Separate me from my husband, I want to enjoy my life, says housewife pregnant for boyfriend

A customary court in Mapo, Ibadan, has dissolved an eight-year-old marriage between Moshood Mustapha and his wife, Jelilat, after listening to their submissions on the divorce suit Jelilat had filed in the court. Jelilat told the court yesterday that Mustapha was “a wicked, crude and stubborn husband who cannot be pleased.” The mother of three, […]

A customary court in Mapo, Ibadan, has dissolved an eight-year-old marriage between Moshood Mustapha and his wife, Jelilat, after listening to their submissions on the divorce suit Jelilat had filed in the court.

Jelilat told the court yesterday that Mustapha was “a wicked, crude and stubborn husband who cannot be pleased.”

The mother of three, who said her husband never bothered to pay the bride price on her, insisted she regretted knowing Mustapha, let alone marrying him.

She said her husband once attempted to set her belongings ablaze before some neighbours intervened.

Jelilat said she moved out of the matrimonial home when she realised he was not ready to change his ways. “I am no more interested in him. One of our children is with me while the other two are with him. I cannot cope with him again as wife.  I want this court to separate us so that I can enjoy my life.”

Mustapha told the court he still loved his wife but was also no longer interested in the marriage as she had been impregnated by another man.

He said, “We didn’t have any disagreement before I left home for work that very day. But to my surprise, she moved out of the home without my consent.

“I had warned her against the type of friends she was keeping. Those friends taught her her present wayward life. There was a time she abandoned the home and I accepted her back a year later because I loved her. She finally left my house in 2016 and, to my surprise, she is now carrying another man’s baby. I am no more interested.”

The president of the court, Chief Ademola Odunade, dissolved the marriage and granted custody of the last child of the family to the plaintiff, while he ordered the defendant to take care of the two other children.