An Idi-Ogungun customary court sitting in Ibadan on Wednesday dissolved a 10-year-old marriage between a 30-year-old woman, Alimot, and her 73-year-old husband, Nafiu Azeez. Alimot had filed a divorce suit on the grounds that her husband was in the habit of accusing her of having extra-marital affairs.
Alimot had told the court: “He is a jealous man; I dare not greet other men because of his suspicion about my movement.”
“My husband always accused me of infidelity because he felt he was too old to satisfy me sexually, but I was okay with the way he performed on bed,” she said.
Alimot described her estranged husband, a retired soldier as stubborn, who did not give her rest of mind.
The respondent, Azeez, however, agreed to the dissolution of the marriage, saying “she does not listen to instructions”
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“I warned her several times to stop her bad behaviours but she refused”.
The court’s President, Chief Mukaila Balogun, dissolved the union and awarded the custody of their only child Alimot.
Balogun ordered Azeez to pay N3,500 as monthly allowance for the maintenance of the child and warned both parties against fomenting trouble.
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