A 42-year-old housewife, Mrs. Taiwo Oluwanisola, yesterday told an Igando Customary Court in Lagos State how she stumbled on a message where her friend was begging her husband, Olajide Oluwanisola, 45, to return her pants.
Taiwo said this in an application she filed before the court seeking the dissolution of her 18-year-old marriage to her clearing-agent husband over alleged infidelity. She said: “My husband is dating my married friend and I discovered this when I was with his cell phone.
Then, a WhatsApp message entered with my friend’s picture appearing on the screen begging my husband to return her pants. “I showed my husband the message; he confessed that he was having an affair with her that I should forgive him. “I also went to my friend’s house to confront her for having an affair with my husband. She also begged me that I should not let her husband hear about it and promised to end the relationship with my husband.”
The petitioner, a mother of four, also alleged that her husband had developed the habit of threatening to kill her with dangerous weapons at the slightest provocation. She added: “My husband, who used to beat me up using dangerous weapons, also threatened to kill me.
Anytime I received a call, my husband would ask for my cell phone to know if it was a man that called. If I refused to surrender it to him, he would beat the hell out of me. “He once attacked me on the bed with a machete, threatening to cut me into pieces but I escaped by a whisker.”
