Much had been said and revealed on the estranged relationship between Dino Melaye and his once upon a time jewel, Tokunbo, but fresh information from families and friends of the separated couple are of the opinion that Tokunbo took much for granted for the sake of love and lived in pure hell with Dino before she decided she’s had enough and took to her heels.
“Dino cannot stand before some of us that he did right to his wife. Tell Tokunbo to take off her clothes, you’ll be shocked at the level of damage this guy had done to her body with his belt. He would beat her as if beating a wayward house help.
If you look well at Dino’s defence, you’ll laugh. How can he claim Tokunbo was going about with boyfriends? Ha ha. And that he didn’t know when she went to India for her operation. He knew and when she came back, it was this same guy that encouraged her and paid for her trip to Ghana.
“All the lies should stop. We knew this guy has a gun. Go to Aiyetoro in Kogi, his hometown and ask who was always going about with gun during elections, they’ll tell you who. It is so sad he could deny owing one. So, he’s not as tough as he claims.
“Tokunbo has had course to pack out of the house many times because of this domestic violence and Dino would always find a way of walking his way back to Tokunbo and take her back home, but when Dino introduced the use of gun, like pointing a gun to her head, she said enough is enough and took flight to a family friend’s place before filing for divorce and subsequently moving to a new apartment of her own.
“Her uncle, Justice Fabiyi, a Supreme Court Judge is also aware of the kind of horror Dino had subjected his niece to over the years.
“When this whole thing called relationship was to be consummated about 10 years ago, some of us who knew Dino’s antecedent back in Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, warned seriously against it. We kicked, but Tokunbo’s mum encouraged her to go ahead claiming it was okay for her to marry somebody from the same area with her (Tokunbo is from Ekirin Adde while Dino is from Aiyetoro Gbede, in Ijumu local government area of Kogi State).
“Dino first started by kicking against Tokunbo coming to the house after 6:00pm, when he’ll not return to the house till 1;00am at times, though he doesn’t drink, but he’s a chronic night crawler. He had on many times instructed the security men to lock Tokunbo out of the house.
“Even the things Dino could claim to have given the wife he had taken back, like cars. You know the guy is a car freak. He will buy a car today for the wife and the following month tell the wife not to drive it again that the car has been sold. Even when they go on holidays abroad, the guy would still find one reason or the other to make the wife unhappy.
“On one occasion, he took the family to Dubai and came back home the next day on another holiday at the insistent of the kids. He took them to London and flew them back home the following day claiming he didn’t want their visas to expire. We can go on and on. I bet you no woman can live with this guy. Might be he’ll bring Bisi Ibidapo-Obe home now to start life all over,” a family source told us on phone last week.
