"My pastor-husband is fetish, he married me using charms (juju)," a 39-year-old businesswoman, Mrs Ayomide Ajayi, has told a Lagos court.

 She accused her husband, Kayode, with whom she had five children in their 18-year-old marriage of being fetish.

"When I was single, my husband approached me that he wanted to marry me, I told him that I had a fiancé and that our marriage was near.

"Kayode came back the following day and touched me, I don't know how I got to his village, and I started having babies.

``As an orphan nobody looked for me, but now I am back to my senses," she told an Igando Customary in a Lagos suburb.

 The petitioner accused her husband of infidelity.

"My husband was in the habit of bringing his lovers to our one-room apartment to spend days or months before leaving.

"I always leave the bed for them and sleep on floor, on four occasions I had reported him to our families.

"Recently, he came home with a lady who stole my pants and brassier, I discovered after she had left.

"I told my husband to retrieve my underwears from his lover, he later came home with one of my bra and pant but those were not the underwears that were missing," she said.

Mother of four boys also said that her husband was always threatening her life.

"My husband is threatening to kill me, my hair dresser informed me that anytime I finished making my hair that my husband always come begging her to give him my hair.

"And he always tell me that if I leave him that he will kill me and run away," she said.

Ayomide said that she was the one responsible for feeding the family, paying the house rent and the children’s school fees.

She pleaded with the court to dissolve the union, saying she feared she may contract sexually transmitted diseases (STD) from her husband due to his unfaithfulness.

However, Kayode, 47, a cleric, in his response, denied all the allegations. He said that he paid his bills.

"I pay my bills, I usually give her N500 per day, but she also assists me as any good wife will do." 

Kayode said that he had returned the underwears his lover took away from their house.

He also denied that he never approached his wife's hairdresser for her hair.

The respondent ``begged’’ the court to help him ``beg’’ his wife not to leave him. ``I still love her.’’

Per Second News