Two Men Lay Claim To Newborn Quadruplets

A mild drama occurred last Thursday at the
old site of the Abia State University Teaching
Hospital (ABSUTH), Aba, as two men claimed
paternity of a set of quadruplet, all boys.
The two claimants, Luke Ogbonna and
Hon. Enyioko, a politician, were said to
have had an intimate affairs with Mrs.
Nnenna Joy Ogbonna, mother of the
quadruplet, at different times. Sunday
Sun gathered that Luke Ogbonna who
hails from Isu in Ebonyi State was the
legitimate husband of Mrs. Nnenna and
that their ten year old marriage had
been blessed with five children.
But due to the dwindling financial fortune of
Luke and the attendant hardship faced by
his family, the wife reportedly began to look
elsewhere to make ends meet. In the
process, she allegedly found a new love in
Hon. Enyioko, a politician from Asa in Ukwa
West Local Government.
To forestall her husband’s suspicion,
Nnenna was said to have introduced the
politician as her late father’s friend and
her mother, Madam Mary Jonah Eze,
who was staying with them attested to
it.
At a point, Luke became suspicious of the
relationship and warned the politician to
steer clear of his wife, but the warning fell on
deaf ears.
When he released that things were getting
out of hand, he later sought the intervention
of his wife’s friends to save their marriage
from the threat of an interloper, still, the
effort was to no avail.
Not too long after, Mrs. Ogbonna became
pregnant and the result of the scan test
carried out on her indicated that she was
carrying a quadruplet.
In an attempt to avert the looming trouble
ahead, one of her friends was said to have
advised her to register for ante natal at a
government hospital where she would be
protected in case of any trouble and she
gladly complied.
Some weeks to the delivery time, our source
equally hinted, Mrs. Ogbonna reportedly
went to ABSUTH and registered with the
name of her new lover instead of her
husband’s.
Nurses on duty at Ward 4 where she was
admitted and who had known her earlier five
children raised some eyebrow over the new
name but she insisted on having it.
Just as Luke who was unsuspecting of her
motive always paid her regular, visits, so also
was Hon. Enyioko who often brought various
gifts.
But a little while to delivery time, she told her
husband to stop visiting her at the hospital
because of a concocted spiritual attack she
said she used to have each time Luke visited
her.
However, the real drama unfolded on
Thursday when doctors delivered the woman
of a set of quadruplets. Luke stormed the
hospital with many of his relations to inform
ABSUTH authorities that he was the bona fide
father of the new born babies and that
nothing should happen to them.
Sunday Sun gathered that hours after Luke
had left, Hon. Enyioko, whose two marriages
were said to have allegedly crashed as a
result childlessness, also came with his own
group of people claiming paternity of the
babies.
Enyioko was said to have told the bewildered
workers of the teaching hospital that he had
spent millions of naira to do an in-vitro
fertilization that made the woman to be
pregnant and that he was the one that
arraigned for the set of quadruplets.
Sunday Sun gathered that the teaching
hospital management had put the babies out
of the prying eyes of the two ‘fathers’ for
safety reasons until they were discharged
from the hospital.
When contacted, the Assistant Director of
information, ABSUTH, Joe Onwuka, confirmed
the incident. He said the management of the
health facility was not interested in the
politics of the paternity of the quadruplets,
but how to safeguard them and their mother
within the period they were at the teaching
hospital.