Tragic: How Businessman Allegedly Killed Wife’s Lover In Ogun

A 32-year-old businessman, identified as Ezekiel Igbokwe, has been arrested by the Ogun State Police Command for allegedly killing his wife’s lover, Victor Olatundun.

Igbokwe allegedly killed the deceased on Wednesday, July 27, at Peace Lodge on Itura Street, Awa Ijebu, Ijebu-North Local Government Area of the State, at about 12AM after he caught with his wife on their matrimonial bed.

Igbokwe and his 28-year-old wife were among the 23 suspects paraded at the Ogun State Police Command headquarters, Eleweran, Abeokuta, on Thursday, August 12 for various offences ranging from murder to illegal possession of firearms and ammunition.

Narrating his ordeal, the suspect who deals in electronics,  said;

“I travelled to Onitsha on July 25, and when I came back on July 27, I met a man inside my room making love to my wife. Then we started fighting. The man was stronger than me. When I saw he could overpower me, I got a cutlass in my toilet and dealt him blows in the hand and neck. On the way to the hospital, the fuel in the car finished and he died.”

He stated that he cut the man whom he had never met before, out of anger without intention to kill him, adding that he never suspected that his wife was having an extra-marital affair with anyone.

PUNCH Metro learnt that Igbokwe and his wife, Juliet, have three children aged nine, seven and five.

Juliet, who sobbed intermittently, said her alleged lover had been pressurizing her for a relationship for some time.

She explained that she had always told him she was married, but the victim never gave up until he ended up at their matrimonial home on that night.

Juliet, who said she sold snuff, said Victor was her supplier and he pestered her for six months before she finally gave in.

She said she suspected that the deceased used a charm on her, as she could not explain how it all happened.

“He had been disturbing me that he wanted to marry me, but I said I was married.

“On the day of the incident, I really can’t say if he used a charm on me. All I know is that he called me that he wanted to see me and I told him not to come; he knew my house and when he came, I didn’t know what happened.

“He used to come and deliver snuff to me in the house. On the day of the incident, he told me he was coming from somewhere and that it was already late. He wanted to sleep in our place till the next day. He didn’t know that my husband was away. He tried to sleep with me, but later he didn’t” Juliet said.

According to her, her husband whom she married in 2005, never took good care of her and the children. She also mentioned that her husband leaves the house for months whenever they quarrel.