Housewife wants 14-year loveless marriage dissolved

Zulai Umar, a housewife, approached an Upper Area Court, Gwagwalada Federal Capital Territory, seeking the dissolution of her 14-year marriage to her husband, Umar Abubakar, for lack of love and interest.

Umar told the court that she married Abubakar 14 years ago and they have been living together in Giri Gauta, Gwagwalada, in the FCT.

The mother of five, said that sometime in 2015, she noticed that her husband had started taking alcohol.

“I had a talk with him to stop drinking, but to no avail. On June 20, 2022, when I delivered my last child, he got drunk on the naming ceremony day and created a scene in the presence of all his in-laws and relatives,” she said.

She said that after the incident, she left her husband’s house for her parents for 10 months with her children.

According to her, “During that period, my husband never visited to check on the well-being of my children.”
Umar prayed to the court to dissolve the marriage on the grounds of lack of love and interest.
Abubakar did not respond well to the allegations from the wife because he was under the influence of alcohol.

The Judge, Malam Abdullahi Abdulkarim, cautioned the defendant who was talking carelessly in the court.

Abdulkarim adjourned the matter until June 23 to give the defendant room to reply because he was drunk.