Lagos couple granted divorce after husband claims he caught his wife in bed with her pastor

LAGOS couple Tunji and Romoke Oyedele have had their 23-year marriage annulled by an Igando Customary Court after the husband accused his wife of infidelity by sleeping with her church pastor.

 

Mr Oyedele, 52, accused his wife of adultery, engaging in fetish activities and attempting to kill him and after all efforts to reconcile the couple failed, the court granted them a divorce. Romoke, a 40-year-old trader, who denied the allegations, told the court that the man was sending her away because he now has a new wife.

 

Court president Adegboyega Omilola, said the court had no option than to separate the couple as the husband was adamant to all mediation efforts by the court and his family. During the hearing, Mr Oyedele had accused his wife of engaging in sexual recklessness and infidelity

 

Mr Omilola said: “Since the petitioner insisted on divorce after several interventions, the court has no choice than to dissolve the union in spite of the fact that the wife still claims she loves her husband. The court pronounces the marriage between Mr Tunji Oyedele and Mrs Romoke Oyedele dissolved today, both parties henceforth cease to be husband and wife and are free to go their separate ways without any hindrance and molestation.”

 

“My wife is promiscuous, whenever I travel, my wife brings men into our house and on two occasions, I caught her with her lovers in our bedroom. One day, I came home unannounced and caught her with one of her lovers in our bedroom.

 

“On another occasion, I caught her with another man who she claimed was her pastor. She claimed that the said pastor wanted to take her to a river for a special bath to avert spiritual attack,” Mr Oyedele told the court.

 

He further alleged that his wife was fetish and always in possession of different charms, pointing out that he saw different strange objects in his bathing water, food and everywhere in the house. According to Mr Oyedele, there was a day he entered her room in her absence and saw feathers tied with clothes and other diabolical objects.

 

Mr Oyedele added: “I believe that my persistent illness, which has deferred medical solution, is as a result of her fetish acts. I have been forced to leave my own house because I don’t want to die now.”

 

The 52-year-old businessman, who presented the pictures of the charms as exhibit, also said that his wife got pregnant for another man after she had their first baby. He added that his wife abandoned their10-month-old baby and got pregnant for another man but came back after some years and he accepted her.

 

He also said his wife chased away his first wife who did not bear him any child by always mocking and calling her a barren wife. Romoke, however,  refuted the allegations, insisting that she was not adulterous, saying she was not fetish and did not know how the charms got into her room.

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