A housewife, Busayo
Ogunjobi, has urged an
Ado-Ekiti Customary
Court in Ekiti State to
dissolve her 13-year-
old marriage to Ayodele Ogunjobi over
alleged frequent
beating and adultery. Twenty-six-year-old
Busayo also urged the
court to dissolve the
marriage over her
husband's alleged lack of
care for the only child of the union. She told the court that
Ayodele was fond of
going about with
different women, adding
that anytime her husband
came home with a woman, he would ask her
to sleep on the mat. "My lord, anytime my
husband brought home a
woman, he would ask me
to sleep on the mat so that
the woman can sleep on
our matrimonial bed,'' she said. She told the court that
Ayodele denied being the
biological father of the
only child of their
marriage. According to her, Ayodele
abandoned her and the
child when the child was
three months old. Ayodele, 32, denied
beating his wife because
of another woman. He told the court he did
not believe the said child
was his, adding that he
did some private
investigations which did
not favour the petitioner. This he said was the
reason he did not provide
for the upkeep of both
mother and child. The court's president, Mr
Joseph Ogunsimi,
adjourned the case till
February 11 for further
hearing.