A 52 year old trader, Mrs Kuditat Ajayi has informed a Customary Court sitting in Igando, Lagos that she slept with her brother-in-law because she thought he was her husband.
Ajayi’s husband, Akande wants his 35 year old marriage dissolved on account of infidelity and spiritism.
”I was in bed in the night when my husband’s younger brother came to the house my husband rented for me.I thought he was my husband who normally comes to the house at that particular time between 9 p.m. and 10 p.m to play and sleep with me.It was after he finished making love to me that I realised that he was not my husband.
“When I queried him, he claimed that my husband had traveled that was why he came to have sex with me. I reported the case to my brother’s wife, who advised me not to tell my brother so that peace can reign in the family”, she told the court.
Ajayi prayed the court not to grant her husband’s request, claiming she still loves him. But the petition is hell bent on dissolving the 35 year old marriage on a second ground of spiritism.
“I once caught her burying something in my compound, I accosted her and tried to remove what she buried there but I could not.
I went out before I returned, she had cemented the place.”
“When I married her, I rented an apartment for her because I have other wives and I don’t want them to live together. I started hearing from people in the area that my wife was having affair with a man, initially I ignored it until her lover came claiming ownership of one of my children.
The man eventually came to the house but I refused to open the door for him. When I questioned my wife, she confessed that the man slept with her but that the affairs did not result in pregnancy.”
He begged the court to end the marriage that he was no longer interested that the love he once had for her husband had faded.
The president of the court, Mr Adeniyi Koledoye, urged the two parties to maintain peace and adjourned the case until August 22 for judgment.
