A 29-year-old medical student, Mrs Ariyike Adebiyi, has appealed to an Agege Customary Court, Lagos, to dissolve her marriage to her husband because he was a dropout.
She said, “I can’t imagine myself
married to a dropout, if not that he charmed me. My marriage to Femi is nothing
but a mirage.
"I wanted to use Femi as my
case study when I was writing my project, but it turned out to this mess. My
family did not allow me to go with him after our engagement ceremony. I packed
my things to his house two months after the engagement and was maltreated by
his family," she said.
She added that her husband drinks,
smokes Indian hemp and comes home late at night, but she stayed on in the
marriage because she was pregnant. When she gave birth, her mother was the one
that settled the bills as her husband did not show up at the hospital.
Femi, an estate agent had told the
court that his parents-in-law prevented his wife from following him to his
house after their engagement, adding that they prevented him from seeing his
wife and child.
“I want the court to dissolve the
union and grant me the access to my child,’’ he prayed.
Ariyike is also seeking the custody
of their one-year-old child.
The Court President, Mr Emmanuel
Sokunle, told the couple to maintain the peace, and adjourned the case to Nov.
5 for judgment.
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