Wife of Nigerian rapper, 2Shotz who got
married in 2013 and have a kid together, accused the rapper of physical
abuse and has now revealed more in an explosive interview.
2shotz and wife during their wedding in Ikoyi Registry (Photo: Bellanaija)
We reported it here last week that
popular Nigerian rapper, Williams Oriorha, known by his stage name as
2Shotz, was accused of domestic violence yet again by his recently
married wife, Precious Chidinma Echeofu a.k.a Precious Jones.
In a series of leaked whatsapp messages
between the rapper’s wife and her friend, she narrated her experience
with 2Shotz explaining that he started becoming violent in 2015 when he
pushed her to the ground despite being aware that she was in pain from a
medical condition.
As the news went viral online and in the
social media, no one knew exactly what to believe. Was this true? or
just rumours? Were the screenshots authentic or fake?
Popular blogger, Linda Ikeji invited her for an interview and she revealed all the hidden details and they are explosive!
How did your husband actually treat you when you got married?
Erm, at first he didn't. He was cool.
Like he was all lovey dovey and it was good basically. I don't know what
happened along the line. I don't want to make excuses for him. I
understood that he was going through a lot, He is the man and it is my
job to submit, to be submissive, obedient and whatever. This I tried my
best to do but I feel like.... I don't know how to put it, but
basically, you know the way I'm always travelling back - forth and with
my degree and everything. I don't know if that kind of intimidated him
or he was just angry at the fact that I had these accomplishments or
something like that.
Are you saying that he was possibly affected by you being more successful?
Like I said, You can't say I'm more
successful. If we are married, we are one. If I'm successful, then he's
successful and vice versa. So yeah. I don't know the root of the whole
problem. I don't know if it's distance because that's what a lot of
people are telling me. But I know a lot of couples that are living
abroad, as in their wives are abroad, husbands in Nigeria or wherever
and they are making it work. With Technology these days (Skype, Viber,
WhatsApp), we have a lot of means to communicate with each other, so
that shouldn't really be a problem. I explained to him at the start,
that you know we are going to go through a lot of tight times, it's
going to be difficult because I want to further my education, masters
and all.
You know in Nigeria, the competition is
so high, you can't go with an ordinary bachelor's degree and get a good
Job. You need to package yourself seriously so that companies will take
you seriously. I was in Nigeria with just a Bachelor's Degree and I know
the kind of Jobs I was being offered. That's not what I want. I'm a
very ambitious person. I don't want to say I'm a career woman but l'm
very ambitious. I know what I went through to go through four years of
college and come out successfully with a little boy. Taking care of my
boy/son that I had before I got married.
I know what I went through and I'm doing
this for him and my kids as well. So basically, I explained to him from
the start that we are going to go through it for a couple of years but
it's all going to be for the betterment of the family, for the Good and
he agreed to this. All of a sudden, it flipped, he changed and the story
became that I was trying to take his baby away from him. That I planned
to take his child away, I didn't want him to be with his child. I
wanted to take her away like I took my son from his father.
As a matter of fact however, my son and
his father are best of friends. Even my son's father is my friend still.
So I really can't pinpoint the cause of the whole drama but... I know
it's probably because of other reasons I can't put my finger on.
Everything went sour at a point. I don't know when or where and I tried
my best to contain it. I'm not saying I'm perfect. I have my faults and I
was able to always admit them but he (2shotz) is stubborn, he'll never
apologise or take responsibility. His excuse is that he's older than me,
so he has more experience and can never do any wrong. Apparently with
the Nigerian Culture, the woman has to be the one apologizing for the
rest of her life and (laughs) at the start, I did that and he got
spoilt. He felt he could do this, hit me and I'll be the one to beg him.
Can we now address him as your 'ex-partner' ?
No.. We are not divorced or nothing. I am still married and all.
You mentioned your partner’s
problem with temper/stress especially as he was losing fame & his
career was suffering. How exactly did it affect your relationship with
him? Did he really blame you?
Well according to what the prophet or
pastors he was visiting told him, Yes. Apparently, I don't know how true
it is but he said that they mentioned it to him.
I was just thinking, like, how can I be
the person that wants to bring you down! At the end of the day, you are
my husband. If you're famous and your career is booming, so is mine.
Is He a very religious kind of person? What religion does he practise?
He's a Christian. We are all Christians.
But you know in life, when you go through some things, you need to seek
spiritual help. You need to seek more help. So I think in the course of
doing that, he probably got blindfolded by whatever prophet he was
going to visit.
He spent your money recklessly. Care to give an insight into this?
OK.. To me, it was our money. I wouldn't
say I didn't allow him. I did let him. It wasn't something that he went
behind my back to do. I was aware. But let Me just put this out there, -
He did give me when he had. It wasn't only me bringing all the time. It
wasn't just me. It's probably one of the reasons he was angry, when he
wasn't able to bring at all anymore. But moving on from that, he would
ask me for different things. He was my Husband. My Money is his money.
So that's about it.
The day he mistakenly hit your
daughter.. Was that when you finally gathered the remarkable courage to
walk away? Or something else made you walk away?
I just.. I saw a pattern. I saw what was
going to happen in Six months, one year if I stayed. So I just decided
then that I was going to leave. I never, ever believed in a million
years that I would ever be going through something like this. You know
you watch this in the movies.. You see other people saying their stories
but never ever expect it. If you told me like the last two months ago
that I would go through this, that I would leave him, I probably won't
believe you. If you told me in the last three years that I would ever
experience a man putting his hands on me, I would tell you that you're a
liar. I never ever witnessed something like that in my life. I didn't
know what to do, what to say or who to tell. I never told anyone until
this came out a couple of days ago.
He also threatened to shut you up with his powerful contacts? Any idea who these powerful people are?
I haven't got a clue. I don't know who they are. He was probably just bluffing or whatever, but I didn't want to take a chance.
What future plans do you have for yourself? Do you plan to Reconcile with your husband? What next?
At this stage, I'm just trying to focus
on my Masters. I'm going to focus on my career as a whole. I want to
start up my business in Nigeria. Everything was previously put on hold
because I didn't want to bruise anyone's ego. I didn't want to make
anyone feel intimidated. I just want to focus on my kids. I'm going to
stick with God at this stage because only him can direct my path. That's
basically what I'm going to do now.
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