An Igando
Customary Court in Lagos, yesterday, dissolved the 18-year-old marriage between
Mr. Olukayode Atolagbe and his wife, Bisi over her frequent partying.
The court’s President, Mr. R. I. Adeyeri,
said all efforts to reconcile both parties failed and the court had no choice
than to dissolve the union.
Adeyeri ruled: “Both parties are no longer
husband and wife. They are free to go their separate ways.”
The petitioner, Mr. Olukayode Atolagbe, 47,
had filed a suit seeking for the dissolution of his 18-year-old marriage over
his wife’s frequent partying.
He said: “My wife hardly stays at home as
she frequently goes from one party to another, both on weekdays and at
weekends.
“She cannot do without attending three to
four parties a week; sometimes she will go for days without bothering about
what the children will eat.”
He described his wife as a “fighter and a
trouble maker,” saying that she always fought their tenants and even himself in
public, to the extent of tearing his clothes.
“Before I built my house, our landlords
always ejected us from our apartments due to my wife’s frequent fighting with
either the landlords’ wives or fellow tenants,” he said.
Olukayode said his wife would strip herself
naked to swear on him, and that such curses had affected his life and
businesses.
He begged the court to separate them,
saying that he could no longer cope with her behaviour and that he did not love
her anymore.
He slept with our tenant— WIFE
In her response, Bisi Atolagbe, 40, accused
her husband of sleeping with one of their tenants.
The mother of four said: “My husband is
having an affair. I caught him red-handed with one of our tenants.”
She, however, did not contest the
allegation of frequently attending parties.
“I attend parties a lot, especially those
organised by my friends, relatives and my customers, so that they can continue
to patronize me.”
She said her husband had planned to kill
her.
She said: “I saw my husband dropping
something at my door and confronted him. He said it was rat poison.
“But we had never seen any rat in the
house. By the time I came down from my bed to see what he dropped, he had
picked it and ran to his room.”
The respondent said her husband could not
take any decision of his own except he first consulted with his family.
Bisi also accused her husband of starving
her of sex, saying that he last slept with her in March 2014.
She, however, begged the court not to grant
her husband’s wish, that she still loved him.
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