Facebook Destroys Television Presenter’s Marriage to Banker

A banker, Mr. Olawale Adeyele, who was dragged before an Agege customary court, had his four-year old marriage crumbled like a pack of badly arranged cards as the court dissolved it with immediate effect.

The marriage dissolution was sequel to an application filed by his wife, Oladunni,  a program presenter with an lkeja based television station.

Olawale had told the court that his wife lacked care for him and the children, adding that she transfered her marital responsibility to the housemaid who always cooked their food and arranged his bed.

The respondent claimed that his wife‘s past was still haunting her, as she refused to stop relating with her ex-lover on Face book despite the fact that his love for her kept waxing stronger.

He alleged that Oladunni was dating her boss, saying he got to know when he was invited to a social function. “I suspected that something was going on (between the wife and boss), and when I confronted her, she flared up and rained curses on me”.

Olawale shed tears as he told the court that his wife packed out of her matrimonial home, a situation he said affected him so much so that he lost concentration at work and was suspended for three weeks.

Olawale pleaded that the court should not dissolve the marriage, because he still loved the wife passionately.

However, Oladunni informed the court that they lived together as husband and wife for four years, but she did not enjoy every bit of the relationship.

She alleged that her husband indulged in beating her mother when she (the mother) came to help her nurse their baby.  The situation, according to her, gave her serious concern and made her lose interest in the marriage.

“I soon realized that I made a mistake getting married to him, because l`m no longer comfortable living with him and I don`t want to have hypertension”.

While delivering judgement, the court president, Mr. Emmanuel Shokunle, said that evidence before him revealed that the union had broken down irretrievably.

He therefore dissolved the marriage, and ordered that they should go their separate ways.  Shokunle said the children should remain with their mother, while access was granted to Olawale at court premises every last Friday of the month.

The respondent was ordered to pay N10,000 monthly through the court for the upkeep of the children as well as N10,000 for school fees, while both parties should be responsible for the children‘s medical expenses.