By Sunmola Olowookere
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A High Court sitting in Akure, has dissolved a 5-year-old marriage between one Ilesanmi Ogunyemi,  and his wife, Tolulope Ogunyemi, over allegations of infidelity.

The plaintiff,  Ilesanmi Ogunyemi, who described vividly how he caught his wife in a compromising situation with another man, had insisted before the court that he no longer wants anything to do with her.

Ogunyemi, had filed a petition before the court seeking for dissolution of the marriage between him and the respondent on grounds of adultery, child neglect and desertion.

The Hope Metro gathered that the couple got married in Ijero Local Government Registry, Ekiti state, in 2013 and had an issue from the marriage.

Ilesanmi, who could not hide his feelings, claimed  that  his estranged wife had been exhibiting traits of adultery which made him to be suspecting her.

” My lord, I got my evidence one day when she claimed to be going to a party and dropped her four-month-old baby.

” I sent a private spy who trailed her to a hotel where she went with a man.

“When she came back from her outing, I seized her phone and saw implicating messages on it.

Ogunyemi said since then, his wife had left her matrimonial home and did not come back.

Though the respondent did not come to court all through the hearing, her counsel urged the court to grant the prayers of the petitioner as the marriage had broken down irretrievably.

Tolulope, through her counsel, urged the court to grant the custody of the only child of the marriage to the mother.

The presiding judge, Justice O.A Adegoroye, while delivering his judgement on the petition, observed that the respondent did not bother to attend any of the hearings in the case.

He noted that the plaintiff, Ilesanmi,  brought overwhelming evidence to show why he could not live with the respondent again and to back up his petition for the dissolution of the marriage.

The judge held that from the facts before the court, the marriage had broken down irretrievably

The court, therefore, dissolved the marriage and ordered  the petitioner to pay N5,000 stipend to the respondent, for the upkeep of the only child, of the union, whose custody was granted to the mother.