Churchill Olakunle, the estranged husband of Nollywood actress, Tonto Dike, has finally spoken up to address his warring wife’s viral interview in whi
Churchill Olakunle, the estranged husband of Nollywood actress, Tonto Dike, has finally spoken up to address his warring wife’s viral interview in which she accused him of domestic violence, philandering and infecting her with STDs. In the interview with Media Room Hub, the philanthropist opened up on the troubles in their marriage and shut down the allegations against him by actress. He also came, armed with evidence which includes his statement to the Ghana police, voice calls to Tonto’s nanny after she refused to let him see his son, the video of the destruction of properties at his mother’s house allegedly done by Tonto, and many more.
Excerpts of the interview below:
On Tonto’s claims that she watched Churchill make ‘every dime he has’
It is not possible. I met her two-and-a-half years ago and I have been into real estate since I was 22. When I met her, I had 4 companies. Now, I have 6 companies.
On her claims that he violently attacked her in Ghana, prompting her to seek refuge at the Nigerian Embassy in Ghana
“I picked her up from the airport a day before the incidence, June 8, 2015. We had a misunderstanding and she decided to move to a hotel. She came the next morning, I was not even home. I sent her a text that I went to a friend’s house (Wunmi). I heard she came home around 3 [or] 4 pm and started breaking everything in the house. Luckily for me, I had switched off the electric fence wire before I left the house. So, she started from the electric fence. She pulled everything down. She jumped [into] my compound and broke everything. When I got home, I had already called the police. The closest police station there was Maigina Police Station. When I got home, she was already attacking the police people. They forced the door [in].
There is something about my wife, like crisis. She doesn’t stop. She gets too temperamental due to negative energy [caused by] alcohol abuse, marijuana, anything that has something to do with drugs. When her anger starts…she uses everything around her. When she is angry, six men can’t stop her. The police couldn’t stop her. She destroyed everything. Even the police were surprised. She even spat on one of them. I had to cover up everything. I took everyone’s phone and deleted every picture. I closed everything in Ghana just because of her.
In the last interview, she mentioned that she was beaten and ran to the embassy stark naked. As soon as I saw that [interview], I requested for my own statement [to the police]. To those people saying that I ‘sponsored the police’, you can’t sponsor the Police in Ghana. After the incidence, she was locked up. I wrote a withdrawal letter. I bailed her. I told her to replace my properties, but later I just decided to withdraw everything. What she told me when I bailed her from jail was “if you forgive me, that means you are an angel.” She promised never to go back to drugs or alcohol.
On Tonto’s pregnancy/childbirth
Three weeks after the event, she took in. All through the nine months pregnancy, she was a perfect mother, till she came back from the United States with our son. Four months after she gave birth to King, she was perfect, but then she started doing drugs again. I tried my best to revive her to who she was when she was pregnant, or just immediately after she gave birth but it was a major problem. I have tried. I have somebody that monitors Tonto,that gives me updates on everything she does even when she tried to blackmail me. Even when she sent information about my manager in Abuja.
On Tonto’s claim that he hit their son, King
How can I hit King? (He laughs) No, it’s not possible. He wasn’t even up to one year.
On the scars found on Tonto Dikeh’s body, which she accused him of
The only scar I am aware of is the one on her leg. She was breaking stuff and it got to a point where she was coming towards me. Her male best friend was trying to hold her back; he was crying. She was crazy. She always breaks everything; television, kitchen utensils, dispenser. She had done this in my house, up to four times. In 7-8 months I had lost over N36million worth of proerties, but this time, it was my mum’s house. So, her best friend was trying to hold her, but she was coming towards me. He was crying, saying “Tonto stop. What are you doing? What are you doing” She thrust her leg through the glass in the staircase. That’s where she got the cut from. Anything apart from that is not real at all.
(And then he played the video from the scene, showing the damage Tonto allegedly caused. His mother could be heard speaking Yoruba, telling her son, “I am worried about your own life.”)
On Tonto’s claim that she lost her 4-months pregnancy during a violent attack by him
“There was nothing like it. I met her 6 months before she conceived and she was pregnant for another 9 months. She travelled and came back after 4 months and she was breastfeeding. She just stopped breastfeeding like three weeks ago. So, where is the pregnancy from? I don’t understand. This woman told me she was going to get everything to bring me down. She has a foundation and I have a foundation, too. I have someone in her camp that gives me updates, like how she made up all the scars on her body. She got somebody to make up the scars. The only scar was from the incident in my mum’s house. She cut herself. I am not a woman-beater. I have never done that in my life and I will never do that. She is trying everything because she knows I run a foundation and she knows the kind of person I am, she knows that maybe this young man is trying to be someone in future. She has everything planned. Her interview was 95 per cent lies. The only truth was when she said, “I loved my husband.”
On claims of infecting Tonto with STDs
Not in this millennium. The last time I heard STD was in secondary school. At this stage of my life, STD?
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