Christina Onwuliri the daughter in-law to Ex-president
Goodluck Jonathan’s female Minister of state Foreign Affairs and later state
Education, has accused her mother in-law, Lady Viola Onwuliri of undue
interference in the affairs of her home, whereby posing herself as a decision
maker before issues of husband and wife can be carried out.
According to her, the
former Minister made herself a mini-god in the lives of her male children,
particularly her husband, Chukwuemeka Osmond Eleihe Onwuliri which makes it
unbearable for their wives to handle family issues without the widowed former
Minister’s interference.
Barely five years after
their marriage, Christina informed that it’s been war between her, the former
minister and son over her undue and unhealthy interference in the relationship
of her children’s marriages.
“Since our marriage was
contracted, my mother in-law has continually decided what happens in my home,
thereby having undue and unhealthy interference in the relationship with my
husband.
“Between 2011 and 2014,
while I was living in Port Harcourt with my husband, he physically and mentally
abused me. For example, when arguments concerning on way forward in the
marriage, he gets infuriated and physically beats me and locks me up in the toilet
for as long as he wishes,” she stated.
As informed, the current
happenings which has escalated to the very level of the daughter in-law being
locked out of her matrimonial home by her husband after being manhandled and
abused by him has been a matter of review before the Nigeria Police
and Human Rights office in Abuja.
Not only that the former
Minister allegedly influenced the reason to what made her son to lock his wife
out of their matrimonial home and took possession of her two grand children.
“In another interference of
my mother in-law, she said that my husband is not obliged to keep me in Canada
where we based or elsewhere in the world. And after this encounter with her, my
husband told me we will be visiting Nigeria in February. I had no misgivings
about it.
“When we arrived the family
house in Owerri, I noticed the presence of a Catholic priest, a serving
Honourable member of the State House of Assembly and few others that I don’t
know their names. Later, I noticed that my husband picked up a bag and was
leaving without prior information to me. Cautiously, I approached him to know
where he was going, but to my greatest surprise, he violently pushed me into a
room and locked me up.
“At that point, I saw those
men taking my children away without my consent. Then, I started screaming and
was helpless but had no option than to start breaking the window panes in the
room to get myself out. When they saw I was breaking the glasses, one of the
drivers opened the door and I came out shouting for help, and then my children
were nowhere to be found.”
Furthermore, she stressed
that they equally seized her academic papers, traveling passports, Canadian
residential documents alongside her personal belongings. A plan Lady Onwuliri
allegedly perfectly carried out with the help of the above mentioned cohorts.
Over the failed move by the
Nigeria Police to intervene into the matter, she said that the State
Commissioner of Police in Imo State withdrew his men from it, even as he tagged
it a marital issue that his commission cannot handle.
Sensing foul play in the
handling of her case, she called on the Human Rights Commission to thoroughly
investigate the matter.
In related development,
Onwuliri family went ahead yesterday morning to serve a divorce notice to
Christina, in a move to rate her an ex-wife with the threat of the rising media
reports and reactions in favour of her.
Report By: Ifeanyi Asomugha Ugwuh
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