By Tosin Olatokunbo
A former managing director of the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC Timi Alaibe has denied having an amorous relationship with the wife of the late Micheal Usifo Ataga, the chief executive officer of Super TV, who was killed last week by his girl friend in Lagos.
Ataga was stabbed to death by Chidinma Ojukwu, a 300 level student of UNILAG who have now been arrested by the police and, has already confessed to the crime.
An online report, not The Source had claimed that Alaibe, a PDP governorship aspirant in the 2020 governorship election in Bayelsa state, who lost his wife, Alaere few years ago, is having an affair with the wife of the deceased.
The former NDDC boss has now denied the report, which he said is from the pit of hell. According to him he never met the wife of the late Super TV boss, neither is any love affair existing between both of them. According to him, the report that both have a love child, is also not only true, but an attempt by the pedlars of the said report to tarnish his hard earned image.
Alaibe said in a statement, on Sunday, that his initial “reaction was to ignore this nonsense, but in the past 24 hours, I have been bombarded with telephone calls and messages from friends within and outside the country. Why? In the early hours of Saturday night, someone had sent me an anonymous, demonic-sounding social media post linking me with the wife of Michael Usifo Ataga, the late chief executive officer of Super TV.
“The insane, unknown writer of the unthinkable falsehood stated that Ataga’s wife left the husband to be my mistress; and that the late Ataga had physically confronted me; and that the woman is a household name among my friends. The writer added that the woman is also my “official mistress” in “social circle and class.” The writer went ahead to state that I already have a child from the woman whose DNA matches mine.
Some people were out to destroy his reputation, he said, noting that “I do not understand why a human being with blood in his veins would sit down and conceive such destructive lies just to rubbish not only my person, but to smear the integrity of the woman in question.
“Up till this moment, I do not know the woman called Mrs. Brenda Ataga; not to talk of having any relationship with her. I wonder why the husband to someone I have never met would confront me about his wife; or how a woman I do not even know would have a child for me!
“This is utter rubbish because I have never had any business with this woman or the late husband at whatever level. That is the truth as God knows it.
He has a strong warning for those behind the attempt to smear his image.
Alaibe said “I am warning whoever is behind this devil-driven, destructive agenda to stop it. Don’t ever think you are hidden. God is watching you. Circulating ruinous falsehood in the social media about innocent persons just to rope them into a crime or dent their image will do you no good. I challenge the person behind this tar-brush to make public any verifiable evidence to corroborate this falsehood. My conscience is clear.”
