‘He’s arrogant, has no regard for my parents’

A house wife, Rasidat Odubonojo,  has told an Idi Ogungun Customary Court at Agodi, Ibadan, that her  husband  has no  respect for elders.

Her husband, Babatunde, had approached the court seeking dissolution of his three-year-old marriage to Rasidat on the grounds that his mother in-law was seeking to control  his matrimonial home.

According to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), the plaintiff also told the court that his wife packed out of her matrimonial home to live with her parents without notifying him.

But in her response, Rasidat told the court that arrogance, high temperament, selfishness and lack of respect for elders were the best words to describe the father of her one-year-old baby.

According to her, Babatunde pretended to be the best-behaved man on earth when courting her, only to reveal his real character after marriage.

“I saw hell in the first year of our marriage because I had three miscarriages and he never showed me love as he promised.

“It got to a point that I decided to quit the marriage, but my parents encouraged me not to divorce him, appealing that he would change when we have a baby.

“He had insulted my parents on several occasions when they were trying to settle our differences.

“I gave birth to the only child of the marriage through Caesarean Section which almost claimed my life.

“I packed out of my matrimonial home when I could no longer cope with his bad attitude towards  me and he did not bother to look after me nor the only child for three months.

“I support and agree with his decision to end the marriage because he is not worth to be called a responsible husband,” Rasidat told the court.

The court president, Chief Mukaila Balogun, in his judgment, said  it was clear  both parties no longer   love each other.

He, therefore, dissolved their marriage.

Balogun ordered the plaintiff to pay a  monthly allowance of  N5,000 for the upkeep of the only child in  the marriage.