Lagos Court on Thursday saved a
12-year-old marriage between Mr Femi Ajayi and his wife, Modupe. The Court
President, Mr R.I Adeyeri, was able to reconcile the estranged couple thorough
counselling, he ordered Modupe to write
an undertaking that she would change her attitudes and admonished the couple to
maintain the peace.
The petitioner, Mr Femi Ajayi, 45,
legal practitioner, had filed a suit seeking dissolution of his 12-year-old
marriage over threat to his life, arrogance and extravagant life style.
He said that his wife always
threatened his life with dangerous weapons whenever they were fighting by
picking a knife or other sharp objects to stab him.
He described Modupe as a pompous,
disrespectful and arrogant woman.
“She is so full of herself and does
not have respect for me despite all I have done for her, I bought her four cars
within our 12 years of marriage, yet she does not have regard for me.
“She does thing without telling me;
she travelled out of Nigeria without my consent”.
Femi accused his wife of living
extravagantly, using any money she got to buy jewellery to the extent that she
spent N250,000 meant for his children’s school fees.
He said that he would have divorced
her two years ago, but he thought she would change and that they were living as
enemies in the house as they had stopped talking to each other since June,
2013.
In her defence, Mrs Modupe Ajayi, 40,
businesswoman, told the court that her husband was a “womaniser” and had slept
with her best friend.
“My husband runs after anything in
skirt; I caught him making love to my best friend in her house. I refused to employ any house help again as
he has turned them into sex machines,” Modupe said.
“I stopped making love to him and I stopped
washing his clothes when I discovered I always see and smell sperm on his
boxers,” she said.
The mother of three said that a day
after their wedding, her husband abandoned her to stay with another woman and
lied to her that he travelled to see his father in the village.
“I called his father when he did not
show up for days, but he told me that he did not see my husband”.
“After I warned her on phone, my husband
rushed home, dragged me out of the bathroom naked, beat me for calling his girl
friend.
“It was my brother-in-law that ran
out to cover my nakedness,” she said. (NAN)
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