Ibadan – A Mapo Customary Court in Ibadan on
Thursday dissolved an 18 year-old marriage
between one Grace Adekunle and Pastor Adeyemi
Adekunle over abandonment, irresponsibility and
impregnating church members.
Chief Ademola Odunade, President of the court
held that the dissolution became necessary
because there was no more love between the
two.
In his judgement, he said “In the interest of
peaceful coexistence, the union between Grace
and Adeyemi has ceased to be
“Custody of the first four children produced by the
union is granted to Adeyemi while Grace is
allowed to take the last because of his age.
“The respondent shall pay a monthly allowance of
N5,000, in addition to being responsible for his
education and other welfareâ€.
In her petition, the claimant, a school teacher had
informed the court that her husband, a pastor,
abandoned her and fornicated with his female
church followers.
“Firstly, Adeyemi has shown no form of
responsibility on any of the five children and me
since he became a pastor a number of years ago.
“Adeyemi neither makes provision for their feeding
nor sends them to school.
“One message Adeyemi has repeatedly passed to
me is that I shouldn’t expect him to send the
children to school because he is a poor man of
God.
“He also said that I saw him as a pastor before I
wilfully married him.
“As a result, none of our children whose ages
range between 8 and 16 is currently in school.
“I have spent all I have on the children with little
or no success so far.
“Worst still, Adeyemi has been sleeping with the
female worshippers in his church and has even
impregnated two of them,†she said.
The respondent was however absent in court
when he was called to respond to the allegations.
The court’s bailiff informed the arbitrators that he
had served several hearing notices on the
respondent without any response.
source:
www.vanguardngr.com/2019/01/court-dissolves-pastors-18-years-marriage-for-impregnating-2-church-members/