My second wife never maltreated Walida—Father
After the interview with Walida, Weekend Trust sought out the father, Mal. Abdulhadi Ibrahim, for clarifications on some of the issues she raised. Your daughter, Walida, said you were separated from her mother before she left home. It that true? Yes, her mother has passed away. I mean even before her death, we had […]
After the interview with Walida, Weekend Trust sought out the father, Mal. Abdulhadi Ibrahim, for clarifications on some of the issues she raised.
Your daughter, Walida, said you were separated from her mother before she left home. It that true?
Yes, her mother has passed away. I mean even before her death, we had separated.
She also claimed that your wife (her stepmother) had been maltreating her, including physical assaults.
No, that’s not true. I believe she was influenced into making such statements. In reality, she received the best treatment from my wife—my wife even vacated her own bed for her. They are only stage-managing these claims, asking her to say she wasn’t okay living with us.
She also said she wants to continue staying with Ifeanyi…
How can she say that? How can we accept that? He’s a Christian and she’s a Muslim.
She also said she ran away from home by herself?
That’s not true. Even before the DSS, she confessed to being abducted by a woman named Maryam. Claiming she ran away is just a joke—it was orchestrated by them. We’ve heard all these false stories.
How long did she stay in your house while her mother was your wife?
She lived in my house. She left for her grandmother’s house, but later returned to my home.
By the time she disappeared, was she living with her grandmother?
No, she was living with me. When I came back from the farm, I was told she was missing. We searched frantically, but eventually abandoned the search, thinking she might have died. She was the one who later called me one night after Isha prayer. They gave her the phone to call me. She must be lying when she says she wasn’t living in my house before the incident.
She also said you referred them to call your brother, her uncle?
When they first called me, they said they were going to marry her off. I asked, “Where has such a thing happened before?” They asked where I was, and I replied that I was in Hadejia, Jigawa State. They asked if I was Walida’s father, and I said yes. They then told me to come because they were going to tie the knot between her and Ifeanyi. I questioned what kind of marriage that was. They insisted, so I asked their location, and they said Abuja. I told them I had an elder brother nearby in Karmajiji.
I then informed my brother, and he went there, but they played with his intelligence. He called me back, doubting their claims. I insisted that it was true. Later, I called them to complain that they weren’t responding to my brother. They then told me to ask him if he knew the SSS Estate at Karmajiji. He said yes, so they said he should go there.
Did she call you again?
No, she didn’t. When my brother met them, they asked if she knew him. He said yes, otherwise how could he come to see her? They asked if she would recognize him, and if not, what penalty he would take. He said if she didn’t recognize him, they should shoot him dead. When they summoned her and she saw him, she burst into tears and knelt down to greet him. He asked her, “Walida, do you know where you are now?” She said no. That was all that transpired. So whatever else you heard is just fabricated stories from them.
Your daughter also said that she called you three times,but you only picked the first and the last, and that during the last call, you told her that her mother was dead. Is that true?
No, that’s not true. I only informed them after I returned home, because they had called me while I was at the marketplace, seated on my motorbike.