A mild ‘baby daddy’ drama occurred a few days ago at the Abia State
University Teaching Hospital (ABSUTH), Aba, as two men – Luke Ogbonna
and Hon. Enyioko, a politician, claimed paternity of a set of
quadruplet, all boys.
The two claimants were said to have had an intimate affairs with Mrs.
Nnenna Joy Ogbonna, mother of the quadruplet, at different times.
According to SunNews, Luke Ogbonna was the legitimate
husband of Mrs. Nnenna and their ten year old marriage had been blessed
with five children but due to his dwindling financial fortune Mrs.
Ogbonna reportedly began to look elsewhere to make ends meet.
In the process, she allegedly found new love in Hon. Enyioko, a politician from Asa in Ukwa West Local Government.
Not too long after, Mrs. Ogbonna became
pregnant and the result of the scan test carried out on her indicated
that she was carrying a quadruplet.
In an attempt to avert the looming
trouble ahead, one of her friends was said to have advised her to
register for ante natal at a government hospital where she would be
protected in case of any trouble and she gladly complied.
registered with the name of her new lover instead of her husband’s. Nurses on duty at Ward 4 where she was
admitted and who had known her earlier five children raised some eyebrow
over the new name but she insisted on having it. Just as Luke who was unsuspecting of her
motive always paid her regular, visits, so also was Hon. Enyioko who
often brought various gifts.
told her husband to stop visiting her at the hospital because of a
concocted spiritual attack she said she used to have each time Luke
visited her.
Thursday when doctors delivered the woman of a set of quadruplets. Luke
stormed the hospital with many of his relations to inform ABSUTH
authorities that he was the bona fide father of the new born babies and
that nothing should happen to them.
had left, Hon. Enyioko, whose two marriages were said to have allegedly
crashed as a result childlessness, also came with his own group of
people claiming paternity of the babies.
bewildered workers of the teaching hospital that he had spent millions
of naira to do an in-vitro fertilization that made the woman to be
pregnant and that he was the one that arraigned for the set of
quadruplets.
hospital management had put the babies out of the prying eyes of the two
‘fathers’ for safety reasons until they were discharged from the
hospital.
