27-year-old housewife seeks dissolution of 13-year-old marriage
A
27-year-old housewife has asked an Ado-Ekiti customary court to
dissolve her 13-year-old marriage to her husband, Azeez Solomon.
The
woman, who resides at Fabian Hotel, along Ilawe road in Ado-Ekiti, told
the court that she had made efforts to make the union work but Solomon
had been impossible.
According to her, her husband was not
performing his responsibilities in the family. The mother of three said
she was the one paying the children’s school fees until last year, when
he took over. Favour said whenever her husband misbehaved and she
pointed it out, he would retort, saying he would kill her and nothing
would happen. She added that whenever they had sexual intercourse, her
husband would demand for the cloth she used to clean up, saying she
found that strange and had to stop him from having sex with her.
The
woman alleged Solomon was fond of patronising a herbalist, especially
when he was ill, and fond of bringing black soap to the home. Favour
said her husband wouldn’t allow her access to his room, which he
allegedly locked all the time.
Admitting that Solomon assisted
her financially when she started her business of selling phones and
accessories, she said he, however, asked her to leave the shop he had
offered her for the business when her business boomed. “He said I was
disturbing him, whereas it was the business I was using to maintain the
children. I pleaded with him but he refused,” she said.
Favour
maintained she was no more interested in the union and wanted custody of
the children – Marvelous, 9, and Christian, 5, both boys, and Mercy, 2,
a female. Forty-year-old Solomon, a resident of No. 2, Omisanajan
Street, Ado-Ekiti, said his wife was his sales girl when he met her and
they both fell in love and decided to marry each other.
He added
that even after the marriage, they didn’t separate the business between
them. He said after the union, his wife started misbehaving, and denied
her allegation that he was not paying the children’s school fees.
Solomon
denied the allegation of non-access to his room, saying he still loved
his wife and the court should plead with her on his behalf to come back
home. The president of the court, Mrs Olayinka Akomolede, adjourned the
case till October 24, 2019 for judgment.
