If ever there was a cautionary tale of what happens when lust meets ambition and is fanned by unrepentant greed, the scandalous relationship between billionaire businessman Dr. Tunde Ayeni and his estranged side chic Adaobi Alagwu tops the list. But behind Adaobi's youthful charm and calculated seduction lies the true puppet master: her mother - a woman who redefined shamelessness in her quest to milk Ayeni for all he was worth.
From day one, Adaobi’s mother played her cards with surgical precision. She wasn’t just complicit; she was the architect of the madness. Her own daughter, in her mid 20s, was being ushered into the bed of a man nearly 60. Not only did she approve, she facilitated. She left her husband’s matrimonial home in Lagos and moved into a house in Abuja; a house paid for by Ayeni. What kind of mother does that? One whose moral compass had long been sold for luxury.
Whenever Ayeni caught Adaobi in her many acts of betrayal, guess who came kneeling, literally, to beg? Her mother. One such incident was during a stay at a hotel on Ogunnaike Street, Ikeja GRA; Ayeni had stumbled on a damning message on Adaobi’s phone from another man. Her mother didn't just call’ she showed up to beg in person. That became her modus operandi. The go-between. The enabler. The fixer of her daughter’s mess, all while keeping a straight face and her hand out for money. Several times she encouraged Ayeni to come sleep with her barely 23-yr old daughter in her one bedroom in the stepfather’s house in GRA Ikeja, Lagos - any sane mother would have disapproved of this act but not Adaobi’s mother.
She brought her own domestic disputes with her second husband to Ayeni like he was a family therapist. She’d cry, plead, and urge him to intervene, to settle fights. It was all a sham. And when Ayeni tried to pull away, tried to reclaim his life, the mother-daughter duo would storm his office begging for accommodation, pleading for help. When he gave them apartments in Abuja, (DD38, Lakeview estates, off Alex Ekwueme, Jabi, Abuja and No 48, Mike Akhigbe Street, Jabi, Abuja) they squatted like entitled royalty - refusing to vacate even after formal eviction notices.
(One of the many payments to Adaboi’s mother)
But Adaobi’s mother wasn’t just dealing with Ayeni. She knew about all her daughter’s other men, and abortions. She collected gifts, money, even cars from these side dealings. The greed was so thick, it blinded them.
They didn’t realize when Ayeni began to play along, strategically documenting everything. They believed they were the hunters; they didn’t realize they had become the prey.
History will record how much of a horrible mother Mrs Nneka Amam is and how she drove her daughter further aground in disrepute in her greedy guest for material needs and how this woman had become so reprobate that when Ayeni even finally requested for the return of the bride price madam mother sought to encourage him to do it as an ‘arrangement’. What a shame of a mother! She sat back and watched as her oldest daughter was defiled by several men, top of which is Ayeni and begged him to pay for her second daughter’s school fees and upkeep in America (yes, you read that right) ‘Engr’ Deborah’s education was funded by her sisters ‘sugar daddy’ with the full consent of her parents.
Even Adaobi’s father, a disgraced self acclaimed chief would also share in this shameless show of disgrace and tarninh the respected Igbo tradition all in a quest to take money for his daughter. Not even the obvious humiliation meted on them by Ayeni on the day of the so-called traditional marriage (that was held in a house Ayeni got for ‘Chief’s’ wife in Abuja) where Ayeni demanded no pictures be taken was enough to signal to him this was going to be an outing of disgrace for him. A day he should have been proudly celebrated and shown in honour became one where he was hidden, in the same house that Ayeni entrusted to Adaobi’s mother to stay whenever she was in Abuja - talk about a family with no pedigree!
With all these clear signals, instead of pulling her out, he aligned with his ex-wife to keep the money flowing. They rarely agree on anything, but when it came to draining Ayeni, they became a perfect team.
The delusion peaked when Adaobi and her mother started blaming Ayeni’s wife for the negative press, falsely claiming she orchestrated the media publications. But what they didn’t know? It was Ayeni himself who approved every single story. He was done hiding. Done protecting their image.
