Lagos Businessman Divorces His Wife Over Adultery

A property developer's accusations of illicit affairs against his wife, a textile dealer, have ended their three-year old marriage.

The marriage between 36yrs old Tawakalitu and Mr Lateef Lawal was dissolved by an Igando Customary Court in Lagos on Friday.

Mr. Lawal, 50, had filed a suit seeking the dissolution of the three-year-old marriage on grounds of infidelity, defamation of character and threat to life. He said his wife is a cheap adulterous woman.







“I caught my wife making love with a man at a corner when we went for a Christmas party. Anyway, I do not blame her for the infidelity because I met her at a club,” the businessman said.

He said his in her desperate bid to rubbish him, his wife accused him of having s*x with his little daughter and invited the presenter of a Lagos Television programme - “Labe Orun” - to expose it.

“My wife is fetish... I discovered a snail, a cow horn and other charms in her wardrobe. She goes out at will and I can count the number of days she stayed at home throughout our three-year marriage.’’

He told the court that he had disowned the only child of the marriage because he did not want anything that would bring him and Tawakalitu together again.

The estranged wife, Tawakalitu, denied the allegations: “I am not fetish, it is my husband that is fetish.”

The court’s President, Mr Adegboyega Omilola, said: “All efforts to reconcile both parties had failed. Since both parties consented to the dissolution of the marriage, this court has no choice than to dissolve it. This court hereby pronounces the marriage between Lateef Lawal and Tawakalitu Lawal dissolved today; you henceforth cease to be husband and wife.

“Both are free to go their separate ways without any hindrance or molestation.”