By Our Correspondent in Ibadan
An Ibadan-based house wife, Blessing Amuson,has told an Ile-Tuntun Customary Court in Ibadan to put an end to her three-year-old marriage to Babatunde, citing interference and ruin in her marriage by her father- in-law.
Amuson, who lives in Apata area of Ibadan, accused her in law, Johnson of poisoning her husband’s mind not to show her love anymore.
According to her, before her marriage to Babatunde, she got a good job in Lagos State and had agreement with Babatunde that she would continue working after their wedding.
Blessing said after the wedding, Babatunde changed his mind and asked her to abandon the job to stay with him in Ibadan, nothing that each time her husband visited his parents, they usually change his mind against her.
This development, she claimed, compelled her husband to throw her out of the house.
Blessing also told the court that the situation got worse one day, when she got home and discovered that Babatunde had changed the keys to the house, hence she could not gain entrance to the house.
The wife added that when she told Babatunde of the strange development, he told her that his father advised him to do so and also to stop her coming to his house.
She said even when her parents intervened and called Babatunde on three occasions to shoot the trouble, Babatunde refused to turned down the calls, adding that her husband’s parents ignored all efforts to settle the matter.
Mr Johnson, Babatunde’s father who represented his son as the respondent, however, denied all allegations made by Blessing.
Johnson, who told the court that Babatunde was out of town, said that Blessing and her parents were the architects of her problem.
He also denied telling his son to lock his wife out of their matrimonial home but noted that Babatunde could not stand Blessing’s waywardness.
According to Johnson, Blessing refused to get pregnant in preference for her National Youth Service Corps (NYSC).
He said that Blessing,a daughter of cleric, never conduct herself as a married woman as she kept wearing provocative dresses around,
At this juncture, Blessing’s mother countered Johnson’s allegation.
“My daughter’s father-in-law, should not have interfered and allow the couple to determine how they prefer to live and to stop meddling in their affairs,” she said.
Ruling on the case, Henry Agbaje, President of the Court, ordered Babatunde to appear in court but advised both parties to maintain status quo while he adjourned the case until Sept. 21 for judgment.
