“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 Ayinla,67, made this revelation at
an Igando Customary Court in Lagos, while filling an application to divorce his
59-year-old wife, Anike, for alleged adultery.
Ayinla
told the court that his wife whom he had married for 38 years with seven
children was adulterous and 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 that
Anike had been fighting him and his second wife since she returned to her
matrimonial 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.
The petitioner, therefore,
pleaded with the court for the dissolution of his 38-year-old marriage, saying
there was no more love in the relationship.
However, Anike, who did
not deny the allegations, said she was pushed into the act because her husband
was in the habit of constantly assaulting her.
“It was my husband that pushed
me to finding solace and comfort in another man because he was always beating
me.” she said.
She, however, begged the
court not to grant her husband’s application for divorce saying she was still
in love with him.
The President, Mr Adegboyega
Omilola has, adjourned the case for further hearing.
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