Prince Abubabar Audu is the first Governor of Kogi State, a
two-time governor of Kogi State and an All Nigerian Peoples Party (ANPP)
stalwart, known to have contested the Governorship of the State in 1991, 1999,
2003, 2007, 2011, he has recently contested on the platform of All Progressive
Congress (APC) and just before he was hoping to be announced as winner
considering the election result figure which was on the bright side for him, he
complained of stomach pain and later died of alleged heart attack, there are rumors
that he was poisoned.
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Early 2009 according to family sources, the former Governor and Mrs.
Audu’s matrimonial problems started due to Gov. Audu accusation on the wife to
have attempted to poison him, to confirm her act as true or otherwise she was
asked to perform a ritual act which in the process she will be forced to swear
on her life or that of her children to show her innocence in the accusation.
Did she perform it? No, and few months back after Mrs. Audu refused
to perform a ritual in the Governor’s hometown in Kogi State, to denounce an
allegation that she planned to poison the politician.
The source said Prince Audu’s eldest daughter, Maimuna had told
Prince Audu that a former domestic staff had informed her about Mrs. Audu’s plans
to poison him. The former Governor was said to have confronted his wife with
the allegation, which according to our source, she perceived was a ploy to
break their marriage and force her out of the family home.
Mrs. Audu and her family, according to our source opted to swear
by the Quran to prove she had made no such plan, but the families failed to
reach a compromise on this.
Meanwhile another family source revealed that Habiba, an ex-wife
of Prince Audu, who died in London sometime in 2007 allegedly, went through the
same ordeal and became severely sick after she was made to perform the fetish
act at the supervision of a witch doctor. She was then forced out of their home
by the former Governor and did not recover from the strange ailment until she
died in a London hospital. Mrs. Aisha Audu has refused to be lured into
performing the same voodoo.
She then alleged that Prince Audu threatened to cause her serious
bodily harm and verbally abused her and the kids, which caused her to seek the
court’s protection.
She said "The abuse started in December ‘09 during the
Christmas vacation at the above address. We had arguments over issues of where
to have my baby because I was already over 16 weeks pregnant and also on issues
of where the kids will school since they will have to be with me if I am having
the baby here because I already started anti-natal with my GP," Mrs. Audu
wrote in her petition to the court.
Continuing, she said; "The violence continued, he got
physical by hitting, slapping, punching, throwing things at me and abusing me
and the kids verbally in front of others including my step children…."
"On getting to Nigeria, things escalated and he threatened to
eliminate me by all means wherever I go. He even refused to continue paying the
children’s school fees while school is still on. He then eventually locked me
and the kids out of the house and I was left with no option but to return to
our Glen Road residence because I was lucky to have our passports in a safe
place," the former First Lady wrote.
"Am still afraid of my life and since he has continued to
abuse and threatening me; he even used his political thugs and his other
children to make life hostile and frustrating for us which started affecting my
pregnancy badly. He vowed to eliminate me before the baby is born…" she
further alleged.
Prince Audu then was accused of Maltreating wife because he was on
the verge of taking a new wife.
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