“My wife is an unrepentant adulterer, but I won’t divorce her” – Husband tells court!

There was a little amusement at an Ado-Ekiti Customary Court, sitting in Ekiti State, Nigeria on Thursday when a 55-year-old hotelier (name withheld), who was dragged to the court by his wife seeking the dissolution of their marriage because of his consistent wife battering, told the court that his wife was an unrepentant adulterer, yet he was not willing to divorce her.

Everybody present at the court listened with wrap attention as he explained to the court the reason he was not willing to divorce his unrepentant wife.

According to him, he said that he had spent a fortune on her totaling over N8M, which includes a N3.5 million house he built for her.

He noted that their marriage had only
produced a three-year-old female child and that he would run into loss if the relationship was dissolved without the woman bearing more children for him.

While detailing some of his wife’s rendezvous, the hotelier disclosed that recently, he found a condom with fresh sperm in it on the floor of his room and asked the woman how the newly used condom got there while he was not around. He told the court that he was surprised when his wife told him that the condom must be the one they used about four months ago, saying that the woman was too promiscuous and allegedly had over eight male lovers.

To justify his claims, he said he sold one of his houses recently and gave the woman N300, 000 to start a trade, saying the woman went into beer and pepper soup business, which became a convergent center for her numerous lovers. The hotelier, who is also a school proprietor, said the men friends often romance the woman in his presence each time he was there to look at situation of things.

However, Mrs. Akomolede, who presided over the court adjourned the case till July 18, 2013, and ruled that the duo should maintain peace until the court finally gives its ruling. She ordered that the man should not beat the woman nor go to police station to arrest the woman, as he earlier threatened to do.