Femi Fani-Kayode, a former Minister of Aviation, requested the Federal High Court in Abuja on Tuesday to dismiss the N800 million action filed against him by his estranged wife, Precious Chikwendu.
In a fundamental rights enforcement suit against the former minister, the woman sought N800 million in damages.
The suit named the Inspector-General of Police and a number of Nigerian police officers as respondents.
The Deputy Inspector-General of Police, Force Criminal Investigation Department (FCID), Commissioner of Police, Federal Capital Territory (FCT), and CSP James Idachaba, Officer-in-Charge, Legal (CID), FCT Command were also named as respondents in the lawsuit.
During the pendency of the lawsuit for custody of her four children, she accused the respondents of intimidating and harassing her.
She is asking the court to stop the IGP and his officers and men from intimidating and harassing her in any way while her claim for custody of the children is heard and decided.
Fani-Kayode, on the other hand, requested the court to reject the claim for lack of merit in a counter-affidavit submitted by his lawyers.
He called the application a misuse of the legal system.
The 23-paragraph supporting affidavit produced by Precious, according to the ex-minister, was created and provided by subterfuge in order to deceive the court and thwart the administration of justice.
He said: “I know that the instant suit is nothing but a smokescreen intended to avoid the long arm of justice and to malign me.
“There is no merit whatsoever in this suit, which was filed in abuse of court and judicial process.
“It is in the interest of justice to dismiss this suit for lacking in merit.
“I conscientiously depose to this counter-affidavit from facts within my personal knowledge, and in good faith, believing same to be in accordance with the Oaths Act currently in force.”
Fani-Kayode argued that his ex-wife chose to leave her matrimonial house and willfully abandoned the children when it came to the purported separation from her children.
The ex-minister added: “As a fact, it is not surprising that Precious is capable of such reckless abandonment, because whilst she was with me in the house, she employed 12 in-house nannies to cater to the children, excluding supervisors and nurses who equally attended to them.
“She did not at any time extend maternal care to the children, for the reason that she had a medical condition which deprived her of any filial bond with them. She deprived the children of the natural sucks or breast milk, also on account of the need to preserve her body shape, coupled with a contrived medical condition which she claimed would not permit her to breastfeed them.”
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