How My Husband Left Me Only One Month After Our Marriage - Abuja Based Woman, Halima Cries Out

“My Lord, we got married on the 16th of June, 2014 at AMAC marriage registry. We were given a marriage certificate that day. We moved in together as husband and wife after the marriage.

“On the 27th of July, 2014, he left the house at Kubwa without saying anything to me. I waited throughout that day. His line (telephone) was not going through.

“I later found out that some of his belongings were no longer in the house,” the petitioner told the court.
 
She informed that she contacted her husband’s family to tell them the issue on ground but the response they gave was unsatisfactory.
 
The petitioner added that it was then she contacted her uncle and told him what was happening.
 
“My uncle met with his family who told him that he had travelled out of the country and that he was no longer interested in the marriage. I still waited hoping that he would change his mind and come back.

“But up till now, he has not come back. That is why I brought the matter before my Lord,” the petitioner told the court.
 
She, therefore, pleaded with the court to dissolve the marriage.
 
Counsel for the husband, Abubakar Muhammed, told the court that he did not want to cross-examine the plaintiff.
 
He stated that based on the instruction of his client, all the wife said in her petition before the court was true.
 
According to the counsel, “based on the instruction of my client, the respondent confirmed that all she claimed in her petition is true and he has no objection to the petition.”