My Wife Hardly Stays At Home, Attends Owambe 4 Times In A Week - Husband

A 46-year-old businessman, Olukayode Atolagbe, has pleaded with an Igando Customary Court in Lagos State to dissolve his 18-year-old marriage over wife’s alleged frequent partying.

“My wife hardly stays at home as she frequently goes from one party to another, both during weekdays and at weekends.


“She cannot do without attending about three to four parties a week. Sometimes, she will go for days without bothering about what the children will eat,” Olukayode said.

He, however, described his wife as a “fighter and trouble maker,” saying that she always fought their tenants and would also fight him in public to the extent of tearing his clothes.

“Before I built my house, our landlords always ejected us from our apartments due to my wife’s frequent fighting with either the landlords’ wives or fellow tenants,” he said.

Olukayode said that the wife always stripped herself naked to swear at him and that such curses had been affecting his life and businesses.

He, therefore, begged the court to separate them, saying that he could no longer cope with her behaviour and that he did not love her again.

In her response, the defendant, Bisi Atolagbe, 40, a businesswoman, accused her husband of sleeping with one of their tenants.

“My husband is having an affair, I caught him red-handed with one of our tenants,’’ the mother of four told the court.

She, however, did not contest the allegation of frequently attending parties.

“Yes, I attend parties a lot, especially those organised by my friends, relatives and my customers, so that they can continue to patronise me,” she said.

She said that her husband wanted to kill her and that he once put a charm at her doorstep.

“If not for God that woke me, I would have been dead by now. I saw my husband dropping off something at my door.

“From my bed, I asked him what he was dropping and he said it was rat poison but we never saw any rat in the house.

“By the time I came down from my bed to see what he dropped, he had picked the thing and run back to his room,’’ she said.

Bisi said that her husband could not take any decision of his own except he first consulted with his family.

She said that it was the husband’s family members that were in charge of their affairs.

Bisi also accused her husband of starving her of sex, saying that he last slept with her in December.

She begged the court not to grant her husband’s wish and that she still loved him.

The court President, Mr R.I. Adeyeri, however, adjourned the case till October 31.