Ex-Skye Bank boss' wife defends husband over paternity claim by Abuja lawyer

<p>The wife of the former chairman of the defunct Skye Bank has waded into the paternity dispute between her husband and a former mistress.</p>, <span>Abiola Ayeni.</span>, <h2>Abiola Ayeni, the wife of a Nigerian businessman and former Chairperson of the defunct Skye Bank, Tunde Ayeni, has jumped to her husband's defence in the ongoing paternity dispute with an Abuja-based lawyer, Adaobi Alagwu.</h2>, <p>In a tell-all interview with ThisDay, Ayeni made some interesting revelations about her three-decade-long marriage to the former bank boss and reflected on the bond that has kept the couple together despite the recent paternity conflict.</p>, <p>This is coming amidst claims by Alagwu that Mr Ayeni is the father of her child.</p>, <p>The Abuja-based lawyer and the banker were lovers for a brief period in 2019, and this has been confirmed by Mr Ayeni himself.</p>, <p>However, the business titan has blatantly rejected allegations that he fathered the child of the former beauty queen.</p>, <p>The matter has nevertheless put the Ayeni family under the spotlight, and Abiola has sought to put the record straight.</p>, <p>In the ThisDay piece, Abiola, a barrister-at-law and entrepreneur, accused Alagwu of using diabolical means to enchant her husband while insisting that the flirtatious claims attributed to Mr Ayeni were erroneous and a misrepresentation.</p>, <p>She said, “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."</p>, <img src="https://cdn-fmcrawler.shalltry.com/public/prod/files/images/2023-07-30/original/4beea7e0-a69a-4636-adaa-5551decfa2e7.jpg">, <span>Tunde Ayeni, Adaobi Alagwu and Abiola Ayeni.</span>, <p>The entrepreneur said no amount of evidence of infidelity against his husband would change her opinion of him, suggesting that his fling with the mistress may have been influenced by bad company.</p>, <p>"Even