AISHA ABUBAKAR
A public servant, Okpanachi Yahaya, has been hospitalized after he received serious beating from his estranged wife, Zainab Adejoh, while eavesdropping as she answered a call from her suspected lover in FCT, Abuja.
P.M.EXPRESS reports that the angry wife, Zainab, descended on him, beat him mercilessly and was taken to an undisclosed hospital for treatment.
Following the assault, the embattled husband, Yahaya, has filed a suit before the Upper Area Court in Gwagwalada, Abuja, seeking for the dissolution of their 15-year old marriage over infidelity.
Consequently, the Presiding Judge, Malam Abdullahi Abdulkareem, dissolved the marriage according to Islamic Law following Yahaya’s prayer for divorce on grounds of infidelity.
Abdulkareem ordered Adejoh to observe “Iddah” (waiting period) of three months according to Islamic injunction before contracting another marriage.
The Court further directed that the issue of child custody which the petitioner brought before the Court should be filed as a separate suit.
Earlier, the petitioner, Yahaya had told the Court that he got married to the respondent under Islamic Law and was blessed with two children, aged 14 and 12.
He stated that he noticed that the respondent started having extramarital affairs in 2019 and that had been giving him serious concerns over the years.
“I saw Adejoh hiding in the kitchen talking to another man and when I interrogated her, she assaulted me physically and verbally,” Yahaya said.
He told the Court that after the beating from his embattled wife, Zainab, he had been sick in the last four months, hospitalised and was eventually taken to his village in Kogi State.
He told the Court that since he was in the village over the sickness, the respondent never visited him and continued her illicit relationships.
He said the respondent went to his office while he was away in the village and collected money on his behalf without his consent.
Yahaya said that it was discovered according to his native law and customs that the root of his ailment was the respondent’s illicit relationships with other men.
“Adejoh was invited by my kinsmen for a peaceful resolution regarding our dispute but she declined. There is no more love and peace in the marriage, I want the marriage dissolved, ” he said.
The respondent, who was present in Court, did not deny any of the allegations. She however, consented to the divorce as demanded by her husband.
Thus, the Court dissolved the marriage and asked the parties to go their separate ways.