According to her ex husband, Judith had an affair with her
landlord and neighbours, she called her boyfriend her uncle
and DNA shows that he is not the father of her their second
child which she later admitted.
Looking at things happening to Judith Opara Mazagwu, aka
Afrocandy, Nigerian artiste based in the United States, it
appears that controversy is gradually becoming her second
name. First, the video of her current work, Ikebe Na Moni,
caused a stir on the Internet and major blogs, to the extent
that angry Nigerians fired her hate mails. Currently, her
marriage is a subject of controversy.
This budding artiste had told our sister publication, Daily Sun,
in an interview published on September 3, 2010, that she
didn’t dump her US-based husband, Boltin Mazagwu. She
had said in that interview: “There has been lots of rumours
going on about my marriage and it is only a few people who
know the truth. The fact is, I did not leave my husband; my
husband rather left, due to some gossip he heard about
something that happened back in Nigeria before I joined him
in the US. I begged him and he came back. When he left the
second time, that pushed me to give him a restraining order. I
really would not like to go into details because I see that as
past and I will like the past to remain where it belongs
because I have moved on; talking about it takes me
backward.”
Boltin Elumelu Mazagwu, the artiste’s husband, who read the
interview on line, has been furious. In his reaction, he
accused Judith of cheating on him while their marriage
lasted. He also said that a DNA test has revealed that he is
not the biological father of their second daughter.
Revealing how he met Judith, Mazagwu said: “I worked a
while is Lagos before I relocated to USA. I came for holidays
with my siblings and my uncle arranged for me to get a wife.
There were three ladies he wanted me to meet and choose
from. On my way to check out these ladies, I met Judith, my
ex-wife. Because I like fair complexioned ladies, I took her in
my car and we got talking. She told me that her name was
Sandra, which I later found out was false. She told me she
was a student of IMT, Enugu, which was also false. She never
enrolled at IMT. When I offered to drive her to her home, she
told me she was staying with her uncle. I discovered that the
said uncle was her boyfriend. My friend at Onitsha, Omoba,
revealed these to me.
“The following day, I went to pick her up and we went to
Enugu. After shopping at Onitsha, we came to Lagos, to the
apartment where I lived at Ajao Estate. When I was going
back to the US, I left the apartment for her. I was sending her
money, although I had a hunch about her lifestyle. I
remember telling her the day we met that my people won’t
allow me marry an Owerri woman, since she told me she was
from Owerri. After three months, I came to Nigeria and spent
11 months here with her. At this time, I had abandoned the
idea of marrying the Onitsha lady I was supposed to marry.
Judith and I stayed in a hotel because I lost my job and
abandoned college back in New York. I got broke at some
point during that period and I moved in with a friend,
Christopher, at Okota. He really didn’t want me to marry
Judith and it was a fight between us. He actually pushed
Judith out of the house. People we stayed in their homes
refused her.”
He said that members of her family opposed his relationship
with Judith, but he ignored their position. He said: “They
vehemently opposed our union and yet I wouldn’t listen. It
was war in my family. My mum and my aunt didn’t want her.
My people didn’t want me to marry her, even when she had
become pregnant with her child; they told her after I managed
to go back to New York, that they would gladly take the baby
from her if she delivered, but that I would never marry her.
“When I returned again, I went to her parents; they appealed
to me and told me that their people never get divorced once
they are married. I respected their opinion because they are
good Christians. When I went back to USA, my cousin who
trades at Balogun gave her N200, 000.00 in 1995. You know
the value of money at that time, but I paid back in dollar
equivalent. All these were attempts to make sure that she got
an apartment, which she did at No. 2 Alhaji Azeez Street
Mafoluku, Oshodi, Lagos. Before the introduction of Western
Union Money Transfer, I was sending money to her
constantly. There was this African American publication
called JET. I would put money in between the pages, seal it
and sent it through Red Star every week. When Western Union
came, my name became a household name at Oba Akran
branch of Union Bank.”
He said this continued until, “2002 when she started talking
about acting in movies. I objected to that and maintained that
I didn’t want her to go into acting. I needed her to take care
of the kids, full time and also to get her busy. We quarrelled
over it that night and I almost gave up on her, but because of
my polygamous background and knowing what growing up
was for us, the idea of leaving her was knocked off. I also
love my children, Annabel and Angel, so much because at
that time, I didn’t know that Angel was fathered by another
man.”
When asked what he meant by ‘Angel was fathered by another
man, Mazagwu said: “When she sent me her pictures, I
suspected, from the child’s facial features that she didn’t look
like me. When I complained, she told me that the girl took
after my mother’s people. She stopped at nothing to make me
believe all her lies. She is a pathological liar. When I
confronted her with the DNA results, she confessed that
indeed, I am not Angel’s father and rationalised her actions to
loneliness and temptation.”
On his allegation that his wife had multiply partners, he said:
“In the apartment I rented for her, she had affairs with the
landlord because she lied about her marital status. She didn’t
tell the man she was married. It was only when trouble broke
out that the landlord knew her real status. Also, a guy across
the street, named Goddy from Abia State, laid accusations on
her. She couldn’t deny this. I know Goddy; whenever I came
to town, she would tell me that Goddy was a chief from Abia
State and I took them that way, not knowing they were
dating.”
One how the bubble burst, the angry ex-hubby said: “She
started leaving the kids all by themselves. She would leave
them and hit the clubs. I was boiling, but she had gone full
circle. So, in January 2006, I came to Nigeria to investigate
the whole thing and discovered everything was true. Before I
returned from Nigeria she ran to the child support in the US
to file a report that I had abdicated my responsibility. She
went to the Nigeria Catholic community to complain. When I
returned and told the church what had happened, it was
shocking to them.
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