Court dissolves marriage of man who claims wife’s infidelity led to his ill health
By Uche Bibilari
An Greater Rental Court in Gwagwalada, Abuja, has dissolved a 15-One year-damaged-down marriage between a public servant, Okpanachi Yahaya and his estranged accomplice, Zainab Adejoh over infidelity.
The Contemplate, Malam Abdullahi Abdulkareem, dissolved the wedding in line with Islamic Law, following Yahaya’s prayer for divorce on grounds of infidelity.
Abdulkareem ordered Adejoh to ogle “Iddah” (ready length) of three months in line with Islamic injunction, sooner than contracting any other marriage.
He added that the subject of diminutive one custody which the petitioner brought sooner than the court docket must be filed as a separate suit.
Earlier, the petitioner had told the court docket that he got married to the respondent below Islamic law on Sept.14, 2019, and is blessed with two early life, ages 14 and 12.
He talked about that he seen that the respondent began having extramarital affairs in 2019.
“I seen Adejoh hiding within the kitchen talking to any other man and after I interrogated her, she assaulted me bodily and verbally,” Yahaya talked about.
He talked about that he had been ill within the final four months, hospitalised and within the slay taken to his village in Kogi nonetheless the respondent by no manner visited him and endured her illicit relationships.
He talked about the respondent went to his location of job while he turned into away within the village and picked up money on his behalf with out his consent.
Yahaya talked about that it turned into chanced on in preserving along with his native law and custom that the muse of his ailment turned into the respondent’s illicit relationships with other men.
“Adejoh turned into invited by my kinsmen for a quiet decision relating to our dispute nonetheless she declined.
“There may be now no longer any extra admire and peace within the wedding, I want the wedding dissolved, ” he talked about.
The respondent, alternatively, consented to the divorce.
(NAN)
