A businessman, Victor Odoemelam, on Tuesday, told an Igando Customary Court in Lagos that his wife, Blossom, makes life uncomfortable for him by comparing him to other men.
This is as he asked for the for dissolution of his union with the woman, alleging frequent fights, threat to life and lack of love.
The petitioner, a resident of No. 6, James Akinremi, St., Idimu, told the court that he wanted a divorce from his wife because she was fond of always threatening to kill him and was not taking care of the home front.
“She is always comparing me with other men and telling me I do not match up with them. She fights with me over anything and everything; the home has become too hot for me.
“Once, her mother and sister came with a bus full of boys harmed with knives to harm me, but one of the boys deemed it fit to call me aside and asked why my wife would send them to harm me.
“After hearing my own side of the story, they all left disappointed and concluded it was good they heard my own side of the story before taking any action.
“She has threatened me several times to the extent that I had to report to her uncle who was a commissioner of police and he tried to intervene, but my wife declined his invitation to come over.
“My wife will go out at will also and not prepare food for our three children,” he told the court.
Odoemelam also stated that he and his wife had an argument on a particular day after which she picked up a knife to stab him.
“I was saved by the voice of a plumber who was working on a faulty tap, telling me to run that my wife was bringing a knife to stab me. I want a divorce. I can’t cope again,” he said.
The respondent, Mrs Blessing Odoemelam, however, described all what her husband had said as lies, adding that he failed to tell the court that he had impregnated another lady, a situation that made him change towards her and vice versa.
Blossom, a trader, said that she had been denied privacy in her home since they were married, telling the court that her husband would bring home anybody.
The court President, Mr Adeniyi Koledoye, thereafter, adjourned the matter till Aug.16 for judgment.
