‘I Lied That Our Fourth Child Is Not His, Please Help Me Beg My Husband’

An Ikole Customary Court in Ekiti State has granted the
request of an out-of-court settlement by a couple over the
husband’s allegation of adultery against his wife.
The judge, Mrs Yemisi Ojo, held that “the court is not
opposed to amicable settlement of dispute out of court, in
as much as the defendant did not write the letter of
restitution under duress.’’
Ojo, therefore, struck out the case and appealed to the
couple to forget the past and live harmoniously again.
The wife, Olayemi Jemibola, asked the court to help save
her 25-year-old marriage by appealling to her husband,
Isaac, to forgive her for engaging in extramarital affair.
Fifty-seven-year-old Isaac, on January 21, urged the court
to dissolve his marriage to his 48-year-old wife, Olayemi,
over alleged extramarital affair.
Olayemi, a mother of five, told the court on Febuary 11 that
her husband was not the biological father of her fourth
child.
She confessed she was involved in an extramarital affair
with her former boss which resulted in the pregnancy of
her fourth child.
She said that her desire to make heaven prompted her to
make the confession.
The court then adjourned the case for possible
reconciliation.
At the resumed hearing, the court clerk informed the court
that the woman wrote a letter dated March 25 to the court.
In the letter, the woman declared that the child in question
was actually her husband’s son and expressed regrets for
her action.
She further stated in the letter that the court should assist
in appealing to her husband to forgive her for the sake of
the children.
The petitioner, in his response, told the court that
consequent upon the order of the court for possible
settlement, family members intervened and the matter was
resolved.