“This court has no choice than to dissolve the union in spite of the fact that the wife still claims she loves her husband.
“Both parties are no longer husband and wife, as the marriage has broken down totally, they are free to go their separate ways,” Omilola ruled
Earlier, the 56-year-old-petitioner, Durojaiye, alleged that his wife was always threatening his life through beating and that he was afraid she might kill him one day.
“I had to run away from my 22-flat building to rent an apartment elsewhere just to avoid her frequent beatings, but she trailed me to my new apartment to fight me.
“I had reported her in the past to different police stations, but it did not yield any positive result,” he said.
Durojaiye, a pensioner, also alleged that his wife poured hot water on the new wife his family married for him from the village.
“Please, separate us before my wife kills me, my life is not safe with her, I am a pensioner, I need to enjoy the fruits of my labour,” he said.
However, the wife, Mrs Adenike Rodoye, denied all the allegations levelled against her by her husband. She alleged that her husband was a womaniser.
“My husband runs after anything in skirt; he always sends me packing from the house whenever he wants to bring in another woman. He once sent me out with the children for three years.
“After sending me out, he had married six different women, but none stayed long with him. He was always begging me return to my matrimonial home later,” she said.
The mother of five said she never raped her husband, adding that it was normal for husband and wife to make love.
Adenike said that her husband removed the plasma television set, the air conditioner and disconnected the electricity supply from her flat, leaving her and the children in the dark.
She said that Durojaiye also fought with her pastor on several occasions and even arrested him with police.
Adenike said that the development led the church’s leadership to ban her from worshipping there.
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