A housewife, Sa’adatu Ayuba, has urged a Dei-Dei Grade 1 Area Court, to dissolve her 27-year-old marriage to her husband Jalija over alleged impotence.
The petitioner got married to Jalija in accordance with Islamic law in 1997, and was blessed with five children ages 25, 22, 14, nine and seven.
“I got married since I was 16-years-old. I had never been with any other man before my marriage.
“Since two years ago, I have been having misunderstandings with him because he got a girlfriend outside our marriage.
“He has not been functioning as a man; I am tired of the situation and his attitude. Now I want a divorce in the interest of justice,” she said.
In his response, Jalija said the petitioner’s allegation was false, noting that he had no girlfriend.
“I married another wife and I am performing perfectly as a man. The lady I married has one child for me; we got married in her village,” he said.
Jalija added that he has been playing his role as a husband to the petitioner. I am a real man.
The petitioner, however, faulted her husband’s claim, saying that the woman in question is his girlfriend.
Sa’adatu said she is not aware that her husband got married to the woman.
The judge, Malam Saminu Suleiman, gave the couple one week to settle their differences, and adjourned the matter to January 17, for feed-back.
– NAN