admitted at
Tokin Hospital for broken leg, contrary to claims by Ivie, she actually
got injured during a scuffle between myself and Matthew Agbaire who
brought out a hammer his tool box in his car to fight me when Ivie at
sighting me started shouting ole, ole for the security men to come and
kill when Matthew brought her back home past one (1:00a.m.)
in the morning while the children were left at home with a girl of
about 13years old to care for them while Ivie and Matthew went to a
hotel to have sex. Ivie in an attempt to allow Matthew to run away was
holding on to my hands backward and in the course of my struggle, Ivie
and I fell to the ground and then, Matthew wanted to seize the
opportunity to slam the hammer in his hand on me which I dodged and then
I noticed he was not relenting the second time after first strike which
actually hit ivie, and then she shouted, when saw him trying to raise
his hand again, I had to row over ivie and stood on my feet before the
security men came to rescue the situation. Matthew quickly rushed her to
a hospital in Surulere perhaps the same hospital the twin was aborted
by Ivie and Matthew.
Ivie has consistently told
people that I have not been taking care of the children school fees
(find attached the receipts of my children school fees till date for
your perusal) and that because they are girls and not boys that was the
reason I drove her out of the matrimonial home. This statement is
reckless and unfortunate because I love my daughters and in several
instances I had used prominent woman who are role models like Okonjo
Iwala to buttress my stand on this even to her. I do know for sure my
children will grow up to be greater than men and their knowledge will be
sort after around the world. She has push out false information to the
public for her to continuously gain sympathy from the public, press,
bloggers, the civil society and human rights activist.
In
another case, she has said I came prepared with the intention to kill
her that night she was injured by Matthew, with a knife and of recent a
dagger and crowbar or wheel spanner to attack her. And I keep wondering
with the inconsistency the tools she keep naming that I used. The fact
is, I came into Lagos that night (18th June, 2016) from school in Ile -
Ife at about 9p.m.
with my school bag and book in it and my car was parked at the stadium
where I drove to her house which is a stone throw away from her house
and I did not get Yaba before going to see her that night since we had
agreed to meet that night. Matthew was the one who works for a
construction company and had his tool box where he brought out his big
hammer he used on Ivie.
It will shock you to
know that Ivie was married to one Mr. Benedith Jatto on the 17th
December 2002 a document she used in her NYSC and equally in her former
place of employment while she was working with Airtel Nigeria. I got to
know and see all of these when this issue came up and a copy of the
document is available for your perusal. And up till date that married
has not been dissolved which means ivie is legally married to two men.
Ivie
is doing all these for her to hide her shame and the face of Matthew
Agbaire a father of two who is still married to his wife, and work in
Centrix Allied Limited who is the brain behand her termination of the
twin and the her broken leg. It is unfortunate that Ivie is acting this
way because as my wife and mother of my beautiful children this is not
the way I planned for us.
As a responsible father I have consistently played my role and provided for them to the best of my ability all that they needed.
So
please tell me how I went wrong.... You can imagine my shock to find
out that I am her 2nd husband...was it wrong of me to have encouraged
and empowered my wife? Please tell me which man will take it...she only
shouted out so the issue of the children she killed will not come
limelight....
More photos, screenshots of some messages and medical reports below...
More photos, screenshots of some messages and medical reports below...
