A Lagos Court on Thursday saved a 12-
year-old marriage between Mr Femi Ajayi
and his wife, Modupe.
The Court President, Mr R.I Adeyeri, was
able to reconcile the estranged couple
through thorough counselling.
Adeyeri ordered Modupe to write an
undertaking that she would change her
attitudes and admonished the couple to
maintain the peace.
The petitioner, Mr Femi Ajayi, 45, legal
practitioner, had filed a suit seeking
dissolution of his 12-year-old marriage over
threat to his life, arrogance and extravagant
life style.
He said that his wife always threatened his
life with dangerous weapons whenever they
were fighting by picking a knife or other
sharp objects to stab him.
He described Modupe as a pompous,
disrespectful and arrogant woman.
“She is so full of herself and does not have
respect for me despite all I have done for
her, I bought her four cars within our 12
years of marriage, yet she does not have
regard for me.
“She does thing without telling me; she
travelled out of Nigeria without my
consent”.
Femi accused his wife of living
extravagantly, using any money she got to
buy jewellery to the extent that she spent
N250,000 meant for his children’s school
fees.
He said that he would have divorced her
two years ago, but he thought she would
change and that they were living as
enemies in the house as they had stopped
talking to each other since June, 2013.
In her defence, Mrs Modupe Ajayi, 40,
businesswoman, told the court that her
husband was a “womaniser” and had slept
with her best friend.
“My husband runs after anything in skirt; I
caught him making love to my best friend
in her house.
“I refused to employ any house help again
as he has turned them into sex machines,”
Modupe said.
She said that she stopped having sex with
her husband since September 2013
because she always had infection days
after he made love to her.
“I stopped making love to him and I
stopped washing his clothes when I
discovered I always see and smell sperm on
his boxers,” she said.
The mother of three said that a day after
their wedding, her husband abandoned her
to stay with another woman and lied to her
that he travelled to see his father in the
village.
“I called his father when he did not show up
for days, but he told me that he did not see
my husband”.
Modupe said that she later discovered the
lady’s number on his phone and she called
her to leave her husband alone.
“After I warned her on phone, my husband
rushed home, dragged me out of the
bathroom naked, beat me for calling his girl
friend.
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