Man, 76, Seeks To Divorce Wife, 37, For Denying Him S*x

CYRIACUS IZUEKWE

A sex-starved 76-year old man, Samuel Akande, has dragged his wife, Gift, 37, before an Iyana-Ipaja Customary Court, Lagos, for allegedly denying him sex after their 13 years of marriage.

P.M.EXPRESS reports that Pa Akande, who resides in Idimu in Lagos, told the Court that he had been married for those years and the marriage has been a cross because she was denying his sex, sleeps other men and for being ill-tempered as she frequently fights with him and their tenant.

”My wife does not listen to me. She does not stay at home. She frequents churches. A man came to my house with a witness, who told me that he was sleeping with my wife. My wife waved the allegation off when I confronted her.”

An embittered Akande told the Court that the straw that broke the camel’s back was when his daughter paid them a visit all the way from Ibadan, his wife, Gift, refused to cook for her and claimed that his daughter did not inform her that she was visiting.

In response, Gift confirmed to the claims of the petitioner that she refused to cook for his daughter.

“What he said about me not cooking for his daughter when she came visiting was true. I was nursing a sick child. After the incident, I travelled with my husband’s friends to Ibadan and apologised to my step-daughter over the way I treated her,” she said.

However, a friend of the petitioner, Pastor Vincent Omojeye, confirmed before the Court that the respondent visited her step-daughter to apologise.

“My Lord, what I see here is diversity in culture in the sense that the respondent is not a Yoruba and you know how the Yorubas like to be respected. Although I have rebuked her for the way she treated my friend’s daughter when she visited them.”

“I pray the Court to beg the petitioner to give her a last chance because her children are very young,” Omojeye stated.

The President of the Court, Mrs. P.O. Adeyanju, cautioned the respondent for her unwelcoming attitude towards her step-daughter and ordered that the case should be stood down and filed in the Alternative Dispute Resolution in the chamber after the petitioner agreed to give his wife one last chance.