A divorcee, Hajara Usman, on Monday sued her ex husband before an Area Court in Karu, Abuja for blocking her from re-marrying.
Usman, who resides in Asokoro, Abuja told the court that she got married to one Adamu Abdullahi in 2011 but they got divorced through Islamic way in 2016.
That during the cause of the marriage Abdullahi tortured her at the slightest provocation.
“My parents actually forced me to marry him. I have never loved him and when I got into the marriage, I discovered that Abdullahi was ill-tempered.
“He beats me up often at the slightest provocation and his parents and mine had warned him on numerous occasions to stop the act but he never listened’’.
Usman claimed that Abdullahi divorced her in November 2016, compelling her to leave his house immediately after pronouncing `divorce’ three times in line with Islamic injunction.
“I have long observed my compulsory Idah (waiting) period but my ex-husband has refused to allow me to marry other suitors coming for me.’’
She told the court that having finished observing the waiting period, two men had at different times indicated interest to marry her.
Usman said that the moment her former husband got wind of her wedding plans and the ceremony that followed, he came to the venue and disrupted the occasion.
“ In April this year, the man who approached me to marry me came to perform the wedding rites, my ex-husband sent a group of boys to disrupt the ceremony.
“ On another occasion, when he heard I was about to re-marry, he way-laid me and beat me up so much that I had to plead with him.
“On the day he beat me, he said he was beating me so that no man would desire me since I decided to move on and re-marry almost immediately.”
She pleaded with the court to compel her former husband to explain why he would not want her to re-marry because his actions had discouraged her suitors.
Usman also pleaded with the court to divorce her and Abdullahi formally and legally, saying that she no longer had interest in Abdullahi.
“ I want the court to issue us a divorce certificate and restrain him from coming close to me,’’ Usman pleaded.
Reacting to the statement of his former wife, Abdullahi, who also resides in Asokoro, said that it was true that they were no longer married.
He said that his grouse was that his former wife came to the court to tell lies against him.
“ Since I divorced her, according to the tenets of our religion, I had nothing to do with her.
“I have avoided her and her family because the marriage was arranged between our parents and we were never meant for each other,’’ he said.
The estranged couple has no child from the marriage according to the Nigerian Pilot.
The Judge, Mr Abdullahi Baba, adjourned the case until Nov. 1 for the plaintiff to come to court with at least two persons, who witnessed the disruption of her marriage rites.
Baba said that a divorce certificate would be issued to the parties at the completion of the case since there was no more love between them and they had also been living apart.
He, however, urged the parties to maintain peace since they lived in the same neighbourhood.
CULLED FROM: NIGERIA PILOT
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