Chairman of defunct Skye Bank, Tunde Ayeni, says the result of a DNA test has vindicated him after its content proved that he did not father a love child with Adaobi Alagwu, his estranged mistress, a lawyer in Abuja.

“To allay any form of speculation based on Miss Adaobi’s claims, I hereby state that a DNA test was conducted to ascertain the paternity of the child,” the banker said in a statement on Sunday. “The Ayeni family is not in any way connected to the child and we will never be. Thus I refute the rumour of my connection to her and her mother.”

In a messy paternity claim that dominated headlines last week, Ms Alagwu had accused Mr Ayeni of shirking his fatherly responsibilities from the daughter she said they shared. 

But Mr Ayeni denied the accusations, clarifying he only has three children he fathered with his legitimate partner, Abiola Ayeni.

“I wish to affirm that I am a father to three wonderful children with my delectable wife, Abiola. These are the legitimate scions of the Ayeni dynasty. I do not have any child elsewhere,” stated Mr Ayeni.

He further denied rumours that claimed he bought a property and exotic car for the mistress, calling them “figments of the imagination of mischief makers.”

Mr Ayeni, in the statement titled ‘Setting the records straight’, said he would not expose the content of the DNA test for the sake of the innocent child involved but emphasised he was not related to her. 

Last week, Mrs Ayeni defended her husband in an explosive interview with ThisDay where she described the estranged mistress as a “desperate gold digger” who used juju to bewitch her “naïve” husband.

Despite Mr Ayeni admitting to having been in a brief relationship with Ms Alagwu sometime in 2019, Mrs Ayeni insisted that her husband could not have fathered Ms Alagwu’s daughter.