A welder, Mr Busayo Adepoju, 30, on Wednesday asked an Ado-Ekiti Customary Court to dissolve his three-year-old marriage with his wife, Toyin, 23.
The reports that the petitioner is seeking the dissolution of the marriage on the grounds of adultery, laziness and lack of care for him and their child.
Adepoju, a resident of No. 120, Ajilosun Street, Ado-Ekiti, said that he did not contract any marital rites with the respondent but that she had a male child named Ayomide for him.
The petitioner said that the respondent was an adulterous woman and often received different phone calls from other men.
He told the court that and at times, the estranged wife would not sleep at home for three days.
Adepoju said he queried the respondent but she fought him and packed her belongings and left his house.
He told the court that whenever they had a misunderstanding the respondent often destroyed his phones, television set, private documents and receipts, among other valuables.
The petitioner further told the court that the respondent neither cleaned his house nor prepared good meals for him.
He prayed the court to dissolve the marriage and award the custody of the child to him for proper care.
Adepoju assured the court that he would be responsible for the education of the child at all levels.
Toyin, a fashion designer, and resident of Gbamgboye Street, Ado-Ekiti, denied all the allegations leveled against her by the petitioner.
The respondent said it was the petitioner that often encouraged her to indulge in adultery using social network such as Facebook and WhatsApp.
She said she never destroyed the property of the petitioner and was not lazy because she always cleaned the house and washed his clothes.
Toyin however agreed with the petitioner that the court should dissolve their marriage but appealed that the court should award the custody of the child to her.
She prayed the court to compel the petitioner to be paying her N5,000 monthly feeding allowance for the child.
The President of the court, Mrs Olayinka Akomolede, adjourned the case till March, 15, for judgment.