An upcoming musician, Gbemi Adetuberu, married to Ibadan society
lady and interior decorator, Laide, has been booted out of the latter’s
apartment allegedly for physical assaults barely three weeks after their
society wedding on November 8, 2012, at one of the Akure branches of RCCG.
It was alleged that Gbemi was
seen 20 days after the N4m wedding, beating the living daylight out of her wife
in Lagos during an event that had foreign guests in attendance.
The interior decorator was said
to have kept mum over the battery allegation but eventually did opened the
Pandora’s box after getting the nod from her lawyer. The lady confirmed that
she had been through hell in the hands of her husband.
She described her husband,
Gbemi, as a violent husband whom she had hoped would change in marriage. Hear
her: “He used to beat me even before we got married, but I believed he would
change once we got married. I was wrong.”
Claiming that she had invested
millions of naira in her husband’s musical career since they started dating a
year and a few months ago, Laide said Gbemi was not appreciative enough “to
show some seriousness in his career” to justify her investment in his life. “He
had always been interested in music, a passion that I passionately invested
money in just to please him even though my parents wanted him to be a prophet.
Because I wanted to support him, I paid almost N200,000 for him to participate
at the NIMEX exhibition held at the Muson Centre, apart from other amounts
spent on him”, she added.
At the exhibition on November
28, both had agreed that Laide would stay in the car outside the venue of the
exhibition to get some rest as she had been exhausted by preparations for the
event, and that Gbemi should join her in the car once he was done auditioning
at the event.
Gbemi was said to have been
through in less than 30 minutes after he was called on stage, but didn’t go to join
his wife in the car as both had agreed. Worried, she looked for Gbemi and found
him chatting with an usher.
Not wanting to cause a scene
however, she walked up to her husband, asked the usher to excuse her as she
wanted to talk to her husband, and both strolled into the venue of the
exhibition.
They talked briefly but Laide
said she could sense from her husband’s countenance that he was getting worked
up. Laide ignored Gbemi, who had shouted at her that they should leave the
event and go home. “He didn’t care whether we were at a public place, he
continued to raise his voice at me”, she said.
Laide said she was ashamed as
Gbemi continued to shout at her that she should leave Muson Centre start going
home. She refused to do as she was instructed by her husband and his next
action was to slap her. “I was stunned.
He just kept beating me right
there in public and astonished guests couldn’t do anything. It took the
intervention of security officials before I could be rescued from him. He
beat me black and blue. I never expected he would beat me like that in public.
I had expected that he would wait till we got home, he didn’t. He has come to
beg me, but I am afraid of losing my life because that is how he has been
beating me from time.
Even my friends warned me not
to marry him because each time he came to beg me after beating me, I always
forgave him. But I’m now afraid for my life”.
She said that her in-laws were
aware of the ugly development, but that each time she reported Gbemi, his
parents always waded in and Gbemi would always promise not to beat her
again.
She also said she reported
these beatings to some of her friends. “After the Lagos beating, I decided to
send him out of my apartment because the suffering was getting too much for me.
I reported to the police at Iyaganku in Ibadan, because he has started
threatening me via e-mails since he can’t come to my house. I have refused to
take him back but I’m still afraid he may break into my house one day to injure
me.”
However, the musician, Gbemi is
yet to tell his own side of the story.
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