A Nigerian businessman Mr. Anthony Nnabuife Elue has accused, Hon. Ndudi Elumelu, member-elect, Aniocha/Oshimili Federal Constituency, in Delta State of attempting to defile his teenage daughters after succeeding to snatch his wife from him.
Nnabuife who decried denial of access to his children orchestrated by his wife of 10 years, Winifred Nwakuso Onwuka in connivance with Ndudi Elumelu in his petition to the Police recounted how the later entered into an amorous affair with his wife while he was abroad in search of greener pastures and succeeded in convincing her to divorce him…
Anthony Nnabuife Elue who was divorced in 2013 by his wife of 10 years with whom he had two daughters alleged that the collapse of his marriage was due to the “inappropriate relationship” Elumelu was having with his wife.
The petition was copied to the Governor of Delta State, the Clerk of the National Assembly and the director general of the National Agency for the Prohibition Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP).
In the May 13, 2019 petition to the Delta State Commissioner of Police, Elue alleged that in 2010 and 2011, he “noticed some unusual closeness between his lawfully married wife” and Ndudi Elumelu.
According to the law firm representing him, “when Elue tried to talk to Ndudi Elumelu who is his brother from the same Ezechima clan over his unwarranted closeness with his wife, which is an abomination in their community, Elumelu started threatening his life, boasting that he will influence his wife to divorce him.” The petition was also copied to the Governor of Delta State, state chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), a former deputy governor of the state as well as the member representing the constituency in the House of Representatives.
The petition added that true to his threat, Elue’s wife divorced him. “In 2013 when he returned from his London business journey that he embarked on in 2012 and discovered to his shock and chagrin that his lovely wife who was living happily with him before he left the country for London in 2012 in pursuit of greener pastures for his family wellbeing had gone to court to divorce him,” the law firm stated in the petition signed by M. N. Ugwuiyi.
On seeing this, Elue “made efforts to access his lovely children in accordance with the divorce order of the court which unequivocally gave him the right to have access to his children whenever he wishes.”
It, however, alleged that Ndudi Elumelu, “in connivance with his ex-wife, Winifred Nwakuso Onwuka, refused him access to his children which necessitated him filing a contempt proceeding to enforce the right of access to his children before an Abuja high court wherein Justice O. O. Goodluck made an order which made it possible for his two daughters to spend a weekend with him sometime in the year 2017.”
Explaining the basis for the allegation of indecent assault on females against Elumelu, the petitioner stated that during a weekend in his home in 2017, his two daughters confided in him that “Hon. Ndudi Elumelu usually put blue-films and be dancing naked in their presence.”
The law firm alleged that “on many occasions, he (Elumelu) will be chasing them around inside the room while he is naked.” According to the petition, the children “reported this indecent assault on them severally to their mother who will always treat the matter with glove hands and our client is now troubled over the state of his daughters’ lives and whereabouts since then till date is unknown to him.”
scanned copies of the peition:
The firm urged the Police to:
- Arrest Elumelu before his children will be defiled at their tender ages, and
- Initiate criminal prosecution of the lawmaker-elect.
Elumelu was elected to represent Aniocha/Oshimili Federal Constituency in the House of Representatives during the last general elections on the platform of the PDP. He was earlier in the House between 2011 and 2015 as chairman of the House Committee that had oversight functions over the National Integrated Power Project (NIPP).
