My Wife Sleeps With Her Ex-Lover – Man Tells Court

There was mild drama on Wednesday in a Court at Ibadan, Oyo State, as a salesman, Subar Ibrahim, prayed the Mapo Customary Court to dissolve his 3-year old marriage with his wife, Rukayat, on the grounds of infidelity and threat to life.

The man, Mr. Ibrahim, while narrating his ordeal before the President of the Court, Chief Ademola Odunade, alleged that he had explored all possibilities of changing his wife but she refused to change.

“Before the birth of our child, I caught Rukayat in a compromising position with the man she had dated before me. She claimed that she did what she did because she wanted to find out the reason she has not been able to get pregnant in a long while.”

“I was sad at first but she apologised and I forgave her. I also kept it a secret between us. I later realised that Rukayat continued to bring different men to my home each time I travelled on business trip to Kano State.”

“Rukayat has also exhibited her jealousy on many occasions; she has called my boss and female colleagues in the office cursing and embarrassing them” he said.

In her response, the defendant, Rukayat, opposed the suit but did not react to most of the allegations levelled against her.
But speaking, Rukayat, who resides in Oke-Ado area in Ibadan, agreed that she had many male friends on Facebook.

“Please, I have nowhere to go, don’t separate us” Rukayat pleaded.

However, Odunade, the Court President, dissolved the union adding that Rukayat could not prove her innocence. He awarded custody of their 1-year old child to the defendant and directed the plaintiff to pay N5,000 as the child’s monthly feeding allowance.