Nigerian actress Carolyna Hutchings has announced her intention to sue singer Oritsefemi over his claim that she was married to Tagbo Umeike, who passed away in 2017. Through her publicist, Bodex Hungbo, Hutchings issued a threat of legal action in response to Oritsefemi's statements made during an interview on The Honest Bunch Podcast.
In the interview, Oritsefemi claimed that Hutchings had married Davido's late friend, Tagbo Umeike, and that she had persuaded his then-girlfriend, now wife, Nabila, to marry him. “When I met Nabila, I did not say I wanted to get married to her. I only told her that I wanted a baby boy. That was our agreement. I never intended to marry her. It was Caroline Danjuma. Caroline went and did a court wedding with the late Tagbo. After the wedding, she told Nabila that she had married Tagbo and that she should be fast and get married to me,” he said.
Following the viral interview, Hungbo addressed Oritsefemi's claims, clarifying that Hutchings has only been legally married to her ex-husband, with whom she has three children. “This is to address the attempt to defame our client, Dr. Carolyna Danjuma Hutchings, via a concerted effort by an unscrupulous individual known as Mr. Oritsefemi," the statement read. “Several unsavory stories have emerged recently about this individual spreading false stories to cast aspersions on Dr. Carolyna Danjuma Hutchings’s personality, and we are not leaving this unturned. For clarification, Dr. Carolyna Danjuma Hutchings has never been married to anyone other than her ex-husband, Chief Barrister Musa Danjuma.”
The statement also disclosed Hutchings's decision to pursue legal action against Oritsefemi over his statements and emphasized their interest in seeing proof of Hutchings's alleged marriage to Tagbo. “Finally, our legal team will be taking legal action against Mr. Oritsefemi because of these despicable claims made by him against our focused and amiable client, Dr. Carolyna Danjuma Hutchings. We are interested in the said civil marriage certificate and pictures, including all evidence, to prove his claims beyond a reasonable doubt, which he boldly made on a recent podcast show.”
It is important to note that Hutchings has been divorced since 2016 from Chief Barrister Musa Danjuma, whom she was married to from 2007 until their separation.
