He said that his wife always took his children to church, making them to abandon his own religion.
“I enrolled my children in an Islamic school but my wife withdrew them from the school and she was taking them to church.
“My wife has turned my house into a battle field because she is always fighting with her step daughters.
“She detests my children and was always fighting them as if they were her rival,” he alleged.
The petitioner said that he was fed up with the marriage of 13 years due to her bad conduct, but when he discovered that she was pregnant, he had to withdraw the suit.
According to him, Jumoke does not take care of him, she does not cook or wash his clothes.
He urged the court to dissolve the union because he was no longer in love with her, therefore not interested in the marriage.
The respondent, Mrs Jumoke Adesokan, 45, trader, told the court that she did not convert the children to Christianity, that they always went to her church with her because of free music training.
“My step daughters are making life miserable for me they turned me into a punching bag.
“If I report them to my husband, what he always says is that leave them, they will soon go to their husband’s houses, he will not even scold them,” she said.
According to her, Saliu had divorced his first two wives claiming that they had bad conduct.
Jumoke said that it was now her own turn to be discarded by her husband.
She explained that it was her husband that told her to stop cooking and washing his clothes, saying that he preferred his daughters to cook and wash his clothes.
Jumoke urged the court not to grant her husband’s wish because she was still in love with him.
The court president, Mr R.I. Adeyeri, adjourned the case till May 19 for further hearing. (NAN)
