Wife Seeks Divorce as Pastor Marries Woman Evangelist

A pastor’s wife, Mrs Kafayat Moses has sought for dissolution of her 15-year-old marriage, alleging that her husband, Moses Odeyemi has abandoned her.

Mrs Moses told the Customary Court in Ibadan today that her pastor husband abandoned her when she married a woman evangelist, and denied her of her right as a wife.

She said: “Things were going on smoothly between us until 2014 when Moses suddenly came to introduce to me a woman evangelist whom he said was a perfect spiritual worker with him. “Exactly two months after her arrival in our home, our good relationship started collapsing.

“I discovered that Moses started leaving home every five A.M and doesn’t return until around 11 P.M. everyday in the company of that woman. “Hunger and suffering affected the children and I.

“Whenever I put calls through to him that there was nothing for us to eat, Moses took offence and when he returns home, he subjects the children and I to battery, complaining that we were disturbing him.

“He had earlier asked me to stop the only business that was bringing me money to learn working as a midwife and I obeyed him. “Ever since I learnt midwifery, there have been nothing because no customer came.

“Moses has quietly married the woman evangelist somewhere, thereby, exposing the four children and I to trauma, hunger, emotional and psychological difficulties.”

In his response, Moses who was silent on the allegation of abandoning his wife, agreed to divorce Kafayat but asked the court to grant him custody of the four children.

He said: “My lord, Kafayat is a devil in human skin as she has been working for the downfall of my church. “Ever since I got married to her, she has been tearing all members of my church apart as well as my relatives.

“Kafayat doesn’t want my parents and relatives to come close to me as she keeps nagging.”

The President of the court, Mr Ademola Odunade, asked Kafayat to produce the four children in court and adjourned the case to May 2, for judgment.