Oguntade Ismaila
A Canada – based Nigerian widow, Mrs. Mariam Omotolani Adebambi, has raised allegations of forgery, exclusion, and financial impropriety in the administration of her late husband’s estate, urging the Nigeria Police to investigate what she describes as “a calculated effort to sideline her and manipulate legal processes.”
Blueprint gathered that Operatives of the Force Criminal Investigations Department ( FCID) annex, Alagbon Lagos, have investigated the matter and after a forensic investigation, have taken the matter to court.
The matter, which was which is between the Inspector General of Police against Olaitan Awobeku and Olabiyi Ademola was due for arraignment of the accused persons, when the FCID headquarter, Abuja ordered for a review of the case, following a fresh petition from one of the accused persons .
The police had while taking the matter to court on a five- count charges, accused the defendants and others now at large of accused them forging the signature of Mrs Omotolani Adebambi and Mrs Olushola Mariam Adebambi.
Before the matter was taken to court , in a detailed petition, Mrs. Adebambi accused a legal practitioner, Olabiyi Ademola, of forging her signature and that of her husband’s first daughter, Olushola Maria Adebambi, in documents filed at the Probate Registry in Ikeja, Lagos, in connection with the application for Letters of Administration over the estate of the late Olusegun Michael Adebambi.
The widow, who said she married the deceased in 1999 at the Ikoyi Marriage Registry, explained that her husband died on March 1, 2020, after a prolonged illness.
Beyond the financial concerns, Mrs. Adebambi’s petition focuses heavily on what she claims is a disturbing pattern of legal manipulation.
According to her, Mr. Ademola, acting on the instructions of the deceased’s second and third children, initially applied for Letters of Administration without including her and the first daughter: both of whom are legally recognized beneficiaries.
Although a caveat was entered in 2022 through her counsel, Mr. Olaitan Awobeku, and a subsequent settlement reportedly acknowledged her and the first daughter as necessary parties, the widow alleged that the process took a troubling turn thereafter.
She claimed that after the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding between the parties, Mr. Ademola proceeded with further legal steps without notifying her or her counsel.
She insisted that no additional documents relating to the Letters of Administration were presented to her or the first daughter for review or signature.
