December 19, (THEWILL) – He is a self-styled businessman with deep pockets from a royal background. He is an older sibling to USA NFL player, Osi Umenyiora, who married Leila Lopez, a former Miss Universe in 2015. His stepfather owns Germaine Motors and he is the half-brother of Nicole, wife to rapper, Naeto C. Nicole’s mum was married to his dad until he passed on last year. His name is Okwudili Umenyiora, more popularly known as Dilly. He is the CEO of Dilly Motors.
Dilly used to be quite close to Emeka Okonkwo, aka E-Money, the younger brother of singer Kingsley Okonkwo, aka KCee, until they both fell apart. Soon after the demise of their friendship, Dilly attempted to replicate E-Money’s success with Five Star Music, by setting up Eric Many record label.
Unfortunately, Dilly’s record label was not successful due to his ignorance of the music business, unprofessionalism, lack of defined structures, rules, etc. These would later affect the two music artistes he signed on to the label: Presh, a former signee on Five Star Records and Douglas Agu, aka Runtown. While Presh exited the record label, as soon as there was an opening elsewhere, Runtown couldn’t, at least not immediately. He was weighed down by the issues plaguing the label.
As earlier mentioned, Dilly is quite wealthy and owns one the most palatial homes in the Lekki area of Lagos. Unfortunately, in spite of his wealth, the 43-year-old is allegedly unable to travel to the United States. Dilly is an alleged fugitive in the US. The married father of three is being haunted by an alleged fraud committed on US soil and risks being hauled behind bars if he ever makes an attempt to go to that country.
Some years ago, some Nigerians were on trial in Alabama for running a big-time fraud operation. Dilly was allegedly one of them. He got arrested, allegedly turned a jailhouse informant, got released from federal prison on March 9, 2006, according to the Baldwin County, Alabama Corrections Centre database and later got re- arrested.
Prior to the 2006 arrest, he allegedly had several brushes with the law, which didn’t help his case. Back home in Nigeria, he has on several occasions exhibited an attitude considered as worrisome. A clear example was during the period his label signee, Runtown had a running battle with him over his recording contract, which he (Runtown) claimed Dilly kept breaching.
Runtown claimed that Dilly pulled a gun on him once in his (Dilly’s) residence and allegedly threatened to ‘fuck him up’ and his career simply because he (Runtown) went to London on vacation without informing him. While trying to bring an end to their impasse, Dilly had requested Runtown to come to his residence. The latter turned down the request and instead asked that they meet at a neutral place.
“He told me stories of how he killed people in prison and that anyone that fucks with him, he will kill the person. Of course, I won’t go to that kind of person’s house. What if I go there and something happens to me?” Runtown said, in an interview.
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