Couple Docked For Presenting Forged Marriage Certificate For Divorce In Court 

P.M.EXPRESS reports that the couple was charged before a Mapo Grade A Customary Court in Ibadan, Oyo State, for allegedly forging their marriage certificate.

According to the Police, the husband,  Adeyemo, filed a divorce suit before the Court seeking for the dissolution of the marriage with Bolanle. And to prove to the Court that he was legally married to his embattled wife, he presented the marriage certificate before the Court as evidence.

However, in response, Bolanle informed the Court that they forged the marriage certificate because they were living together before they forged the certificate and asked the Court to investigate.

Thus, they were handed over to the Police for investigation and were found culpable for conspiracy, unlawful possession and forgery, which attracts several years of imprisonment.

The prosecutor, Inspector Ayodele Ayeni, had told the court that the couple committed the crime on 20th March, 2026, at about 9.00 am, at Mapo, Ibadan.

Inspector Ayeni alleged that Adeyemo had forged the marriage certificate on September, 2006 and that the first defendant tendered the allegedly forged certificate before the court as an evidence in a divorce suit he filed against Bolanle.

However, Bolanle, opposed the admissibility of the exhibit which led to investigation of the marriage certificate.

According to the prosecutor, Bolanle said that no marriage certificate was issued to them before they started living together as husband and wife.

The prosecutor said that investigation conducted revealed that Ibadan North Local Government Registry, which was inscribed on the said certificate, denied issuing any marriage certificate to Adeyemo and that the one in his possession was fake.

Inspector Ayeni said that the offences contravened the provision of Sections 516, 465 and 430 of the criminal code cap 38 vol. ii law of Oyo State 2000.

The President of the Court, Mrs. S.M. Akintayo, admitted each of the defendants to bail in the sum of N200,000 with two reliable sureties, who must be civil servants on grade level 12.

Akintayo also ordered that the sureties must present the pay slips of their last salary and evidence of possessing the National Identification Number.

The matter was adjourned till 8th June, 2026, for hearing while the defendants were remanded in custody at the correctional center pending when they will perfect their bail conditions.