Barely two weeks after he confessed to butchering his girlfriend in a sensational tragic incident that sent the social media agog, self-confessed cryptocurrency dealer and gospel singer, Timileyin Ajayi, has made a volte-face, pleading not guilty to her death.
The suspected killer of Salome Adaidu, was Monday arraigned at the High Court of Justice, Lafia, the Nasarawa State capital.
He was charged with one count of culpable homicide punishable by death, contrary to Section 221 of the Penal Code of Northern Nigeria, before Justice Simon Aboki.
Recall that the 32-year-old was apprehended for the murder of his alleged girlfriend, Adaidu, a 24-year-old member of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), who served at Nicon Insurance in the Nation’s capital, Abuja, before her death.
Salome was murdered when she visited the suspect at his house in the Papalana axis at New Karshi in Karu Local Government Area of Nasarawa State.
The police had paraded Ajayi alongside the knife and machetes he used to commit the crime, after he was nabbed Sunday, January 12, 2025 while trying to dispose of the head of Salome after killing her and dismembering her body parts.
Answering to questions from a Channels Television reporter, when asked if he killed Salome, he answered “Yes”, narrating that it wasn’t planned but it is because they don’t have each other all the time.
“I killed her because we don’t have each other all the time, it’s not something I planned. It happened on that day and it happened. Not that I have the plan in mind, she was cheating. She hides most of the things from me most times. I got to know from her phone. I saw her chats with other guys on the phone, that was why I decided,” he said.
When probed further, he said he has no regrets in committing the crime.
He said, no. “I don’t have any regrets because life is reciprocal that is what I thought, if you must do something to someone, you have to be reciprocal with that person.
“You have to understand what that person is going through so that you can actually put yourself in the position that the person is going through, that is why I don’t have any regrets because we were actually compatible.”
