The kind of wives we marry these days, many of them are just prostitutes who only marry a man to live in his house as a “cover face” measure, while they go out sleeping with men for money. How sad!
A 67-year-old man, Jimoh Ayinla, has filed a case at the Igando Customary Court in Lagos to divorce his 59-year-old wife, Anike, for alleged adultery.
He told the court that his wife whom he had married for 38 years with seven children was adulterous which led to her being impregnated by another man while she was still in his matrimonial home.
In the husband’s words: “My wife left my house to an unknown destination and I did not know that she was pregnant until she gave birth later in her new man’s house.”
Jimoh told the court that 14 years after his wife had left her matrimonial home and refused to return, he had to marry another wife in 2013.
“I married another wife because our children that used to cook for me had all married and I was getting older to cook for myself.
“It was after I had remarried that my wife returned to our home and I had to accommodate her. But, I rejected the child she bore for another man asking her to send the child back to her father,” he said.
The petitioner said Anike had been fighting him and his new wife since he allowed her back in his home.
“Anike was always engaging my younger wife in physical fight on daily basis and I am afraid she might kill her one day. She always slaps me whenever we have heated argument.” Jimoh told the court.
He alleged that Anike would leave the house for weeks without his consent and that he was tired of having to repay her indebtedness to people she borrowed money from without his consent.
The husband, therefore, pleaded with the court for the dissolution of his 38-year-old marriage, saying there was no more love in the relationship.
However, the wise, who did not deny the allegations, begged the court not to grant her husband’s application for divorce saying she was still in love with him.
Love? It is well! The court President, Adegboyega Omilola, had to adjourned the case for judgement.
