Events involving the late Afrobeat singer Mohbad, his close associate Primeboy, and his wife Wunmi have been thoroughly recounted by a professional driver who drove him to a performance on the day he passed away.
Testifying at the ongoing coroner’s inquest on Friday, the driver revealed that Mohbad seemed emotionally disturbed throughout the day and engaged in several intense arguments, especially with his wife.
“I am into the business of car hiring and have been doing this for over 20 years,” he began.
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“On the day of the show, I went to Mohbad’s house. He came out with his wife and son looking happy and was playing with his child.”
The driver stated that the mood shifted as they began their journey to the event, with Mohbad and Wunmi engaging in a heated exchange in Yoruba. He noted that he could only grasp parts of the conversation due to his limited understanding of the language.
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“The only thing I heard clearly was when Wunmi said in pidgin, ‘you dey disgrace me and your pikin.’ She even threatened not to go again, but we all pleaded with her,” he recounted.
At the event, Mohbad finished his performance and was led back to the car by soldiers, as some area boys had gathered, demanding money. The driver noted that the singer grew upset and attempted to challenge them, but he advised him to stay calm. This reaction, he claimed, sparked a confrontation between Mohbad and Primeboy.
“He told Primeboy to get down and began punching him. Primeboy kept saying, ‘Mohbad I can’t fight you, I can’t touch you,’ but Mohbad didn’t stop. He kept hitting him. It was when Primeboy dodged one blow that Mohbad’s hand struck the Prado’s glass, and he injured himself,” the driver explained.
The driver explained that the injury left visible bloodstains on the vehicle’s footmat and on Wunmi’s clothes. Despite this, the tension in the car increased even more as they headed home.
“Mohbad and Wunmi started arguing again. She insulted him, calling him names like ‘oloriburuku’ and ‘oloshi.’ She even claimed she once helped him borrow N200,000 in 2020 which he gave to his mother. Mohbad replied that he would pay her back. Then she grabbed him by the shirt collar tightly until his necklace broke,” the driver stated.
He criticised her actions, stating, “If Wunmi was my wife, I would have beaten her blue-black for the nonsense she did in that car.”
He also spoke out against rumours that Mohbad had attempted to throw his son into a river. “That never happened. It’s not true.”
The driver also shared that when they got home, he tried to calm down both Mohbad and Wunmi before deciding to sleep in the car outside. Around 3 a.m., some of Mohbad’s associates asked him to take them to a pharmacy, but he refused due to insufficient fuel.
He repeatedly knocked on the gate in the morning without getting a response, until Wunmi finally emerged at around eleven a.m. and informed him that she thought he had departed. She consented to pay him for the car damage.
Surprisingly, the following day, the driver said he received a call directing him to report to the nearest police station. It was then that a friend informed him of Mohbad’s death.
“I was shocked, How come?” he said emotionally.
The driver’s testimony contributes to the increasing complexity of events surrounding the singer’s final hours, intensifying public curiosity about the circumstances of Mohbad’s mysterious death.
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