Photo: Popular on Air Personality, ‘Daddy Freeze'
On Air Personality, Ifedayo Olarinde popularly known as ‘Daddy Freeze’, is to pay N5m for committing adultery with his lover, Benedicta Elechi.
This development has seen Daddy Freeze who has been critical on the lifestyle of religious leaders with his #FreeTheSheeple movement, trending on Twitter.
On February 18, 2021, a High Court sitting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State ordered Daddy Freeze to pay the said amount to Paul Odekina, who was married to Elechi at the time the alleged adultery was committed.
In court documents with suit No. PHC/403MC/2012, Mrs Benedicta Nkemdilim Odekina is the Petitioner/Cross Respondent, while Mr Paul Odekina is 1st Respondent/Cross Petitioner and Ifedayo Olarinde (Freeze) is the Co-Respondent to Petition/Cross Respondent.
They ordered Daddy Freeze to pay N5million for committing adultery, I never knew there was penalty for adultery in Nigeria this country keeps surprising me daily
— Uche (@Uche_swish) March 6, 2021
Concerning this Daddy Freeze’s court case, he is not being fined five million naira because of sleeping with another man’s wife. The five million naira is for damages because the marriage has been dissolved as a result of the adultery and the husband is now in custody of the kids
— FOREVER (@forevercfr) March 6, 2021
According to pulse.ng, the presiding Judge, Justice Akpughunum ruled that Benedicta’s husband proved his case of adultery against Daddy Freeze and Benedicta through photographic, documentary and electronic evidence and also by the admission of Benedicta Elechi herself.
The Judge was said to have referred to Benedicta as a ‘self-acclaimed adulterer”.