Mr Sola Wiwoloku, a Nigerian businessman based in Italy says it is untrue all the allegations levelled against him by his estranged wife that he took over their jointly owned properties in Nigeria and that he committed bigamy by marrying another woman while they’re still legally married.
Mrs Veronica Bolaji Wiwoloku had in a recent publication accused her estranged husband of deceptively appropriating their joint investments and properties in Nigeria for himself for which she owned a lion share. Mrs Bolaji Wiwoloku in the publication reeled out figures of the amount she contributed to their joint venture.
But Mr Wiwoloku said there is no iota of truth in his estranged wife’s allegations.
“The house my wife is staying as we speak, has been built for the past twenty years; she and her mother had charm buried there. That is why for twenty years, I have not slept in that house, although I have stepped in there. If I am taking the property from her or tussling with her over it, I should be the one living there and sending her out.
“How can she say her money is more in the properties acquired? We do business together, the family business was registered 50-50 shares. Ask her where she got the money from. I believe in being fair, When you have a company and you have 50-50 shares, what becomes of the proceeds from it? Even the (12-acre) land she talked about, people are there working for her now, farming vegetables. If I have taken it from her, people wouldn’t be there working for her.
Besides all these, Who brought her to Europe? If I didn’t bring Bolaji to Europe, would she be here today, saying she is the owner of all that we jointly laboured for? It would interest you to know that the man of earlier marriage who left her because of childlessness retired recently as a principal of a secondary school in one remote village in Ekiti State.
“Our property in Sango, near Lagos, she has without any fear registered in her name alone, even though the money was from proceeds from our company. I actually gave her the money to buy that land and expected her to register it in the children’s name, but as I don’t care so much about material things. So I didn’t make any fuss about it.
“I have endured this slavery of a marriage for this long because of the love of my children who I wish to be there while they are growing. Moreover, whenever she felt I might be overburdened by her maltreatment, and leave, she would threaten to go and tell a lie on me to the
police. She would always brag that Europe is a nation that listened to women and that they will believe whatever she said because they would think a wife wouldn’t lie on her husband.”
Mr Wiwoloku said she actualized the threat about ten years ago when in the bid to help the economy of the nation Nigeria and to alleviate the growing rate of unemployment of our youth, I invited a group of investors into the country, one of which wanted to build a world class specialist hospital in the Country.
“Believing in the good of my Israel, I took them home to the Osemawe of Ondo land, who was so pleased with the proposal and entertained them lavishly with some of our best cultural warm welcome.
“In return for which the said organisation
invited his Royal Highness for a visit to Europe in order to further seal the arrangement.
“But, to the wonder and amazement of all that was involved, Bolaji (the estranged wife) was distraught with the good developments, she travelled to my home in Ondo to seek an audience with the king, where she told all manner of unthinkable lies to discredit me and my intentions. That was the end of the laudable idea that would have been of benefit to thousands of people both in Nigeria and Europe.”
The man added that she went further to his place of work to tell a lie regarding a
project that his NGO was funded to carry out in Nigeria.
“Thankfully the lie didn’t take long to
be uncovered, because the project which she claimed was a hoax was completed
successfully. And to cap the shamelessness of Bolaji, she was fighting to go and represent me at the commissioning of the Primary school, which was the project in issue. At that time, she made so much fuss as she is currently doing. This has been her style of blackmailing me in order to have her ways. These are the reasons I eventually left home in 2019 when I realised that my health was being affected by the prolonged unhappiness that I have endured in the so called marriage. The marriage was more of servitude than a home where a man is supposed to be respected. I was treated with so much disregard and ill treatment even in the presence of the children.
“I have been leaving separately from her for two years now, her sudden claims that we are husband and wife is her usual drama, because she has been bragging about in town that she was better off without me.
“There are so many things I have to say but I would not put them in the papers because of my children.
“On her claims that I’m currently married to another woman, I say she is only interested in making my life miserable. I am not married to another woman. I actually met a God fearing woman to whose family I got introduced in our customary way of promise. Even that too has been annulled customarily because Bolaji kept calling, harassing and threatening the gentle lady.
“She has equally been sending several audio messages, cursing me and my relatives, even my late mother and has also been threatening to kill or maim me.
“This woman who has threatened to send kidnappers and assassins after me is truly capable of doing anything, I’m using this medium to call out for help,” Mr Wiwoloku said.
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