In September, Ivie Edobor, a Mother of three, took
to social media to accuse her husband, John Edobor, of attacking her after they
separated ways following their failed marriage. She accused him of organizing a
group of area boys to join him in brutally assaulting her, breaking her legs in
the process.
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...
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