Emotions As Sex Starved Nigerian Wife Seeks Divorce

Mrs Mariam AbdulLateef, a housewife, on Wednesday prayed an Ilorin Area Court to dissolve her marriage to her husband, AbdulLateef Tahjudeen, alleging lack of sex.

Mariam, who resides at number 144, Cemetery Road, Irewolede Area, Ilorin, told the court that she got married to her husband in 2016 in accordance with Islamic law and that the marriage is blessed with a seven-year-old child.

She, however, lamented the lack of sex in the marriage saying that Tahjudeen stopped performing his responsibility about seven years ago, and abandoned their matrimonial bed after she gave birth to their daughter.

“He does not even sleep in the same room nor touch me, and any time I ask for his attention, he tells me to leave his house whenever I am tired of the marriage,” she said.

Mariam pleaded with the court to dissolve the marriage, to enable her to remarry over the lack of sex.

“My husband has been tormenting me with accusations of having extra marital affairs and yet did not touch me, which is affecting my state of mind,” she pleaded.

The husband, however, told the court that he had health challenges and had been trying hard to cure the illness that caused his inability to satisfy his wife.

He told the court that he was not willing to divorce his wife, saying he still loved her dearly and appreciated all her patience and perseverance as concerning her complaint over the lack of sex.

The Presiding Judge, Mr Hammad Ajumonbi, said that sex was important in marriage and any case of starvation of any party should not be taken with levity.

Ajumonbi, however, advised the wife to exercise more patience over the lack of sex and encouraged the husband to try and settle the issue between them amicably.

The judge then adjourned the case until Feb. 20, for report of settlement. (NAN)

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