DIVORCE COURT: ‘My wife has a secret love child and she’s still seeing her ex-lover’

[Mirror]

•He is an ingrate but I still want the marriage –Wife

Abass Owoeye, a 32-yearold computer engineer who resides at Yaya Abatan Street in Ogba area of Lagos has filed a divorce suit against his wife Fadeke, a 28-year-old business administrator who works in a manufacturing firm in Lagos.

Abass disclosed before the court that after being married to his wife for two years without a child, he discovered that his wife had a secret love child for a man she once dated years back and she never told him.

"We courted for about four years before we got married two years ago and not for once did she tell me that she had a daughter. She so concealed that fact from me and none of her relatives even told me anything. Let us even say she was scared I will not marry her if I get to know, what about after our marriage? She kept it away from me.

So how am I supposed to ever trust her or believe anything she tells me? When I even asked her about it, she was denying it and people who knew were the ones that told me.

They even told me she is still seeing her ex-lover. She is not even sober and will rather shout me down each time I ask questions pertaining to the issue. I don't want frustration for myself in life.

Since she prefers her ex to me and she is still seeing him, which to me, is an indication that she is still interested in him; she should just leave me in one piece so I can live my life in peace.

I want this court to dissolve the union"| said Abass. Fadeke on the other hand said that her husband is an ingrate who does not remember the past good deeds she had done for him and wants to use trivialities as an excuse to send her away.

"This man is not a grateful person at all. If he would remember how he was seven years ago when I first met him, he would not be the one standing here to make these allegations against me. He was nobody when I met him.

But today, he can boast of a good business venture. If I don't love him, why would I have gone through all that for him? Although I did not tell him initially that I had a daughter, I told him after we got married. He is only using that as an excuse now to break free from me because he feels he has used me enough and now wants to marry another girl he has been dating. It is not true that I have been seeing the father of my child. The man is even married to somebody else now. He is just looking for flimsy excuses to opt out," she said.

Fadeke however said she is still interested in the marriage and will not want the marriage dissolved. "I still want the marriage and will not want it dissolved," she said. After hearing out both parties, the case was adjourned to December 11, 2013 for further hearing and possible reconciliation.