Man whose fiancée called off wedding denies physical assault, reveals what actually happened

David Okike, the man whose fiancée, Ozioma Michael, called off their wedding three days before the scheduled date, has finally broken silence.

It could be recalled that Ms Michael and Mr Okike who hail from Uburu in Ohaozara Local Government Area of Ebonyi State, were supposed to get married Saturday, April 16.

According to the details in the invitation posted on Facebook by Ms Michael, the wedding ceremony was scheduled to take place at Living Faith Church Amata Uburu.

However, few days before the wedding, Ms Michael, also known as ‘Ada Uburu’, came out to announce the wedding cancellation on her Facebook page on Wednesday.

She also alleged that Mr Okike usually “hit and abused” her at any slightest provocation.

She also accused her ex-fiancee of frequently beating her with his belt, stick, broom, and sometimes hammer.

Reacting to this on his Facebook page on Friday, Mr Okike described the allegations as “fabrications.”

According to him, although they disagreed at some points in the past, he has never beaten his fiancée since they started dating over eight years ago.

“Within these years, I have never, on any occasion, irrespective of the level of provocation, raised my hand on her and this is because I respect (and) adore her.

There was no such occurrence where I raised a knife, cutlass, and or hammer on her,” he said.

Going further, Mr Okike revealed that the fiancée is currently pregnant for him and that, according to their community’s tradition, he would not receive back the bride price from her family until she has given birth.

On how the ‘pregnant’ fiancée became hostile toward him despite accepting to marry him, Mr Okike said, “When we went for marriage counseling, the church decided that her condition doesn’t permit holy matrimony but rather marriage blessings.

“This got her unnecessarily worked up. She became hostile to me and got angry at any little provocation. It was the height of her frustration. She isn’t what I bargained for after all.”

The man went on to allege that she committed three abortions in the past on the grounds that she would not bear a child outside wedlock.

He said;

“After paying her bride price in 2020, she took in and terminated the pregnancy at Federal Teaching Hospital, Abakaliki. That was the third pregnancy she terminated.

“I was pained and we had some misunderstanding and it got to a stage where my mother-in-law got worried if she could still get pregnant because of her series of abortions.”

He said he helped her start some businesses but alleged that she lavished everything on her “extravagant lifestyle.”

Mr Okike said the fiancée had earlier “postponed” the wedding ceremony four consecutive times.

He expressed shock that she decided to keep quiet and allow him “spend heavily on wedding arrangements” before finally calling it off.

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