A 45 year old man identified as Tunde Thomas with an alias ‘Tunde Gentle’, has died about two weeks ago from heartbreak.
The man reportedly died after he was told that the two kids from his marriage were fathered by the current MD of FCMB, Adam Nuru who was his wife’s boss.
The wife, Moyo Thomas was engaged in an office romance with her boss, her Managing Director of the bank where she worked while many members of the staff knew about the affairs.
The Managing Director of the Bank, Adam Nuhu also learnt to be happily married but engaged in adultery with Mrs. Thomas.
According to his nickname, Tunde was a gentleman who was so caring and took care of the Kids. He spent all his resources on these kids. He took them to London and Dubai on holidays. He also spared no penny in putting the kids in the best schools.
When the older child was about eight years old, Moyo suddenly resigned from FCMB and travelled to the US with the two children as planned by her boss on holiday.
According to report, it was when the school session started in Nigeria and the children were not returned that Tunde started asking questions and the lady finally summoned the shameless courage to tell him the children were not his own.
It was gathered that this shameless lady went to extent of filing asylum in the US on the ground of marital violence in Nigeria. Her aim was to get the Green Card and also get Tunde barred from entering the US, so she would not be able to look him in the eye and tell him the bitter truth.
After Tunde received the sad news first in 2017, He reportedly suffered stroke. He later recovered from the stroke but he was not okay again. He cried a lot.
As he got over the illness, Tunde was said to have tried to pick up the pieces of his life. He reportedly started another relationship with a lady lawyer. Soon, he invited some friends to accompany him to visit the lady’s parents on 26th December. However, the visit was not to be. Tunde was said to have got home from work in the night of 15th December 2020 and collapsed at his residence’s staircase. He died instantly.
Autopsy report puts the cause of his death as ‘heart failure’ .
Tunde Gentle, a former staff of the defunct Oceanic Bank, was buried on Wednesday, 30th of December 2020.
•By Nafisat folake