This saga isn’t just tabloid fodder, it spiraled into a full-blown legal war. Adaobi and her legal team once floated a fabricated DNA result that falsely claimed Ayeni fathered her daughter. It didn’t take long for holes to appear in the story, and Ayeni demanded a proper test. When the court got involved, Adaobi started to dodge appearances. She was absent not once, not twice, but three times. Ayeni, in contrast, stood tall in court, present at every sitting to clear his name.
In March 2025, the Customary Court in Dawaki, Abuja ruled definitively: there was no marriage between Adaobi and Ayeni, and he was not the father of her child. Yet even with that landmark judgment, Adaobi and her media team refused to back down. They doubled down on the theatrics, and began leaking intimate photos and videos.
Whilst they kept ranting and spewing their nonsense about Ayeni’s wife and his associates (these are people who didn't even dignify her with an acknowledgement , rather than focus on the man dealing with her, she wallowed in delusions of grandeur; such a misplaced mindset of a lowlife), did they ever stop to wonder what stories he was telling the wife and his associates about the Alagwus?
How much he needed to get them off his back? How embarrassed he was about them? How he was being blackmailed on the pregnancy and subsequent release of bride price pictures??!
How he was not the father of the child? How he had never been to the so-called child’s school and would have if he was the father, how he only ‘sometimes sneaks to go visit Ada and subsequently her mother only at very late hours so as not to be seen because he needed to manage them. How much more deceitful could he have been to make them see beyond their noses that they were shedding their dignities for money?
In between court battles and media attacks, Ayeni served cease-and-desist letters to Adaobi and even went as far as writing to the the Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS) to void any international passport presented by Abuja lawyer, Adaobi Alagwu and her child, bearing his name. In 2024, the Ayeni Obaniwa family of Iyah-Gbede in Kogi State also issued a formal statement distancing themselves from any form of relationship with the Alagwu family.
Yet she persisted, ignoring legal warnings in favor of cheap social media clout. Meanwhile, her mother kept calling behind the scenes to beg for forgiveness, other times to request cash settlements.
Even after all the disgrace, Adaobi kept collecting money. ₦5 million monthly stipends. Appearance fees just to show up at the police station only to be repeatedly disgraced and humiliated. If that’s not the height of undignified greed, what is?
Complicit in this also was Ayeni, who told them lies after lies that his wife and other associates were responsible for the publications and then he sat back and played mother and daughter like strings on a bad guitar. He will tell them not to call at weekends or other times and they won’t, they were afraid to upset their paymaster. Not once did they sit back to ask the question how any news platform would carry so many of these stories if not authorised by the Tunde. Anyway these same ‘lawyer’ had gotten married to a man who’s legally married under the act! Talk about stupid - which now begs the obvious questions:
How can anyone, with a straight face, insist that Adaobi has a “right” to remain in Ayeni’s life — when he is, and has always been, a legally married man?
Despite all the many publications and denouncements against Adaobi; It didn't matter whatever Ayeni was telling her or paying her behind, the complications would have put off any sensible woman from a home of pedigree, but she continued to live in denial….
At the time she met him, wasn’t it crystal clear that Ayeni was someone’s husband? If Adaobi truly came from any form of respectable pedigree, shouldn’t that alone have been enough to steer her away?
If she claims to be a woman of virtue and value, then why ignore the obvious boundaries of a man’s marriage? Wasn’t her pursuit driven more by ambition than affection?
Why do her defenders scream about truth and rights, yet ignore the moral contradictions of the entire relationship? Isn’t it time they stopped romanticizing delusion and started facing the facts?
And finally — how does a self-proclaimed Igbo chief, Adaobi’s father no less, know all these sordid details and still fight for his granddaughter to claim the Ayeni name? Isn’t that not only hypocritical but an outright cultural taboo in Igboland?
Now, with their backs against the wall, they’ve gone nuclear—leaking nudes, threatening to drop explicit videos. But here’s the thing: no amount of dirt, no number of leaked clips, can erase the fact that this was always a bad script written by the greed of a mother, the desperation of a daughter, and the recklessness of a man who should have known better.
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