Nigerian Twitterati are having a field day mocking Nigerian-Romanian broadcaster and radio talk show host, Ifedayo Olarinde better known as Daddy Freeze, after a high court ordered him to pay N5m for committing adultery with one Benedicta Elechi.
The OAP was ordered by the High Court sitting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State to pay the money to Paul Odekina who was married to Elechi at the time the adulterous act was committed.
As the news of the fine filtered online, Nigerians have latched on it and with over 8,300 tweets pushed Daddy Freeze into the number one trend in the country.
Apart from generating condemnation from the tweeps, some seized the opportunities to ‘hawk’ their wares using ‘Daddy Freeze’ as hashtags, while others used the moment to show their jocular sides.
One @Preciou15711284 in her reaction said: “Daddy freeze, men that sleep with married women should never know no peace till they die”.
Frank Cruise/@frank_uriah noted that Daddy Freeze, who is a known critic of tithing, as finally paid his tithe.
He finally paid his tithe!
Daddy Freeze fine 5m for adultery! pic.twitter.com/GRmJx9fzE1— Frank Cruise 🇺🇲🇳🇬 (@frank_uriah) March 6, 2021
For poet Ifiok Obong Etuk, @IfiokobongEtuk, the Daddy Freeze’s case showed the high cost of adultery.
He wrote, “So after what happened to Daddy Freeze, I strongly believe adultery is expensive”
The presiding judge, Hon Justice Akpughunum, while ruling on suit no PHC/403MC/2012, in which Mrs Benedicta Odekina is the Petitioner/Cross Respondent, while Mr Paul Odekina is 1st Respondent and Cross Petitioner while Ifedayo Olarinde (Freeze) is the Co-Respondent, award the N5m fine against the OAP as “damages for depriving Odekina amiable consort of his wife”.
The document read in part, “The sum of N5,000,000 is awarded against Ifedayo Olarinde (the 2nd Cross Respondent to the Cross Petition) as damages for depriving the Cross Petitioner of the amiable consort of his wife (Petitioner/1st Cross Respondent) and for injury suffered as a result of his adultery with the Petitioner/Cross Respondent.
“An Order of injunction is hereby granted, preventing Ifedayo Olarinde ― the Co-Respondent to the Cross Petition ― from having access or dealing whatsoever with the children of the marriage until they attain the age of majority.”
The Judge then proceeded to dissolve the marriage between Paul and Benedicta due to Benedicta’s adulterous act with Daddy Freeze.
“An order of Decree Nisi is hereby granted, dissolving the marriage contracted between Paul Ochenu Odekina and Benedicta Nkemdilim Elechi-Agunabo on the 26/1/2002 at the Chaplaincy of the Holy Rosary CIWA at Port Harcourt on the ground that the marriage has been broken down irretrievably by reason of the Petitioner/ Cross respondent having committed adultery and intolerable behaviour of the Petitioner/ Cross Respondent which the Respondent cannot be expected to live with the Petitioner/Cross Respondent,” the document read.
The judge also awarded Paul custody of the children produced in the marriage and Benedicta has been ordered to hand over the children’s passports and birth certificates.
Meanwhile, Daddy Freeze has confirmed the development but noted that he would release a statement over the matter.
