Nwobodo disowns children with former wife

Former Governor of the old Anambra State, Senator
Jim Nwobodo, has disowned the children from his former
wife, saying they are not his flesh and blood.
Nwobodo equally accused the two surviving children from
his first marriage, Chukwudi and Nonso, of stealing the
corpse of their older brother, the late Ifeanyichukwu
Nwobodo, who died recently after battling with cancer.
Ifeanyichukwu’s burial, which was scheduled to hold on
Friday, was aborted after Nwobodo and the deceased’s
siblings disagreed over a burial site.
While the father insisted that the body would be buried
outside his compound, the children maintained that the
grave must be within the residence.
To compound the impasse generated by the row,
Ifeanyichukwu’s corpse was not available for burial – it
was gathered that his siblings relocated the body from the
mortuary to an unknown destination, in order to prevent it
from being interred in a grave dug within the compound of
a newly erected bungalow which Nwobodo built after the
son’s death.
Nwobodo broke his silence on the matter while addressing
journalists at his house in Amechi, Awkunanaw, Enugu,
on Tuesday.
In an emotion-laden voice, the former governor stated his
own side of the story.
He said, “This is not really a very happy occasion for me
– at my age, I should be talking about peace and not to get
involved in something like this.
“Ifeanyi was my first son and unknown to us, myself and
my wife, his family hid him.
“When we got to know that he was sick, we were very
worried, we made sure he was taken to the best cancer
hospital in the US.”
Continuing, he revealed that trouble started soon after
Ifeanyichukwu died.
“From the day he died, I started planning for his burial.
Because of politics, I felt that I should bury him before
the primaries.
“Chukwudi and Nonso (Ifeanyi’s siblings) came to see me
here and I told them that the burial will be in two weeks
time, that they should come back so that we could plan for
it.
“As I am talking, I have seen neither Chukwudi nor
Nonso till date.
“Their sister, who came back from US and called me to
say that she is back, as I am talking to you, I have not
seen her.
“You start to wonder- what kind of children are these?”
he added.