A student of the University of Lagos, Chidinma Ojukwu, who is the chief murder suspect of the death of SuperTV CEO, Usifo Ataga, has denied killing the man.
Chidinma had been arrested in her apartment at 57, Akinwunmi Street, Alagomeji, Yaba area of Lagos State, last month after she was connected to a murder scene in which Ataga was found dead.
Chidinma, who is 21 years old had earlier claimed to stab the man when he was making advances towards her violently.
“At some point, he hit my head on the wall and I retaliated. He held me and was choking me as I leaned on the cabinet.
“In defence, I stretched out my hand and collected a knife and stabbed him in the neck. I had attempted severally to leave before then, but he stopped me,” she told journalists after she was apprehended by the police.
But Chidinma, has now come up with a new story with regards to the businessman’s death.
The young woman, in an interview with Crime Fighters, claimed that she met Ataga dead when she returned from an errand.
Speaking on his marriage, Chidinma claimed that he was having issues with his wife and was not a family man, as popularly opined.
She said: “He has issues with his wife. He wasn’t into a happy married life; he was just more of catering for his kids.”
According to her, they had both partied all night and by the next morning, he sent her out to buy provisions for the apartment and drugs.
She said, “Before I was leaving, he stood up to lock the door. But when I got in, I was knocking and there was no answer. I opened the door and discovered it wasn’t locked.
“The duvet was on the floor, plus pillows. The couch was facing the door, and the bed was stained with blood already. The floor, where he was, was bloody. Music was on, the TV was on. The room was disarranged like someone broke in.”
According to her, she took her belongings, and his things (among which was his ATM card) and fled.
“Then I saw him on the floor. I didn’t know what to do, I took my things with his things and left. I just did it, it is not like I have anything to do with his death. I didn’t have anything to do with his death,” she said.
When asked why she still withdrew money from Ataga’s card, she said it was because the Super TV boss had already offered her the money prior to his death.
She also debunked claims that she had withdrawn millions of naira from his account, saying that she had only N400,000 in her account.