My Husband is Unrepentant Polygamist, Divorce Seeking Woman Tells Court.
“My husband deceived me; he did not tell me that he had
three wives before marrying me, ” says a divorce-seeking 42-year-old
businesswoman, Funmilayo Otegbola.
The woman told an Igando Customary Court in Lagos on Friday
that her husband impregnated her and hurried her into the house.
“When I became pregnant for my husband, I moved into his
house although we are not legally married.
“I discovered that he already had three wives living with
him, there was nothing I could do since I was pregnant, I had to stay,” she
said while responding to a divorce suit filed by her husband, Rufus Otegbola,
for 13 years.
Funmilayo said the man had turned her into a punching bag.“My husband beats me all time and even when I was pregnant,
he beat hell out of me; I fell into labour immediately, forcing the delivery of
the baby.
“As a result of frequent beating, on May 9, 2016, I packed
my belongings from his house and moved to my parent’s house,” she said,
described Rufus as an ungrateful person.
She continued: “When he lost his job, I was the one feeding
him with his wives and their children and I was also paying the school fees of
our children and my step children.”
The mother of four, however, consented to the dissolution of
the marriage, saying “I am also fed up with the union.”
“My wife is diabolical and fetish, she always comes home
with charms (juju)and I feared she may kill me one day if I do not end the
marriage.”
The 47-year-old businessman said that his wife packed out of
their matrimonial home without his consent.
“My parent-in-law and my wife’s siblings came to my house to
pack my wife’s property without my permission,”he said.
The petitioner, who claimed to be the fifth husband of the
wife, described her a “serial divorcee” as she had married and divorced four
husbands before he married her.
“My wife is adulterous, I am the fifth man that married
her.”
He urged the court to terminate the marriage that he was no
longer in love with her.
The President of the court, Mr Adegboyega Omilola, after
listening to the couple, adjourned the case until May 9 for further hearing.
(NAN)
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