Akolade Arowolo, who allegedly
murdered his banker wife, Titilayo Arowolo,
Thursday, told an Ikeja High Court that his late wife
preferred her ex-boyfriend to him and their baby.
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Arowolo said this while giving testimony in his self
defence.
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He told the court that they got married on August
8, 2008 and were blessed with a child.
Arowolo... the alleged killerwolo
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Arowolo, who is a graduate of Genetics from the
University of Lagos said he met his wife during his
post-graduate programme when he helped her to
sort out some academic challenges, pointing out
that one of the reasons they had problems in their
marriage was because of ego and immaturity and
not because of violence.
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According to him, the problems he had with his
wife forced him to leave his house to sleep in a
friend's place one night, expressing surprise that
the deceased did not call him throughout the night.
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Arowolo stressed that he, however, returned home
the next day because he was missing her and the
baby, but added that when he got home he decided
to check his wife's telephone to see if she made
any calls the previous night.
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His words: "I discovered that she called three
people the previous night when I went through the
call logs. I noticed that she called her father, her ex-
boyfriend, Ehime and one other person I don't
know; so I didn't know how to confront her. I was
thinking of how to present the matter to her so I decided that I will ask her while we were eating. So,
when we started eating I told her that it was not
funny that I did not come home last night and she
never called me.
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"She said she did not have credit and I said but you
had credit to call daddy, your ex-boyfriend and one
other person and my wife got very angry and said I should never touch her telephone again, that she
had the right to call anybody she so wished and in
my presence she called her ex-boyfriend.
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"For the first time in our marriage I slapped her and
she ran out of the house and left my baby behind."
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He said he had never for once beaten his wife
before that incident when he slapped her in June
2011.
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"My style was whenever she came home with any
funny character, I would leave the house," he
added, even as he also blamed his wife's family for
interfering in their marriage.
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Arowolo told Justice Lateefa Okunnu that his wife
once told him that she did not know why she kept
obeying her step mother, adding that she felt like
she was hypnotized by the woman.