Friends, Associates Rally Round Mohammed Babangida To Safeguard “Dirty Secrets” Of Custody Battle For Children In Collapsed Marriage As Ex Wife Rahma’s Sympathisers Spoil For War

…Inside the raging battle of wealth and influence

Information filtering in have it that Mohammed, the heir apparent of ex military president Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida is engulfed in a major battle – threatening the family’s name.

And his combatant is ex wife, Rahma, the daughter of mega business man Alhaji Indimi.

Mohammed and his former first wife are doused in a messy divorce.

The development which friends and associates desperately tried to cover up spilled into the public sphere with the leak of an embarrassing conversation about their matrimony. The happenstance had resulted in a barrage of reports that painted Rahma as the architect of the wrecked union.

Rahma is further accused of bringing the rot of the collapsed union to the public space with the leaked conversation

Insiders had labelled Mohammed and his loyalists as leveraging on media contacts to taint the reputation of his ex wife.

The move was said to be aimed at protecting the reputation of Mohammed and his family as well as aid on going battle for custody of the children produced by the union.

According to information monitored on popular blog, Lindaikeji, at stake is said to be who takes charge of the two older children – Maryam and Ibrahim.

The youngest children – two in number – are said to currently reside with Mohammed.

Emerging information have it that Mohammed backed by the clout and influence of his family has secured a sharia court order giving him custody of the children with Rahma.

An order Rahma and her family are said to be contesting through a Federal Capital Territory Court.

The ex wife and her backers are alleging Mohammed and his loyalists clandestinely secured the sharia court judgement directing handover of the children with Rahma.

According to emerging details neither Rahma nor her representatives had chance to counter the younger Babangida’s assertions in Sharia Court before judgement was given.

”Mohammed naturally initiated the case” a source pointed out

According to understanding being peddled by sympathisers of Rahma, ”the Babangida’s wants a quick handling of the situation..something that would not turn messy and affect the family’s image, so they made a surreptious move to secure a favourable judgement in sharia court”

”But they failed to take into consideration the extent Rahma and her backers would go to protect rights to hold on to the children” another source pointed out.

And this Societynowng.com learnt is what Mohammed and his loyalists are finding out with emerging scenerio.

Informants claim while Mohammed and his friends and associates are rallying round to safeguard the ”image of the babangida’s” in the unravelling mess, Rahma’s sympathisers are threatening to expose the ”dirty secrets” of the collapsed marriage. Along with subterfuge moves to deny her the children.

The situation is said to be more messy than imagined with talks of allegations of threats to life and complains to police station said to be in the mix.

”It’s obviously a story to be shielded from the public space if not that the Indimi’s want to visit on the babangida’s the horror they dread to achieve their aim” a source explained.

According to a source the release of details of an ongoing custody battle, allegations of threat to life and related guarded details allegedly by the Indimi camp has unsettled the babangida’s camp.

”They don’t know how far the other party are willing to go and they don’t want the mess to tarnish the family’s fiercely guarded reputation” an insider disclosed.

This is against background agents of the former president infamous in the nation’s history over his june 12 election debacle are on scurrying about trying to prevent newshounds from feasting on the marital mess.

Insiders revealed behind the alleged leaks by the indimi camp, a high power battle of influence and clout is between the two families at odds.

Digs revealed at play is deployment of contacts in efforts to obtain favourable court decisions – like the sharia judgment.

And also involvement of other big names behind the scenes to intercede and effect informal decision that favours.

However just as observed by a watcher of events ”who comes out tops is just a matter of time”