Woman seeks divorce over husband’s refusal to go to Church
-Adenike Akindude
Adenike Oladejo, a housewife has approached an Idi-Ogungun Customary Court, Agodi Ibadan, seeking that her marriage to her husband Samuel Oladejo of her nine years marriage is dissolved over his refusal to attend church with her.
The woman also complained that her husband was a drunk and always came home late, adding that he did not care about her welfare and that of their only child. She added that her husband’s way of life caused her tears every day.
She testified before the court describing her husband as “a stubborn and irresponsible family head who preferred spending his money on alcohol.
“I regret marrying him because my parents warned me not to marry him but I did not obey them due to the blind love I had for him.
“I pleaded with him on many occasions to be going to Church, with the aim of repenting from his bad ways of life but he refused.
“My Lord, separate us, I can no longer stay with a man who does not know God but live a sinful lifestyle.”
Her husband, who agreed to divorce the wife, accused her of abandoning him when he became broke.
He said, “The court should grant her request but she did not seek for divorce when I had money and things were going on smoothly for me.
“It is now that she wants a divorce because I hardly feed her and cater for her needs and our kid because I don’t have the means.”
Chief Mukaila Balogun, The president of the court, dissolved the marriage, on the basis that evidence shows that both parties proved that they both agreed to the separation.
Balogun also gave the custody of the only child of the marriage to the woman and ordered the man to be paying N3,000 monthly for the upkeep of the child.
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