Court dissolves teacher’s marriage over wife’s stubbornness, sexual starvation

A Grade A Customary Court sitting at Mapo in Ibadan, Oyo State, has dissolved a 13-year-old marriage between one Durojaye Akingbade and his estranged wife, Olabisi, on grounds of stubbornness and sexual starvation.
Pronouncing the marriage dissolved, the court President, S.M. Akintayo, held that the petitioner was no longer interested in continuing with the relationship and that the court could not force him to continue.
Ms Akintayo, therefore, ordered both Mr Akingbade and Ms Olabisi to go their separate ways in the interest of peace and tranquillity.
She granted the order restraining the respondent from harassing, threatening, disturbing and interfering in the private life of the petitioner henceforth.
Mr Akingbade, a teacher, had, in his earlier testimony, stated that his wife had stopped taking instructions from him even though he had not neglected any of his own obligations.
He further stated that since Ms Olabisi moved in with him as a wife, there had been troubles in his home.
“It got to a point when Olabisi stopped cooking for me and the children, such that the three children relied on food from our relatives. Worst still, she has been denying me sexual intercourse and has not allowed me my conjugal right for the past three years. Before then, I forced my way through because she did whatever pleased her.
“My lord, Olabisi has refused to pack out of my house, and so I disconnected the electrical supply to her apartment,” Mr Akingbade said.
In her response, Ms Olabisi, who also earned her livelihood as a teacher, however, refuted most of the claims by her husband.
Ms Olabisi described Mr Akingbade as a pathological liar and a womaniser, who usually returned home to practise whatever his friends told him to do.
“Akingbade’s friends usually influenced him that they had sex anytime they wished and anywhere. In fact, I decided to excuse myself from further sexual activities with him when he complained that he contracted a sexual disease through me. Even his younger brother died of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS). Furthermore, Akingbade married three wives between 2020 and 2024 without informing me,” she told the court.
Ms Olabisi further stated that Mr Akingbade’s mother was his best friend in terms of closeness.
(NAN)
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