With these emotional words, Mrs. Modupe Olubayo urged an Orile-Agege Grade ‘B’ Customary Court, Lagos, to dissolve her four-year-old marriage to Dehinde Olubayo, a professional footballer, on the grounds of threat to life and frequent beating.
But according to Olubayo, his wife wants to leave him after finishing his money.
39-year-old Olubayo of 17, Kelani Street, Orile-Agege, denied the allegations. “I am a professional footballer. I was in training for four months in Ghana when my wife threatened to kill herself if I did not come home”, Olubayo said.
"Because I love my wife, I terminated the contact I had with my club and came to Nigeria. She told me that she didn’t want me to leave her for a night, so I looked for another job but couldn’t find. I spent all the money I had on her and when the money finished, she refused to assist me in providing for the family. She nags a lot, talks too much and she is materialistic. If she wants to leave me, no problem, life goes on”.
The 28-year-old woman, Modupe, who now lives at 33, Omidokun Street, Agbado, Lagos, had told the court that her marriage to her husband was not peaceful. "My husband doesn’t care for me and the children. He doesn’t give us money. Rather, he steals from the little I have. He is lazy and not ready to work," she said.
Modupe told the court that she had made up her mind to dissolve the marriage. The mother of three asked the court for the custody of the children.
Court President, Mr Joseph Adewusi, adjourned the case for further hearing.
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