This Is War

In This Is War, Chief Chidi Ibokwe dies of a heart attack in Abuja. His video will locks the estate behind two conditions: his secret daughter Alexandra must meet the family and all children must unite for a dignified burial. Betty refuses to release the body until the family lawyer Barrister Adams plays the recording. The video reveals Alexandra and her mother Evelyn, Betty's former best friend, and a third child Kelechi claimed by a woman named Yetunde. The household fractures as Betty grapples with the betrayal of the woman she once introduced to her husband. Evelyn and Alexandra move into the mansion and immediate hostility erupts between the two women. Tara begins a tentative bond with her new half sister while Rachel watches from the sidelines. DNA tests conducted in secret confirm Alexandra and Tara as Chidi's biological children but exclude Kelechi which enrages Yetunde into threatening violence. Betty's confidante Jumoke leaks a private conversation where Betty calls Chidi's relatives vultures prompting Betty to blackmail Jumoke into retracting the audio. Evelyn attempts to claim the master bedroom and Betty responds by dousing her and Alexandra with ice water. The lawyer warns that no one inherits unless they cooperate for the funeral. At the formal will reading Chidi's final video apportions assets. Betty receives forty percent of Zuka Holdings and the Azuka compound. The children split sixty percent with Alexandra getting Abuja property and Rachel receiving the village house and Kelechi receiving a plot in Garki. The triumph collapses when Barrister Adams announces Chidi died bankrupt having secured a three hundred billion naira loan against all assets which the bank has seized. The family is left with only the physical houses and no liquid wealth and no company control and the realization that their vicious infighting was for nothing. Betty retreats to the village house she inherited resigned but determined to rebuild.