
Bernard Towoju, a Pentecostal pastor has urged an Igando Customary Court, Lagos, to dissolve his marriage to his wife, Abosede, for allegedly using her privates to invoke curses on him Towoju, 53, said in his divorce petition on Monday that “I cannot continue to make love with a woman who always goes naked and swears for me with her private part”.
The petitioner accused his wife of threatening his life, adding that his wife always hit him with dangerous weapons whenever they quarreled.“I had to run away from the house.
He begged the court to dissolve the marriage that the love he once had for her had faded.
The respondent, Abosede, a fashion designer, accused her husband of calling her a witch.“He said everywhere he went for solution to his problems, they always tell him that I am behind his predicament.
“My hands are clean; I know nothing about his woes, the 46-year-old woman added.The mother of four urged the court not to grant her husband’s request for the dissolution of the marriage, saying “I still love him”.
In his judgment, the court President, Mr Akin Akinniyi, said the petitioner was adamant despite all mediation from the court and family.“Since the petitioner insisted“The court pronounced the marriage between Pastor Bernard Towoju and Mrs Abosede Towoju dissolved since the man was no longer interested in the marriage.
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