A 49-year-old civil servant, Gabriel Gbelelola, has dragged his wife, Bisilola, to an Ikorodu Customary Court in Lagos, seeking dissolution of his 13-year-old marriage.
Gbelelola told the court that his wife was denying him regular sex, keeping late nights and also lacked capacity to take proper care of their? matrimonial home.
The complainant, living at No. 1 Oduyebo St., Odonguyan in Ikorodu, also accused his wife of receiving late night calls from different men.
“My wife keeps late night and at times she does not come home at all, she pays no attention to the family again.
“She receives calls from different men in the night and she has denied me of my sexual right for a while now.
“She is not submissive at all and when I report her to her family, they usually take side with her.
Bisilola, 42, a petty trader, denied the accusations and urged the court not to dissolve the union.
“Although my husband had lied about his genotype before we got married, he was AS; I got to know when our first child died because he had sickle cell.
“My husband had also told me that he would marry another woman that was why he wants to divorce me. I pray this court to help us settle this matter, I don’t want to live my husband, “ she said.
The President of the court, Mrs Remilekun Adesanya, observed that there was still room for reconciliation.
She adjourned the case till July 18 for possible reconciliation. (NAN)