An Ibadan-based factory worker, Stephen Oyediran, has informed the Mapo Grade A Customary Court how his wife’s alleged serial adultery forced him to tell one of her lovers to take her away and be sleeping with her. 

He is praying the court to dissolve their eight-year-old marriage over alleged adultery.

“Worse still, Busayo is into extramarital affairs with the headmaster of the school where she now teaches in Ibadan,” added the beleaguered husband.
“When I could no longer bear the embarrassment, I told the headmaster to stick to Busayo and leave my three children for me to take care of. This is the reason why the headmaster got me arrested.”

Mr Oyediran, who resides at Challenge, Ibadan, explained that he made up his mind to divorce his wife who refused to be faithful.

“After Busayo (estranged wife) agreed to marry me in Ondo, I never knew that she was still sleeping with (other) men. When she eventually moved in with me, I noticed that Busayo was living a flamboyant life and not ready to receive instructions from me,” the plaintiff told the court. “In addition, she was always looking for opportunities to go to Ondo to meet her concubine.”

He added that he saw some secret love messages between his wife and another man.

He further told the court that his wife rented an apartment “close to the headmaster’s home.”
“With my little earning, I have been doing all I could to cater for her and the children,” Mr Oyediran lamented.

In her statement, the wife accused her husband of unnecessary suspicion and irresponsibility.

“My lord, Oyediran initially denied responsibility that he impregnated me for our first child. After accepting it, he begged me and we moved on.

Oyediran could no longer pay the children’s school fees and we shouldered the responsibility together because I teach in that school,” she explained.
The estranged wife added that her husband “kept accusing me of insulting his mother which I never did.”

The divorce-seeking wife added, “Oyediran no longer informs me about anything he wants to do. Also, Oyediran has denied me access to our first male child because he has taken him to his hometown in Awe, Oyo state, where his relatives live.”

When both parties closed their arguments, the court’s president S.M. Akintayo adjourned the suit until March 18 for judgment.

(NAN)