The death of Bimbo, wife of Lagos car dealer, Ikechukwu Ogbonna, has sparked controversy as different reasons are given for the tragic incident that occurred on Saturday.
One source claimed that Bimbo confronted her husband IVD on Wednesday, October 12, 2022, over the constant beatings she received, and fight ensued.
The fight resulted in their house being set ablaze. Her husband was said to have escaped with minor burns while Bimbo suffered severe burns.
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Bimbo, who suffered severe burns during a violent incident at their residence in Megamound Estate, Lekki, Lagos, was said to have been rushed to and admitted in the intensive unit of unnamed hospital sometime this week.
After being called out on social media by the deceased’s sister who claimed he killed Bimbo and watched her burn to death while filming, IVD released videos on his Instagram page which shows a lot of damage done to his house.
In one of the videos, his late wife could be heard in the background saying “You’re a small man, HIV positive, ritualist.”
In another video shared by Ogbona, he could be heard saying “all this will end today” with threat to beat his mother in-law.
Another source, Oyindamola Martins, the brother of the late Bimbo, said his family members did everything possible to keep Bimbo away from IK but she kept on going back to him.
While responding to comments on his Instagram page, Oyindamola said it all started when an 18-year-old Bimbo met Ikechukwu. He said she had given Ikechukwu all her school fees and eventually dropped out of school. He further stated that after several failed warnings for them to stop seeing each other,
Bimbo’s family took her to Abuja to live. However, IK contacted her and told her that he was going to kill himself if she did not come back. He said Bimbo ran down to Lagos to be with him. Oyindamola added that their family even offered to pay IVD money to stay away from young Bimbo at the time, but they continued their relationship.
Bimbo’s younger brother gave details of how his sister put fire to her matrimonial home that eventually led to her death.
In an interview with OAP, Daddy Freeze, Oyindamola said after many years of sadness, physical and emotional trauma, the late Bimbo recently decided it was time for her to walk out of her marriage but she did not want to walk away empty-handed.
He said Bimbo told him that she had “sacrificed” her life for her husband, IVD and that she made him who he is today and cannot just walk away.
Oyindamola said Bimbo asked her husband to give her the documents of their property in Lagos so she can take possession of the property but he refused. He said Bimbo then vowed to burn the house so that both of them would not have it.
”She said since this is the only house we have, let us burn it so the two of us would leave with nothing.”
He said Bimbo poured kerosine on herself and then threatened to burn herself but IVD who was home at the time failed to persuade her not to do so. He affirmed that ‘‘Bimbo then set fire to their curtain and held on to IVD but he allegedly pushed her into the burning curtain which consumed her. She got 100-degree burns.
‘‘As she was lighting up the whole house, she poured kerosine on her body and was like let everything just end. When she did it, she stopped for a while and went round the house. He was not saying anything. He was like ‘if you want to die, die’.”
Oyindamola said at this point, Bimbo set fire to their curtain. ”As the curtain was burning, she now jacked him and was like you will give me this papers today..He pushed her off his body and this got her into the curtain.”
”She suffered from a hundred degree burns. That takes like about of a couple of minutes to get 100-degree burns. When she was on fire, her husband was right in front of her doing nothing.”
He said Bimbo was the one who ran out by herself and asked for help to be taken to any hospital. He said she was rejected by 10 different hospitals before they finally found one where she was admitted.
On allegations that Bimbo helped IVD carry out some ritual exercise, Oyindamola said he could not confirm that but it was something Bimbo could have done because she loved him much.
However, the winner of season four of Big Brother Naija show, Mercy Eke, has refuted being romantically linked with Ikechukwu Ogbonna, aka IVD, a Lagos car dealer whose wife, Bimbo, died Saturday.
IVD had been linked with a few ladies who allegedly contributed to his marital misfortune. The reality show star was fingered as one of the ladies who allegedly dated the auto dealer.
Eke has denied the claim and revealed that her relationship with IVD was strictly business.
