A 52year-old wife and trader, Mrs Kudirat Ajayi confessed to a customary court in Igando that she had sex with her brother-in-law because she thought he was her husband.
Kudirat’s husband accused his wife of infidelity and prayed to the court to dissolve her 35 year-old marriage with his wife.
According to NANS reports, Mrs Kudirat Ajayi explained to the court thus ”I was in bed in the night when my husband’s younger brother came to the house my husband rented for me.
“I thought it was my husband who normally come to the house at that particular time between 9 p.m. and 10 p.m. to play and sleep with me.
“It was after he finished making love to me that I realised that he was not my husband.
“When I queried him, he claimed that my husband had traveled that was why he came to have sex with me.
“I reported the case to my brother’s wife, who advised me not to tell my brother so that peace can reign in the family.”
Kudirat said that her husband treats the children of the other wives better than hers.
The mother of four denied being fetish as claimed by husband.
Kudirat prayed the court not to grant her husband’s wish for the dissolution of their marriage that she still love him.
Ajayi, the husband said that his wife was wayward and adulterous that her man friend was claiming paternity of one of their children and demanded for dissolution of the 35 year-old marriage.
“When I married her, I rented an apartment for her because I have other wives and I don’t want them to live together.
“I started hearing from people in the area that my wife was having affair with a man, initially I ignored it until her lover came claiming ownership of one of my children.
“The man eventually came to the house but I refused to open the door for him.
“When I questioned my wife, she confessed that the man slept with her but it did not result in pregnancy.”
The 71-year-old businessman said that his wife was fetish.
“I once caught her burying something in my compound, I accosted her and tried to remove what she buried there but I could not.
“I went out before I returned, she had cemented the place.”
He begged the court to end the marriage that he was no longer interested that the love he once had for her husband had faded.
The president of the court, Mr Adeniyi Koledoye, urged the two parties to maintain peace and adjourned the case until August 22 for judgment.