Court finally dissolves OAP's marriage
Toke had on March 9, 2016, asked the court to dissolve the marriage on the grounds that the husband committed adultery.
The three-year-old marriage between a popular radio presenter, Toke Makinwa and her estranged husband, Maje Ayida has hit the rocks.
An
Igbosere High Court in Lagos on Thursday dissolved the union, citing
husband’s adulterous lifestyle, according to the News Agency of Nigeria
(NAN).
Makinwa, is the co-host of the ‘Morning Drive’ on Rhythm 93.7FM, a blogger and an author.
She had on March 9, 2016, asked the court to dissolve the marriage on the grounds that the husband committed adultery.
Justice Morenike Obadina, while delivering judgment held that Ayida filed an answer to the petition but did not give oral evidence in support of it.
She said the position of the law was settled as pleadings did not amount to evidence.
“Pleadings on which no evidence was led are deemed abandoned. Therefore, Ayida’s evidence is deemed abandoned.
“The effect being that the petitioner’s evidence is unchallenged and uncontroverted,’’ she ruled.
The
judge said the issue of cruelty which the petitioner (Makinwa) relied
on was established because of the “mental and emotional stress” she was
subjected to by her husband.
He said Makinwa had
sufficiently proven that the husband committed adultery and continued to
flaunt his adulterous relationships even to her face.
“I hold that the marriage has broken down on grounds of intolerable behaviour.
“I
hereby pronounce a `Decree Nisi’ dissolving the marriage between
Makinwa and Ayida which was administered at the Federal Marriage
Registry, Ikoyi, Lagos, on Jan. 15, 2014.
“The
order Nisi shall become absolute three months from today unless within
that period sufficient cause is shown why it should not be made
absolute,” Obadina said.
Makinwa had told the court that her husband committed adultery with his mistress, Anita Solomon, adding that the relationship produced a child.
She
said since their marriage was contracted, the husband had “behaved in a
way she could not reasonably be expected to continue to bear”.
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