The late music legend Sir Victor Uwaifo’s family, on Monday, announced that they were not affiliated with any purported plans to raise funds for the musician’s first anniversary by a group of individuals allegedly led by the late Uwaifo’s manager, Chris Eburu.

The family said that Eburu is currently being tried for allegedly forging their late father’s will.

Speaking to journalists in Benin, Edo State, the family members who include Uwaifo’s eldest child, Mrs. Ogbomwen Reden, his son Goodman Uwaifo and others, also accused Eburu of using a name linked to their father to deceive the public into participating in the program.

“We know our father is a global figure that can be celebrated anywhere by his fans but not somebody who is already having issues and facing criminal charges. He is using a platform connected to my father’s Revelation Tourism Palazo to mobilize people for the event and we frown at that.

“My eldest brother is in the US, he is not aware of this, about eight, out of our father’s 12 children are not aware of this and they are not part of it,” Goodman Uwaifo said.

Also speaking, Mrs. Reden alleged that the manager altered her late father’s will and brought in witnesses believed to be unknown to his father to sign as witnesses in the will.

She said, “The witnesses are not the kind of persons my late father would associate with. My father cannot have an unmarried woman sign his will.

“My father was a very hard-working man till he died and I will not allow anybody to reap what he has laboured for. I am fighting for my father’s legacy”, she said.

Mr. Udinyiwe Obaretin, the Okaegbe for the late Uwaifo’s burial, stated that he believed some members of the Uwaifo family were conspiring with his manager to accomplish what he was doing.

However, when contacted, Eburu stated that the forgery issue was already on the court’s table and that he would not comment further.

In regards to the anniversary, he stated that the Revelation Tourism Palazzo centre in Uwaifo is an association and does not require the consent of the Uwaifo children to have any anniversary ceremonies for its late member.

He insisted that before making any plans for the anniversary, the family’s approval be obtained.