A 65-year-old Islamic cleric, Ibrahim Yusuf, who sought dissolution of his marriage to his fourth wife, Bolanle, on Thursday in Alimosho Customary Court in Lagos made a u-turn.
Yusuf told the court that he was still in love with Bolanle, adding that he had forgiven her of her bad behaviours and ready to continue the marriage.
He said: “I don’t want to divorce my wife again.
“I still love her and she has promised to turn a new leaf.”
The court President, Alhaja S.O. Mumuni, therefore, ordered the petitioner to write a letter of withdrawal and adjourned the case to February 10.
Yusuf had pleaded with the court to dissolve his 27-year-old marriage to Bolanle for alleged battery of his new wife.
The petitioner said Bolanle, with whom he had two children, had turned his new wife into a punching bag.
He said: “Bolanle did not allow my new wife to have peace in the house as she was always fighting and beating her at will.”
Yusuf described Bolanle as a troublesome woman, adding that respondent always fights him and in the process tears his clothes to pieces.
He said: “My wife is a good fighter.
“She fights me regularly and always makes sure that she tears my clothes into rags before leaving me.”
The cleric said that he married another wife because his fourth wife had stopped washing his clothes for more than seven years.
He said: “I married another woman because my fourth wife refused to wash my clothes and my other wives cannot wash them because it is the duty of the youngest wife to wash my clothes.”
Yusuf said he stopped eating foods prepared by Bolanle because he was afraid she might poison him through such process.
He said: “My wife always tells me that if she knew that I was going to marry another wife after her, she would have destroyed my life.
“So, due to her statement, I stopped eating her food because I don’t want to die now.”
Also, Bolanle, 56, a trader, admitted beating her husband’s youngest wife.
Bolanle told the court: “She looked for my trouble.
“When I came to the house to see my husband in respect of my children’s welfare, his wife started raining curses and abuses on me.
“So, I descended on her because I am not her mate.”
The mother of two, who pleaded that the court should not grant her husband’s wish, said her husband begged her to marry him.
She said: “He swore with the holy Quran that he would not marry another woman.
“He promised me then that I would be his last wife.
“I did not want to marry him because he already had three wives then.
“I later agreed to marry him when he swore with the Quran, but he failed to fulfill his vow.”
NAN.
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