My Husband never beat me up and am not in coma-Chioma Ohakim

There have been news going round that the former 1st lady of Imo state,Barrister Chioma Ohakim was beaten up by her husband Dr Ikedi Ohakim and that she is presently in coma,well she has come out to refute the claims as unfounded and baseless,see what she said

My attention has been drawn to some wicked and malicious reports against my person and unity of my family purporting that my husband, the immediate past Governor of Imo State, His Excellency, Dr. Ikedi Ohakim (KSC) “beat me until I went into coma with serious body injuries”, sometime last week in Abuja…

I, Barr. Chioma Ohakim, mni, Solicitor and Advocate of the Supreme Court of Nigeria and Principal Partner at PCO Legal Consulting Abuja, Lady of St. Christopher and Chairman Nigeria Agricultural Insurance Corporation (NAIC) hereby state unequivocally as follows that:-
I have been happily married for thirty-four (34) years plus to my darling husband with five grown up children and by God’s grace we are grandparents. None of our children lives with us.
At no time in the years back and even now did any such incident (of beating) happen, because His Excellency Dr. Ikedi Ohakim is not a violent man even to enemies.
I never at anytime queried my husband over any purported sale of property because he did not sell any property any where, anytime and for whatever reason. I hereby challenge anyone who believes otherwise to publish the number and address of the said purported sold property that led to the beating.
The story is a concocted lie aimed at causing disaffection against my family in the eyes of the public.
For the avoidance of doubt, my husband, Dr. Ohakim, did not, has not, and will never attack me physically. It never happened and by the grace of God will never happen.
My husband is not a man given to violence, if anything, his greatest strength which sometimes could be painful, is his civility. He is a gentle man personified, God-fearing, humane, and a bridge- builder.
I am taking pains to explain this because I cherish and respect him for his mature ways of handling issues no matter whose ox is gored and also for the fact that this negative strategy was heavily deployed by agents of Satan to cause disaffection for my husband and I against the public even when we were in government.
Since we left office in May 2011, we have busied ourselves with our family, careers and philanthropic responsibilities.
It is also not true that I have been in coma as a result of such alleged beatings and neither was I flown abroad for treatment. Interestingly, I have not stepped outside the shores of Nigeria since October, 2014. You can peruse my International Passport to confirm.
Let me use this platform to appeal to all lovers of family and godly values to disregard such malicious reports. They are propagated by people who hate peace, love and family values and people who are intimidated by our modest achievements and rising profile. Hence, they are hell-bent on concocting wickedness just to make us go under! BUT OUR GOD IS ALIVE.
As a wife and mother, I appeal to the media to please cross check every information before publishing to avoid being soaked into unnecessary litigation. You must resist being used as instruments of destroying decades of hard work and commitment to sound moral-values by my family.
Our politics in Imo State is gradually going out of gear. Politics of issues is gradually giving way to politics of both character and physical assassination. People are becoming too desperate. These must be condemned by all well-meaning people including men of God.
This time around we will not sit by and allow nonentities destroy our reputation as they did while we were busy serving the State.
From now on any person or group of persons or media outfit who publishes or cause to be published any false or negative material against my person or any member of my family, apart from meeting us in court, will have himself or herself to blame.

Signed:

CHIOMA OHAKIM, mni (BARR. LADY)

FEB. 12TH 2015.