I caught my friend begging my husband to return her pant- Woman tells court
-Ojo Oluwasegun
An Igando Customary Court in Lagos State, on Friday dissolved a 18 years marriage between Mrs. Taiwo Bolumade and her husband Olajide, over allegations of infidelity and battery
Bolumade, while praying the court for the dissolution of the marriage disclosed that she stumbled on a message where her friend was begging her husband, Olajide, 45, to return her pant.
According to Bolumade, the 42-year-old mother of four, “My husband is dating my married friend and I discovered this when I was with his cell phone.
“Then, a whatsApp message entered with my friend’s picture appearing on the screen begging my husband to return her pant.
“I showed my husband the message; he confessed that he was having an illegal affair with her that I should forgive him.
“I also went to my friend’s house to confront her for having an illegal affair with my husband.
“She also begged me that I should not let her husband hear about it and promised to end the relationship with my husband.”
She added that her husband had developed the habit of threatening to kill her with dangerous weapons at the slightest provocation.
“My husband is used to beating me up using dangerous weapons; recently he threatened to kill me.
“Anytime I received a call, my husband would demand for my cell phone to know if it were a man that called; and if I refused to surrender it to him, he would beat the hell out of me.
“He once attacked me on the bed with a cutlass; threatening to machete me but I escaped by the whiskers.” She said
Bolumade begged the court to grant her application for divorce, she claimed that her husband had refused to eat food prepared by her in the past three years.
However, Olajide, who denied the allegation of infidelity, accused his wife of having affair with another man.
He said, “My wife is having an affair with a man; I had caught them severally behind a transformer where they were always meet around 11p.m.
“She and her lover arrested me on two occasions, accusing me of always calling her lover’s cell phone and threatening his life, an allegation I knew nothing about.”
Olajide also described the mother of his children as “an ingrate”, alleging that he
bought two cars for her when his business was booming but when it crashed, she started misbehaving.
“In fact, she even invited the police to arrest me claiming I stole her N100,000 of which I am innocent of,” he said.
In delivering judgement on the dissolution of the marriage, the President of the Court, Adegboyega Omilola, said
“Since both parties had consented to the dissolution of their marriage, this court has no choice than to dissolve the marriage.
“This court, therefore, pronounces the marriage between Mrs. Taiwo Bolumade and Mr Olajide Bolumade dissolved today.
“Both parties are no longer husband and wife; they are free to go their separate ways without any hindrances and molestations.”
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