A man had approached an Igando Customary Court in Lagos State on Monday to dissolve his 10-year-old marriage.

Mr Joel Ocholi charged his wife, Felicia, for adultery, following the way she displays the portrait of her ex-boyfriend in their room.

Ocholi attested that, “On several occasions, I have ordered her to remove the pictures and stopped calling the man but she refused. When I could no longer condone it, I removed those pictures and burnt them.

“Felicia started moving around with men when my business was no longer flourishing”

According to NAN reports, it’s recorded that “the 45-year-old printer had been denied sex from his wife for two years without reason”.

He said that his wife returned the bride price to him, claiming that he was not responsible, which her claimed husband’s irresponsibility aided her want for divorce.

“She removed all our enlarged pictures hanged in the sitting room, our photo album and destroyed them. She also gathered all our uniform clothes and burnt them,’’ the 45-year-old man lamented.

The petitioner described his wife as a heartless fellow, saying that she was jubilating when his mother died and that she told him that he was the next person to die.

Ocholi affirmed that his spouse’s ego tends to prompt her to be behaving like the head at home.

“She does things in her own way and does not take my advice.

“When our pastor came to us and begged us to lend him N2 million, I told our pastor in the presence of my wife that we do not have money.

“My wife went to borrow N1 million each from my brother and her colleague in the office and gave it to our pastor without my knowledge.

“I got to know when there was a fight between her and our pastor over the money. It is three years now, the money had not been paid, I am the one paying her debt in installment to my brother,” he added.

The petitioner thereby urged the court to dissolve the marriage, as he was no longer interested; claiming that the love he had for his wife from the outset has faded.

Felicia responding to these accusations opposed her engagement in extra-marital affairs but rather accused her husband of being unfaithful.

Just like her husband, she also added her own side of the story, narrating cases whereby she claimed her husband is guilty.

“A woman brought a boy of three-year old to our house at 11p.m., claiming my husband is the father and that she had come to take her rightful place. But when I queried Joel, he said nothing.

“He borrowed money from me that he wanted to use it to do something important but later confessed that he used the money to rent an apartment for the woman,’’ the 40-year-old business woman attested.

She proceeded in giving account of a scenario when her spouse wanted to kill her because of the alleged extra-marital affair, and that prompted her to return her bride price to him.

“My husband told me that he went to an herbalist to get something to put in my body that if I sleep with another man, I will die, which the herbalist advised him not to do it.

“That was why I returned the bride price because my life is no longer safe in his house,’’ Felicia added.

The 40-year-old business woman said she assisted her husband with a business but he gave her nothing from the end product of the business, nor provide for her and the only child of the marriage.

Felicia said that her husband refused to leave his family house.

“There was an agreement when we got married that after we build our house we will move out of his family house. We now built two houses of six flats in Lagos, yet Joel refused to leave,’’ she said.

The respondent urged the court to grant her husband’s wish for the dissolution of their union.

The Court’s President, Mr Adeniyi Koledoye, after listening to the submissions of the duo urged the couple to maintain peace, as he adjourned the case to June 13 for further hearing.