A retired lecturer, Prof. Muritala Haroon, on Thursday told a Customary Court sitting in Mapo, Ibadan, Oyo State, that his wife, Afsat, did not heed the wise counsel of the court to perform her obligations in the matrimonial home for peace to reign.
The octogenarian had in February, filed for dissolution of his 52-year-old marriage on grounds of s3xual starvation and threat to life.
At the resumed hearing in a suit, Haroon said: ”my wife did not abide by the advice given to her by this court to allow peace to reign by agreeing to perform her wifely duties’’.
He had also alleged in his petition, that Afsat was fond of locking him out of the bedroom. “I can no longer cope with the attitude again. Worst still, she and her relatives want me dead. Afsat attempted to stab me. She is misleading our six children. She has turned them against me,” he said.
However, in her response, Afsat rejected the prayer for separation, but accused him of being promiscuous. “I cannot have anything to do with him because he slept with three wives of his close friend. My lord, Haroon slept with the three wives of the man who acted as an intermediary whenever we had problems”.
However, Afsat was conspicuously absent when she was called and nobody represented her in court at the last sitting.
President of the court, Chief Ademola Odunade, cautioned Haroon to exercise more patience. The court will work with the extended members of the family to resolve the matter amicably,” he said, and adjourned the case until May 17 for further hearing.
