The estranged wife of comedian and skit maker Kehinde Ganiyu, popularly known as Ijoba Lande, Dara, has stated that her ex-husband is an addicted gambler and assaults her at every slightest opportunity.
She swore that contrary to the allegations against her, she never slept with 21 men and dared Ijoba Lande to release the video that he has.
Dara made the disclosure in an interview with Nollywood actress, Biola Adebayo, on Friday.
According to her, Marygold, the comedian’s manager, who coincidentally happened to be her friend, was the primary reason she left the marriage, stressing that her ex-husband was always taking sides with her during arguments.
She said, “When I met Lande, I didn’t date him because of the money he has. People do not want us to date. Even then, I had someone I was dating, but my friend (Marygold) convinced me to date after he showed interest in me at a party we first met. He plays aviator (online betting) a lot, and that thing rips him of millions, to the extent that he sold his car and still used it to make a bet. He was always on his phone and had no attention for me, not knowing that he had always glued himself to those online betting websites.
“I even went as far as collecting food on credit while staying with him. He doesn’t take care of me. And on top of that, he beat me up due to his anger issue. Our problem started when he began to back Marygold for defaulting a monthly contribution of N100,000 pack N1 million. I would challenge Marygold to pay up but Lande would side with her that I should leave her beause she’s broke, I wasn’t taking it lightly because when it was her turn, she collected the money as the N100,000 contribution was coming from the contributors.
“Before I left his place, we had once planned to do a content that we saw me leaving his house. Even the money for my introduction, I paid it myself. I did not take anything out of his house when I left; my clothes and other items were still in his house.”
While fielding questions on what led to the ‘Truth or Dare’ game at the residence of popular Yoruba Nollywood actor Babatunde Tayo, aka Baba Tee, Dara said Marygold initiated the game for a reason best known to her.
She maintained that she was drunk and probably did not know what transpired during the sex dare but recalled sitting on Baba Tee’s legs while regretting playing such a game and being at that scene.