Nigerian footballer Yussuf Ayila
is facing a prison sentence for
defying a court summon to an
hearing on allegation that he
abandoned his wife and
children in the Ukraine. The
Dynamo Kiev midfielder, who is
now on loan at Turkish side
Orduspor, has been accused of
dumping his wife Aishat
Gbemisola and daughters Aliyat
and Sefinat Yussuf in Kiev since
October 2011.
Despite being served two
summons, the Super Eagle failed
to appear before a Ukrainian
court on two occasions in Kiev.
Ayila who has since married
another woman Ololade
Aderogba in his native Nigeria,
has allegedly stopped paying
rent, their children upkeep or
contacting his first wife.
Gbemisola and Yussuf Ayila
have been together since
August 1998. Trouble started
when the former Union Bank
player abandoned his wife in
France after she gave birth to
their second child there in
September 2008.
His long time friend Taye Taiwo
was contacted and the defender
cleared her hospital bills and
took mother and daughters into
his home in Marseille. After
several months in France at the
Taiwos, the couple’s families in
Nigeria got involved and
Gbemisola reluctantly returned
to the Ukraine to join him. But
her family in Nigeria also
demanded for a formal union ,
which led to their traditional
wedding on 2 August 2009.
Fresh problems in 2011 saw
Ayila walk out of their
apartment in Kiev and barred
his family from visiting him at
his new place. In the beginning
he was sorting out the
accommodation and other bills.
He then requested they move
into a cheaper and smaller
apartment, which they complied
with. But Gbemi alleged that
Yussuf stopped contacting her
since he married his new wife in
Nigeria and refused to pay their
bills.
Her biggest headache now she
said, was being tricked into
handing her passport and her
kids’ documents to him for
renewal of their visas, but those
passports were confiscated by
him. “He stopped taking care of
his children, and is holding on to
our passports so we can’t even
go anywhere,” she said. “All he
does is send me text messages
and emails insulting and calling
me names. His family have
refused to get involved but
supported his new marriage.
“Before it got to this stage, I sat
him down and ask that we go
our separate ways since he has
started acting funny but he said
that’s not true.
“Only for him to leave us and go
back to Nigeria to marry
someone else. “The matter is in
court now. They have informed
his club that he failed to comply
with two court orders, now he
must face the consequences of
his own actions. “Apart from his
father, other members of his
family are not only wicked but
heartless as well. They all watch
him treat his own children like
this and look away. “Only a
deep heartless man can do what
he has done. I know there is
nothing we can do but only God
and the court remain powerful
to reward him accordingly.”http://omojuwa.com/2013/05/nigerian-footballer-yussuf-ayila-faces-prison-sentence/