A 57 year-old man simply identified as Valentine, abandoned
his bride to be at the registry and took to his heels during a marriage
registration ceremony over the weekend at the Oredo Local Government
Council marriage registry in Benin, Edo state.
It was gathered that
the embattled groom allegedly abandoned the marriage formalities when he sighted his
wife of 17 years who stormed the venue to disrupt the marriage.
Sources close to the family of Mr. Valentine
disclosed to journalists in Benin that the runaway groom had in the past
approached marriage registry in several courts in a different
locations in Delta state where he was said to secretly contracted
another marriage.
He was said to have perfected plans to formalise his relationship
secretly with his latest lover when on the said day, he invited few of his
trusted friends to witness the occasion.
Information about the arrangement of the new marriage was said to
have leaked to his first wife who had four children for him, and she
subsequently mobilised other women who stormed the venue to disrupt the
administration of marital vow.
The embattled wife was said to have narrated to the bewildered
crowd that her husband abandoned his responsibilities to the family since he
got involved with his new spouse, adding that, several attempts to save the
marriage did not yield the desire results.
“I had to do this because I’m convinced my husband must have been
bewitched by the lady because since the rumour began making rounds he has
stopped taking care of his four children. Each time he is confronted to provide
money for our upkeep he often complained of not having money,” she allegedly
narrated.
It was gathered that she threatened to take legal action against
the council should they go ahead on a later date to wed them insisting that she
remains his legal wife.
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