News as Wife Seeks Dissolution of 5-year Marriage

Illustrative photo of couple fighting

 

Latest news reaching us as Customary Court sitting today in Akure, the Ondo state capital, a housewife identified as Iyabo Olatunji, disclosed that her husband, Ezekiel, is still under his mother’s tutelage. 

 

It is gathered while testifying in her divorce proceeding against her husband on Friday, Iyabo said that his husband was working by his mother's directive.

 

"It is my mother-in-law that gives us food and my husband will not do anything except waiting for the mother’s money. The worst part is that my mother-in-law will not caution her son to stop beating me," she said. 

 

She begged the court to dissolve her five-year-old marriage to Ezekiel for alleged intake of excessive alcohol, adding that she could no longer tolerate the constant beating she got whenever her spouse was drunk. 

 

According to her, the alcoholic intake has rendered the respondent irrational in the way he treats her. She appealed to the court to award custody of the only child of marriage to her. 

 

The president of the court, Rotimi Olusanya, who ruled on the case, said the repeated refusal of the respondent appearance in court would not stop the proceedings. 

 

Olusanya adjourned the case till Sept. 27 for judgment.

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