Senator Ned Nwoko (North East) and actress Regina Daniels have opened more cans of worms over the marital crisis marked by drug allegations, family arrests and competing claims of abuse.
In a detailed post on X on Saturday night, Nwoko accused Daniels’ brother Sammy West of repeated harassment at the family compound, including a 4 am confrontation a month ago..
“Just four weeks ago, I woke up around 4 a.m. and realised that Regina was in my room and on the phone. She was clearly high… I told Regina that the girl had to leave, and one of my drivers dropped her off. Thirty minutes later, Sammy came to my house shouting and demanding that I come downstairs to face him.
“I eventually went downstairs and had to instruct the security to physically push him out of my compound. The level of audacity was shocking. Without the influence of drugs, could he have been so bold and disrespectful?” Nwoko recounted.
He released security footage showing West being removed by guards.
“These videos show Sammy, Regina’s brother, repeatedly coming to my home and harassing my children and domestic staff, especially whenever I was not around. His visits were often aggressive and disruptive,” Nwoko wrote on his X handle on Saturday.
The senator claimed he funded West’s university education, music equipment and an Abuja apartment as well as transferring N125 million to Daniels’ mother, Rita, over two years.
Daniels responded on Instagram on Sunday morning, admitting past drug use but rejecting Nwoko’s narrative.
She said: “Fine, I did drugs. So what? Is that even the issue between us? The moment we had a fight, you rushed to the public, shouting ‘drugs, drugs, drugs,’ because you knew it would make a perfect story for the media — something dramatic enough to distract everyone from the real issue!”
She claimed he encouraged intoxication for s3xual reasons and isolated her by targeting family.
“You say you want me to go for rehab but you are the same Ned who always wanted me high because, in your words, I’m ‘sexier’ when I’m high. You liked me that way because it made me wild and romantic exactly how you wanted me to be.
“You want to find a reason to arrest everyone around me so that I will have no one left beside me… Then, when I’m completely isolated and broken, I will be forced to come back to you because I will have nowhere else to go,” she added”.
She stated there was no court-registered marriage and described the relationship as non-consensual in its later stages.
“No matter how much you think you spent on me, it can never equal the value of the time I gave you, my prime years, my energy, and the career opportunities I sacrificed while being with you.
“And for the record, I would have filed for divorce long ago if there had ever been a legal marriage between us. We were never married in any court of law… Leave me alone, Ned. Marriage is not by force. Love is not by force,” she said.
This development follows weeks of reports about Daniels’ marital troubles with husband, whom she accused of domestic violence in an earlier social media post.
Nwoko, however, denied the allegations, blaming her behaviour on alleged drug and alcohol abuse.
He stated that Regina’s “current battle with substance abuse” had caused strain in their marriage and insisted she undergo rehabilitation.
