Biola, the wife of Tunde Ayeni, former chairman of the board of directors, Skye Bank Plc, has addressed the paternity scandal against her husband.

Ayeni has been enmeshed in a messy paternity tussle with an Abuja-based lawyer named Adaobi Alagwu.

Alagwu alleged that she is the mother of his child. She also claimed they were lovers in 2019.

Ayeni, however, denied allegations that he fathered any child with the lawyer.

In an interview with ThisDay, Biola defended her husband of 31 years, arguing that he does not have a child outside of their marriage.

She said due to Ayeni’s popularity, he has “become a target for traducers” and “runs girls” who use “diabolical” means to seduce “unsuspecting and naive victims”.

“Because of his prominence, he is always in the news. When a man is successful you know, he will have a lot of enemies and they would write a lot of things about him,” she said.

“When you have made a name, you will become a target for traducers. And that is when it’s good for you to know whom you are married to. It is important to know the kind of person you are married to. Thus no matter what anyone says about him, it doesn’t bother me.

“It may appear as if my husband’s name is always associated with messy affairs with one lady or the other, but it doesn’t change my opinion of my husband and you cannot convince me that my husband is a flirt because I didn’t marry him as a flirt.

“Even if you show me all the evidence of how many women he has been with. Why? Because money makes a man misbehave. Friends make a man misbehave, and strange women seduce men with all manner of Jazz (juju) to make a man misbehave!

“Rather, I pity my husband as an unsuspecting and naive victim of the level of desperation and diabolical tendencies of this runs girl he got associated with.”

Biola also took a shot at Alagwu, who she accused of being a “desperate gold digger” who thinks she can become “Mrs Ayeni by merely pinning a child on her highest-paying victim”.

“I am not surprised the so-called girl is parading herself to be who she is not; by so doing, it becomes clear that she is a desperate gold digger and a slut who thinks she can become Mrs Ayeni by merely pinning a child on her highest paying victim,” she said.

“And it is quite surprising that despite her degree in Law, she needs somebody to tell her that a child is not a marriage certificate! Neither does a child offer her security to maintain a fake lifestyle that she has become accustomed to.

“And to now think that the child does not belong to my husband makes her claim even more embarrassing. Anyway, she has been warned through our lawyers to desist from parading herself as Mrs Ayeni because she is not and she will never be as the Lord lives.

“My husband and I are legally married. As for her calling her child by my husband’s surname, Ayeni is many. The child is not Tunde Ayeni’s child. Period! When she is tired of calling the child the borrowed name, she will change it to her father’s name.”