A lecturer with the Nnamdi Azikiwe University (UNIZIK), Awka, Anambra State, Dr. Chukwudi Michael Okoye, has opened up on the incident leading to his assault by a female student, Precious Mbakwe, following an altercation over a TikTok dance video.
Recall that a viral video online featured the student biting, slapping, and harassing Okoye, who is a lecturer with the Department of Theater and Film Studies at the Faculty of Arts of the University, after he asked her to give way for his passage while she was filming her dance video.
In the video, Mbakwe, a third-year History and International Studies student, was performing in front of a phone camera when Okoye walked past in the video, tapping her and saying, “Excuse me.”
The student, however, reacted angrily, which led to a physical fight between her and the university academic.
In a latest development reported on Wednesday, February 12, Okoye recounted that he had only asked the student to delete the video, which featured him while passing when all hell was let loose during a brief interview.
“I was leaving a classroom to my office when I saw the lady along the corridor, she was making a TikTok video and I needed to pass. So I just tapped and said ‘excuse me’ and walked off and when she made that insulting comment I had to come back to first ascertain if she was my student in the department.”
“And then I needed her to delete the TikTok video. I actually asked her to delete it right in front of me and when she refused I stretched my hand to confiscate the phone.”
“I did that to make her say ‘she was from so so department’. And that was when all hell was let loose and the rest like they say is history.”
“So that’s all I can say for now, any other action or whatever, I leave that to the committee to sort out.”
Watch the video below:
The Unzik Lecturer has just dropped his own side of the story. pic.twitter.com/bdtdv7U2Wu
— Dapsy𓃵 (@symplyDAPO) February 12, 2025
See some reactions below:
@DrJay2222: “This man might end up forgiving her without any consequences for her actions.”
@MIGHTYSOUL001: “You go still see some werey wey go talk say the man no have right to asked the girl to delete the video.”
@rawlings_enans: “You see how the man spoke calmly wait for the lady’s own side of the story you’ll will see how that one go dey talk.”
@Therealbenny9: “Most Nigerian men should emulate his character of not beating a woman even when she’s acting mad.”
@Kobey90: “sadly she’s not surviving the school committee investigation… she’s gone… Admission forfeited.”
@Akinomoosun: “This man video am seeing shows how cool and calm he is like I said earlier.”
@Baianoanfield: “If this girl isn’t expelled then there’s certainly something wrong in our educational system,she was very disrespectful to the lecturer.”