Mrs Helen Otike, occupation Trader, has
confessed in front of Igando Customary court in lagos state to dissolve her 18
year old marriage with his Husband, Godwin for refusing to have sex with her
for 9 years.
She said: “My husband does not want me to have a child; he
has refused to sleep with me. We live as strangers in the house: no intimacy,
no relationship.”
The petitioner said that her husband abandoned her in his
five-bedroom duplex seven years ago to marry another wife in Abuja.
According to her, “my
husband relocated to Abuja and left only me in the house he built; he refused
to take care of me. Whenever I call him, he always told me that he will call me
back, which he never did.
“On two occasions, I
travelled to Abuja. I was able to locate where he is working, but he refused to
take me to his house. It was later I heard that he had married another woman in
Abuja, who has children for him.”
She also described her
husband as a dubious fellow.
She said: “When my
husband went to Abuja, I connected him with my brother, who accommodated him
for two years and also introduced him to a business.
“But he duped the
people my brother introduced him to and ran away from my brother’s house and my
brother was arrested.”
She said that she also
discovered that her husband had a wife and three children before their
marriage, which he never told her.
She continued: “I
stumbled on pictures of my husband’s wedding. I confronted him with the
pictures and he confessed that he married the woman when he was in the world.
“I accepted his plea, but not long after, he impregnated another woman before
relocating to Abuja.”
She begged the court
to terminate the marriage that had not produced any child, claiming that she
wanted to move on with her life.
“My husband has
children from three women. I also want to be a mother, please dissolve the
union so that I can move on with my life,” she begged the court.
Rebutting the
allegations, Godwin Otike, a businessman, said that he stopped making love to
his wife when he heard that her mother was behind his predicament. According to
him, “my mother told me that my mother-in-law was responsible for my downfall,
which I strongly believed because my health and businesses were booming until I
married my wife.
“When my mother-in-law
was invited to come and say what she knows about my businesses and health, she
refused to come.
“Because of that, I
have to stop any intimacy with her daughter and that also made me to abandon
her in my house to relocate to Abuja to start a new life.”
The respondent said
that his wife was a good woman and that he loved her, but because of her
mother’s demonic nature he has to run for his dear life.
The President of the
court, Mr. Adegboyega Omilola, adjourned the case to February 28 for further
hearing.
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