By Blessing Udeobasi
Following the death of popular gospel singer, late Osinachi Nwachukwu who allegedly died of domestic violence, mother of the deceased, Oriaku Nmadi has revealed all that the daughter passed through in the hands of her husband.
Mrs Nmadi while speaking to members of the Nigeria Association of Women Journalists said that Osinachi’s husband shut the door against her family as soon as he married her daughter.
While advising single women to be careful when selecting spouses, Mrs Nmadi revealed that when Peter came for her daughter’s hand in marriage, he presented himself as a pastor from Anambra State. But shortly after the marriage, shut his doors to Osinachi’s family “and completely possessed her”.
“My daughter went through hell in the hands of Peter. My daughter had four children and I could not go for omugwo for any of the children because her husband would not want to see any member of Osinachi’s family.”
Recalling one of the occasions when Peter maltreated her daughter in her presence, Mrs Nmadi said: “That Sunday after the church service as we were waiting for Peter Nwachukwu, he came out and ordered his children into the car and drove off, leaving me and my daughter behind. I was shocked because it was a well-wisher that gave my daughter that car Peter was driving.
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“Instead of Osinachi to complain, she rushed out and got a taxi that drove us home.”
She said there was another car a fan gave Osinachi but her husband took it from her and that every time the couple had a misunderstanding, Peter would abandon his wife and drive off.
“On one occasion, the children inside the car were saying bye-bye to their mother; he never allowed the wife to enjoy the fruit of her labour.”
“Osinachi believed in the Biblical injunction that marriage is for better and for worse and that was why she endured the marriage thinking that Peter Nwachukwu would change, but unfortunately my daughter died.”
She then said that Osinachi’s children are now with one of her daughters.
