Man loses 18-year-old marriage to wife’s friend’s pant

An Igando Customary Court in Lagos has
on Friday, April 21, dissolved an 18-year-
old marriage between Mrs Taiwo Bolumade
and her husband, Olajide, over counter
allegations of infidelity and battery.
This dissolution came after several
unsuccessful attempts to reconcile the
couple.
42-year-old Mrs Taiwo Bolumade had
told the court that she stumbled on a
message where her friend was begging
her 45-year-old husband, Olajide, to
return her pant.
“My husband is dating my married friend
and I discovered this when I was with
his cell phone. Then, a whatsApp
message entered with my friend’s picture
appearing on the screen begging my
husband to return her pant.
“I showed my husband the message; he
confessed that he was having an illegal
affair with her that I should forgive him.
I also went to my friend’s house to
confront her for having an illegal affair
with my husband. She also begged me
that I should not let her husband hear
about it and promised to end the
relationship with my husband,” Mrs
Taiwo Bolumade said
Mrs Bolumade who is a mother of four,
also claimed that her husband threatens
to kill her whenever any little thing
happens.
“My husband is used to beating me up
using dangerous weapons; recently he
threatened to kill me. Anytime I received
a call, my husband would demand for my
cell phone to know if it were a man that
called; and if I refused to surrender it to
him, he would beat the hell out of me. He
once attacked me on the bed with a
cutlass; threatening to machete me but I
escaped by the whiskers,” she said.
Mrs Bolumade said that her husband
had refused to eat food prepared by her
in the past three years. She therefore
begged the court of law to dissolve their
marriage.
Olajide, who denied her wife’s
allegation of infidelity, accused Taiwo of
having an extra-marital affair with
another man.
“My wife is having an affair with a man;
I had caught them severally behind a
transformer where they were always
meeting around 11p.m. She and her lover
arrested me on two occasions, accusing
me of always calling her lover’s cell
phone and threatening his life, an
allegation I knew nothing about,” he
said.

Olajide also described his wife as “an
ingrate”, alleging that he bought two
cars for her when his business was
booming but when it crashed, she
started misbehaving.
“In fact, she even invited the police to
arrest me claiming I stole her N100,000
of which I am innocent of,” he said.
The husband said he stopped eating
foods prepared by his wife because she
was fond of abusing him before serving
him.
Olajide, however, urged the court to
grant his wife’s application for divorce,
saying he was also fed up with the 18-
year-old marriage.
The president of the court, Mr
Adegboyega Omilola, in his judgment
said that it appeared that the couple was
fed up with the marriage as all efforts to
reconcile them had failed. He later
dissolved the marriage.