September 13, (THEWILL) – The last may not have been heard of the tussle between ex-beauty queen, Helen Prest-Ajayi and the family of late Dr Tosin Ajayi, over the ownership rights to the late doctor’s assets scattered across the country. Barely two days after a Federal High Court in Lagos declared that the former Miss Nigeria is entitled to 50 per cent of the net assets of her late ‘husband,’ the late Dr Ajayi’s first wife, Yemisi and her five children are crying wolf over the court judgement.
On Tuesday September 7, 2021, Justice Tijjani Ringim of the Federal High Court gave the ruling in a suit filed by Helen and one of her daughters, Tomisin. The judge granted the 13 reliefs sought by them, which included that Helen is entitled to 50 per cent or so much as the court may sanction upon audit and valuation, constituting the net assets of the First Foundation Medical Engineering Company, a medical firm owned by the late doctor, after satisfying all taxes and debts as family and investment partner of Dr. Tosin Ajayi, from 1996 till 26 April, 2020 to the exclusion of Oluwayemisi Ajayi, the late doctor’s first wife.
Other reliefs sought by Helen and her daughter which were supposedly granted, also includes, among others, a perpetual injunction restraining the Registrar-General of the company from recognising the first wife, Yemisi as entitled to run the firm and a perpetual injunction restraining her from dealing with the assets and properties belonging to the late doctor.
However, Yemisi and her children have denied that Justice Ringim ever made this judgement, insisting that it is a concocted lie told by Helen who has exhibited the highest level of desperation. According to the first child of Yemisi, Mrs Olutomi Deru, the order, which was strangely granted in the absence of a representative of the company and their mum, only granted Helen and her daughter permission to institute their main action and restrained their mum from running the company, pending the determination of the main suit. She added that the orders were temporary and that the court did not make any order granting Helen any share in the estate of her late father, contrary to the blatantly false and sensational stories being sponsored by Helen and her supporters for mischievous purposes. They further said that the orders were fraudulently obtained as no hearing notice was served to their mum or the company or their lawyers. Shockingly, the family revealed that they only just discovered that Helen and her daughter, Tomisin, had filed for letters of administration several months before the late doctor’s funeral. Irked by her action, they described Helen as a woman who aggressively pursues a public perception of grace and class which is all a façade as she is a shameless and classless woman who badly wants the recognition their late father refused to legally grant her during his lifetime. They however maintained that they are ready to accommodate Helen’s daughter, Tomisin, in the estate of their father, despite not being introduced to any member of the family as his daughter.
Dr Tosin Ajayi, who died on April 26, 2020 at St Nicholas Hospital in Lagos after battling a kidney problem, didn’t get buried until 10 months after, because his five older children from his first wife were at loggerheads with Helen over the circumstances surrounding his death. They alleged that Helen was in the best position to tell what really killed their father, besides what the public knows.
