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Extra-marital affairs rock 31-yr-old marriage
A trader, Mrs Funmilayo Okeeyi, has explained to an Igando Customary Court in Lagos, why she followed her husband’s brother to a hotel, which is now threatening her 31-year-old marriage to Mr. Kolawole Okeeyi.
Funmilayo claimed her husband’s family beat her comatose when she was pregnant with her fifth baby. According to her, “my husband caught his brother and I in a hotel, but we are not dating. His brother just followed me to book a room when I went for a burial in Oyo State.”
Accusing her husband’s family of battery, she said: “When I was pregnant with our fifth baby, my husband’s family stormed our house and accused me of having extra-marital affairs; they beat me to coma. In fact, I did not know how I got to the hospital.”
Pleading with the court not to grant her husband’s request, insisting that she was still in love with him, Funmilayo said the love text messages from their pastor her husband found on her phone were forged.
Vanguard, October 21
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