She Wants To Divorce Me After She Had Used Me,Man Tells Court

A lawyer, Mrs Florence Adeoye, on Tuesday pleaded with an Ojo Customary Court in Lagos State to dissolve her marriage over threats to her life.

Mrs Adeoye, a 28-year old civil servant on Grade Level 12, told the court that her husband, Nelson Adeoye, no longer cared for her and their two daughters, aged 11 and 9 years, respectively.

“The trouble is too much, my husband refused to allow my second daughter to go to the boarding school she got admission into with the pretext of ill-health.

“My daughter should have been a student in a model school now but my husband is too selfish, he wants to keep my children closer to him and because I refused, he did not pay her fees,” she said.

She told the court that the frequent beatings from her husband led her to pack out from his house.

“I don’t want the marriage anymore, he should just take care of my children; we cannot live together again, the love is no more there, “she said.

 Nelson Adeoye, a teacher with the Lagos State Ministry of Education, however, described his wife’s claims as false, saying that she had some hidden motives for packing out of his house.

“She just wants to divorce me after she had used me as a ladder to climb to her present status, and wants to abandon me after she has achieved her aim,” he said.

He said that he had to be cooking for her for some years to further express his love for her.

” I am also fed up of the marriage, the court should go ahead to dissolve us.

“She has caused me so much pain through her violent behaviour, she has even built a house for herself yet I married her without anything,” he said.

“The girl she said I refused allowing to go into the boarding house in a secondary school is below the prescribed age.

“She is just nine years’ old and she needs to complete her primary six before gaining admission into the secondary school,” he said.

The Court President, Mr. Hakeem Oyekan , however, pleaded with the woman to allow the young girl to complete the primary six programme before going to a secondary school.

Mr. Oyekan advised the couple to return home and make efforts to settle their problem, adding that they must not allow their personal misunderstanding to affect their children’s progress.

He, therefore, adjourned the case to Dec. 16 for further hearing.