Jasmine Okafor, a content creator and adopted daughter of veteran, Mr Ibu has finally broken her silence on her drama with the family.
Early this year, Jasmine and Mr Ibu’s son were rearrested by the police and were awaiting court charges. However, Jasmine shut down the reports by sharing a video of her and actor, Deyemi Okanlawon.
Two weeks later, the Nigerian police confirmed that it had re-arrested her son, Daniel Onyeabuchi for allegedly defrauding the actor of the sum of N55 million.
The investigation unearthed text messages via WhatsApp between Jasmine and Daniel detailing how they conspired and hatched their criminal plans. It was also exposed that the two had a sham marriage at the Ikoyi Magistrate Registry with plans to escape from the country to the UK where they intended to settle with their proceeds of crime.
Jasmine had reacted to the news, sarcastically stating that the figures she had been accused of were wrong as she had stolen 1 billion, and was responding live from Kiri Kiri prison.
In a follow-up post, she had announced to social media judges and magistrates that are comment section was now open to them.
Now taking to her YouTube page, Jasmine shed light on the incident as she narrated how she met the actor, who was a friend to her late father and had acted as a father figure to her following his demise.
Jasmine stated that she wouldn’t describe the past 3 months as hell, rather she would want to give thanks to God in all situations. She stated that she didn’t want to speak up at first, but she had to tell her truth because she felt she had been abused and used.
“I want to say thank you to everybody, especially those who had faith in me, believed in me, and patiently waited till this day for me to speak out.
The past three months I can’t say it has been hell, but in every situation, I want to give thanks to God. I said I wasn’t going to talk about this issue until Daddy (Mr Ibu) gets back on his feet and glory to God he has been discharged and recuperating. A lot has happened and I would like to shed more light on how I got involved and how things got to this point.
I am not talking because I need people to sympathize with me. I am talking because I feel like I have been abused, and used and I hope you guys are patient enough to listen to the entire story because it means a lot to me.
My dad passed away so many years ago, he was a Nigerian army and was a good friend to Mr Ibu, who is now a father figure in my life. When my dad passed on, Mr Ibu was at the burial, and ever since then has played a father figure role in my life. Fast forward to 2018, I left the country, I left Nigeria to look for greener pastures, and from there I relocated to Cyprus where I was studying law.
Fast forward to 2020, Mr Ibu started writing me on WhatsApp, requesting financial assistance and this was surprising to me because before I left, he was doing well and was almost at the peak of his career. He now opened up to me that he was sick and was in Abuja, while his wife was in Lagos I requested to call her and she told me he had left the house for over two years.
I didn’t want to speak but things have gotten to a point that I have to speak up my truth”.
She captioned the emotional video with, “Thank you all for your patience, love, and prayers, during this trying period! I have declined lots and lots of interviews simply because I wanted to be able to tell my story exactly the way it happened, sequentially, with facts and evidence. I have uploaded the full video on my YouTube and I will be uploading more evidence there if need be. Obviously, in times like this silence isn’t golden, silence is consent. And I will never consent to allegations based on envy, sentiment, and zero fact
I will be posting bit by bit here”.
Recall that it was alleged that Jasmine was in an intimate relationship with Mr Ibu and it was confirmed when an audio leaked online of Mr Ibu admitting to it.
In the alleged audio, Mr Ibu was conversing with a woman, who questioned if he was aware that Jasmine was only using him for fame and was now sleeping with his son following his illness.
This corroborated his wife’s claim during an online rant that her husband was sleeping with Jasmine, an allegation which they both denied.
