An Ikorodu Customary Court in Lagos on Thursday dissolved a 30-year-old marriage over alleged promiscuity.<\/p>\n
The court terminated the union after the petitioner, Mr Gbeminiyi Adeyiga, 88, had insisted that he would no longer condone the infidelity of his wife, named Sekinat.<\/p>\n
Adeyiga had pleaded with the court to dissolve the marriage forthwith, citing his wife\u2019s unbridled promiscuity, lack of care and battery.<\/p>\n
The President of the court, Mrs Funmi Adeola, subsequently, declared that they would no longer be husband and wife as the marriage had broken down irretrievably.<\/p>\n
\u201cHenceforth, you are no longer to be called husband and wife as investigation revealed that the wife truly commits the offence alleged against her.<\/p>\n
\u201cHaving tried to settle the differences amicably, there were reports from petitioner that the respondent refuses to heed to series of advice.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou are hereby ordered to go your separate ways and the custody of the three children should be determined by each one of them as they are above 18 years of age.<\/p>\n
\u201cHowever, the children must be jointly groomed toward a better life as your separation should not affect their upbringing,\u201d she ruled.<\/p>\n
Adeyiga, who reside at No. 3, Adeyiga St., off Munirat Aleje Str., in Ikorodu had told the court that his wife was sleeping with different men.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy wife does not take care of me any longer; she does not give me good food and different men come to sleep with her in our home.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe frustrates me, slaps me and she also wants to kill me. I don\u2019t want to die now, please separate us,\u2019\u2019 he pleaded.<\/p>\n
However, the 55-year-old Sekinat, a trader, denied the allegations made by her husband. She said that she still loved her husband and would want the marriage to continue.<\/p>\n
\u201cI beg the court to settle us. He has never caught me with a man. He always suspected every move to the extent that he smells my pants whenever I go out and come back.<\/p>\n
\u201cI want this court to settle this matter. I am not ready for divorce.\u2019\u2019 However, a correspondent of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) at the court reports that the plea was too little too late as the court went ahead and terminated the relationship.<\/p>\n
(NAN)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
An Ikorodu Customary Court in Lagos on Thursday dissolved a 30-year-old marriage over alleged promiscuity. The court terminated the union after the petitioner, Mr Gbeminiyi Adeyiga, 88, had insisted that he would no longer condone the infidelity of his wife, named Sekinat. Adeyiga had pleaded with the court to dissolve the marriage forthwith, citing his […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9021,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"news-category":[319],"yoast_head":"\n