For fear that his wealthy wife may divorce him and get hooked to another man, a 42-year-old man has sent hired assassins after the wife. Although, the hired killers got the wife, they only shot her, and the woman is alive today to tell her own side of the story.

Parading the suspects before newsmen in his office, the Kaduna State Police Commissioner, Mohammed Tambai Yabo, said one Rotimi Adesina was arrested at the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) staff quarters on July 7, 2009 in the afternoon for attempted murder of his wife, Mrs. Bola Adesina.

Speaking to Daily Sun, in the police Commissioner’s office, Adesina said he was in Lafia, Nassarawa State, for a contract job when he started receiving text messages from his wife that she was no longer interested in their marriage since she was the bread winner of the house.

Bola who was still receiving treatment at the NNPC staff clinic, as at the time of filing this report, following the injuries sustained from the gunshot, was said to be responding to treatment, and as such could not grant any press interview.

Bola who is believed to be in her late 40s is a senior staff at the NNPC, while her irate husband is a petty business contractor, who deals in sachet water and mobile telephone recharge cards. He claimed to be a graduate of Business Administration from Lagos State Polytechnic, Isolo, in 1996.

Daily Sun gathered that few weeks to the incident, Bola had given her husband the sum of N500, 000 to support his job in Nassarawa State .

Both husband and wife, had married for three years in a church in Kaduna without a child. That was after Bola had lost her first husband in a motor accident and Adesina had also lost his first wife in a sleep after given him two kids from the marriage.

Adesina said that in addition to provocative text messages he received from his wife, he was also not comfortable with the number of men that were visiting his wife in the house who according to him, the wife claimed were her colleagues in the office.

He confessed to have engaged the services of one Solomon Moses from Lafia to help him kill his wife because, “she is no longer respecting me, and she is also misbehaving.”

The alleged hired assassin, Moses, 28, told Daily Sun that he was deceived to Kaduna by Adesina to just accompany him to visit his (Adesina) family. He said that as a carpenter he was working for Adesina in Lafia for a fixed amount.

He added that on reaching Kaduna, Adesina lodged him in a hotel. He later took him to his house at the NNPC staff quarters where he allegedly gave him a gun loaded with two bullets to kill his wife as soon as she entered the house.

Moses said he was afraid on sighting the gun and wanted to shout but that Adeshina prevented him from shouting. He alleged that he was locked up in the house while he, (Adesina) took cover nearby to watch how his wife would be shot dead.

The innocent looking Moses confessed that he fired at the woman as soon as she entered the house. He said he couldn’t fire the second shot because the gun fell off his hand. He added that he couldn’t say exactly which part of the woman’s body he aimed the gun at.

However, sources at the NNPC staff clinic said the bullet pierced the upper skin of Bola’s stomach. The sources added that she has been barred by the Corporate Affairs Department of the NNPC from talking to the press.

The husband’s account: “My name is Rotimi Adesina. Police arrested me because I wanted to kill my wife. I wanted to kill my wife because she has been threatening my life saying that she is the only one who has been taking care of me. That she will divorce me, and because of that I was annoyed and carried gun to shoot her.

“We are married for three years now, no child yet. But it is not because of this that I wanted to kill her. I wanted to kill her out of provocation since she said she will divorce me to marry another man. Telling me that why should I abandon her in Kaduna, while I remain in Lafia.

“She normally sent different text messages to me that she can no longer bear it since I cannot come back from Lafia.

“And when I decided to come back, she said, no, I should not come back again because I am not contributing to any thing in her life, and that she is the only person that is taking care of the house.

“The boy I brought from Lafia to help me kill my wife is a carpenter. I just asked him to follow me to Kaduna and on reaching my house in Kaduna, I told him what I wanted him to help me to do and that he should co-operate with me, so that is how I involved him in this case.

“But I didn’t tell him from Lafia that I was going to kill my wife. I only told him when we arrived Kaduna. The gun I gave him. I got it at a spot in Kaduna during the Sharia crisis. But I have never used it until now. I regret every of my actions in this case.”

Moses Solomon gave his own account: “I am a carpenter based in Lafia but my state of origin is Plateau State. Adesina met me in Lafia and he used to give me jobs to fix nets to windows.

“Few weeks ago, Adesina told me that I should follow him to Kaduna to visit his family and that he will pay for my transport. On reaching Kaduna, we went to his house and he said his wife is not around.

“So he now told me that I should escort him to somewhere, and he eventually took me to one hotel which I never knew.

“Adesina discussed with the owner of the hotel and he gave him a key to one of the rooms. Then he gave me the key and one paper that I should keep them with me.

“On getting back to the house, he opened the gate and locked it behind us. He opened the inner door and I entered, then he locked the door, he entered the kitchen and came out with the gun.

“I was afraid on seeing the gun and I asked him what he wanted to do with the gun. He said I should keep quiet, that he wanted to kill his wife because she used to follow other men.

“So Rotimi gave me the gun and showed me where to press, and that I should stay near the bedroom so that if the wife is entering the house I should shoot her.

“I didn’t know anything about this thing, and the gun that he gave me had only two bullets inside. I don’t know where Rotimi hid, then the wife entered and I shot at her I don’t know which part of her body I even arrived at, and the gun fell down with the remaining bullet.

“All of a sudden Rotimi opened the back door for me to run. On my way out, two men grabbed me and started beating me. They carried me to the clinic and showed me to the wife to identify me, and she said, yes, I am the person who shot her.

“Rotimi never promised me any money, and when I asked him why he wanted to kill his wife, he said I should shut up.

“I want the woman to know that it was not my own fault, it was her husband’s fault. I want her to forget and forgive me.”

forget and forgive that you tried to kill her abi? if she died the story would have been differient now. Wicked people, you should surely rot in jail. Useless apayans

Scary business!!!!

Like Fela Anikulapo Kuti sang Oro pesi je o, oro di hmmn

na wa oh.
that is terrible man

I keep saying that just because you were born with a penis does not make you a man. The man admits that she even helped support him financially and yet when she says she wants out because the relationship had obviously been long distance for a while he decided to kill her. What a useless waste of space. The death of his first wife should also be investigated because they claim she died in her sleep. I am suspecting that this is not the first time this demon committed murder

like my fav uncle would say: Oluwa so wa n mbe oh!

None of you has considered the fact that the defendant may be sick in the head. He is not the first, there are many suicide lovers that will kill their partner and themselves.

He is not crazy he just sounds like many nairalanders here that say things like if she provokes him enough he might just do something. That is the same excuse that this mugu is giving. If he is smart enough to plot a murder then he is surely capable enough to understand right or wrong and that means that he is fit to stand trial and take the punishment

The man has no excuse whatsoever to do that. He's simply a gold digger and a very dangerous one at that.
i pray the woman recovers fully and continues with her life.

'Til death do they part'! As sm1 said on anoda post d man is just hurryn d process - very sad

Thnk God she didnt die

I'm not surprised,