My husband threatens to make me mad, wife alleges

*Asks court to separate them

A caterer, Nike Adegboyega, has dragged her estranged husband before a Customary Court in Lagos over threats to life with charms, and alleged battery.

Nike, a mother of two who resides in Ogba, Lagos on Thursday, begged the court to dissolve the 8-year-old union between her and her husband, Moshood, because, she alleged, he is irresponsible and troublesome.

She told the court that she had sought the court’s help over the dissolution because she is not safe with her husband who she accused of threatening to make her run mad.

“Please, separate me from this man. I want to live to take care of my children with my sanity intact,” she pleaded.

The petitioner who informed the court that she does not love her husband any more also alleged that he is very deceptive.

“He pretended and lie to me when we started the relationship and my mother warned me severely against getting married to him.

“I married him because I thought we were in love but he has questionable characters and he is not responsible.
I paid for my discharge fee after I had my first child through ceasarian section.
When he could not afford the fee, he had to charter a tricycle to take me to the hospital with drip in my arm to withdraw money from my account.

“He beat me often and he has once battered me over a bag of pure water which I insisted I will not buy. They know us at Area G police station because I had reported him there on several occasions.

He does not drop feeding allowance for me and the kids, I single-handedly takes care of the family because I work as the head of the caterering in a hospital.

“My husband sometimes displays money before me and he will tell it to my face that he was going to a brothel to sleep with a prostitute.

“I ran away from the house when he threatened to make me go mad and I was advised to leave his house before he make do with his threat.
I have to break into the house because immediately I left, he changed the locks.

“Please dissolve the union between us because he keeps so many charms at home and I don’t know what he is doing with them”, Nike begs.

The husband, Moshood Adegboyega, a commercial bus driver, denied the allegations, pleading with court not to dissolve the union.

He claimed that he was doing his best to provide for his wife and children, saying “I did not beat or batter her.
“I only came back from work on a fateful day and discovered that my wife have packed all the things in the house.
“I called her mum to inform her of the development but she was just raining curses on me.

“I have been having issues with her mother before we got married, her mother does not like me. He said.

The respondent further alleged that the petitioner do attend party with her mother without going informing him of her whereabouts.
“Whenever I tried to correct her, she refused to heed nor apologize.
She once accused me that I wanted to strangle her but I have never touched her.

Moshood also affirmed before the court that he is a devoted Muslim and he is not involved in charms.

The couple were however admonished to maintain peace pending the court’s decision on the case.