Worried by his wife’s
adulterous acts, Mr Kolawole Okeeyi, a businessman, on Wednesday approached the
Igando Customary Court in Lagos to terminate his 31-year-old marriage.
Okeeyi,
51, accused his wife, Funmilayo, with whom he had five children of infidelity.
“My
wife is having an affair with my pastor, I got to know when I did not have
credit on my phone and wanted to use her phone to call our pastor to report her
for starving my mother of food.
“I picked her phone and
I saw on the screen “sent message”. I mistakenly clicked on it and the message
opened, I saw several love messages my wife sent and received from our pastor.
“I
showed her the messages when she came in, but she begged me, I seized the phone
and later confronted our pastor with those text messages, but he told me to do
my worst.
“I
also caught her with my brother in a hotel in Oyo State; I wanted to ignore
them, but I later confronted them so that they will not deny later,” he said.
The
petitioner said his wife was after his life and that he had been attacked on
two occasions.
“I picked her phone and
I saw on the screen “sent message”. I mistakenly clicked on it and the message
opened, I saw several love messages my wife sent and received from our pastor.
“I
showed her the messages when she came in, but she begged me, I seized the phone
and later confronted our pastor with those text messages, but he told me to do
my worst.
“I
also caught her with my brother in a hotel in Oyo State; I wanted to ignore
them, but I later confronted them so that they will not deny later,” he said.
The
petitioner said his wife was after his life and that he had been attacked on
two occasions.
However, Funmilayo, 43,
trader, denied all the allegations. She said she was not having an affair with
any man.
“Those
text messages on my phone were forged; I never sent nor received any love
messages from our pastor.
“My
husband saw me and his brother in a hotel, but we are not dating, his brother
just followed me to book for a room when I went for a burial in Oyo State.
She
accused her husband’s family of battery.
“When
I was pregnant for our fifth baby, my husband’s family stormed our house,
accusing me of having an affair, they beat me to pulp, in fact, I don’t know
how I got to the hospital,” she said.
The
mother of five boys begged the court not to grant her husband’s wish as she was
still in love.
The
Court President, Mr Adegboyega Omilola, adjourned the case to Nov. 29 for
further hearing.
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NAN
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