I am better off living alone than dead – Divorce-seeking man tells court

Toheeb Shafiu, a resident of Beyerunka area in Ibadan, who has been married for three years, on Wednesday, dragged his wife, Fatimo, before the customary court in Ibadan, seeking for divorce after threatening him with a machete.

“I am better off living alone than dead,” Shaifu said

“Fatimo has been after my life since I impregnated another girl that I dated before I married her.

”She has made attempts on my life with a machete. She attacked me on a number of occasions with broken bottles.

”I am not safe anymore living under the same roof with her. She destroyed my belongings and curses me at will,” Shafiu alleged.

NAN reports that Fatimo objected the divorce and has refused to defend herself on the allegation.

She accused her husband for being a chronic womanizer.

“Shafiu lied to me that he was not seeing the woman he got pregnant. I later discovered that he kept her in his parent’s home.

“As a result, he comes home only when he feels like. When I challenged him, he held me in a chokehold and beat me,” she alleged.

The Court’s President, Chief Henry Agbaje, advised the couple to remain in peace.

He called for more evidence to support their claims.

Agbaje asked both parties to bring their relative on the next visit and it was adjourned till August 31 for judgment.

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