“My wife must return my late mother’s gold necklace before she can divorce me,’’ Ojikutu told the court on Wednesday.
He said this while responding to a divorce suit filed by his wife, Olaide.
The 28-year-old petitioner, who had approached the court to terminate her five-year-old marriage due to her husband’s infidelity.
Ojikutu said his mother gave him and his siblings a gold necklace each to give to their wives when they marry with a condition that the wife must stay with them for life.
“When my mother was about to die, she called me and my three brothers, gave us a gold necklace each, telling us to give it to our wives that will be with us for better (and) for worse, till death do us apart.
“She told us the value of each gold– mine was 21 carats valued at N125,000 as of 1995 when she died.
“She promised not to forgive anyone who violated her order,’’ he said.
The respondent said that he had kept the gold for about 20 years before his wife came to borrow it in 2014 and refused to give him back.
“My wife borrowed my gold necklace but has not returned it; now that she wants to divorce me, she must return the gold necklace, it is not negotiable,” Ojikutu said.
He claimed that his wife must have sold the jewellery as she used to sell his clothes.
Ojikutu urged the court to grant his wife’s wish for dissolution of the marriage, saying he too was no longer in love and only wanted the return of his gold necklace.
“’I collected the gold from my husband when I wanted to go for an event but I can’t just remember where I kept it,’’ Olaide, a clothes trader, told the court.
But Olaide, a mother of two who admitted that she collected the necklace, accused her husband of infidelity.
“My husband is having an affair; I once stumbled on some pictures on his Whatsapp messages where he and his lover were sending their naked pictures to each other,” she said.
“My husband does not care for me or the children; even during festive periods, he never buys the children clothes or shoes.”
She said that as a result of her husband’s negligence, her mother had to take care of the children.
She added that she left her matrimonial home on February 7, 2015 after her husband changed the key of the house and locked her out.
She begged the court to terminate the five-year-old marriage, saying that she was no longer in love.
The president of the court, Mr. Adegboyega Omilola, said Olaide had to produce the gold necklace before judgement would be passed in the case.
“Since the respondent insisted on collecting back his gold necklace, the judgment will not be read just for peace to reign until the gold necklace is produced,” he said. Click to signup for FREE news updates, latest information and hottest gists everyday
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