Like a scene from a Nollywood home video, a 57 year-old man simply
identified as Valentine, abandoned his bride to be at the registry and
took to his heels during a marriage registration ceremony over the
weekend at the Oredo Local Government Council marriage registry in
Benin, Edo state.
It was gathered that the embattled groom
allegedly abandoned the marriage formalities when he sighted his wife of
17 years who stormed the venue to disrupt the marriage.
Sources
close to the family of Mr. Valentine disclosed to journalists in Benin
that the runaway groom had in the past approached marriage registry in
several courts in a different locations in Delta state where he was said
to secretly contracted another marriage.
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He was said to have
perfected plans to formalise his relationship secretly with his latest
lover when on the said day, he invited few of his trusted friends to
witness the occasion.
Information about the arrangement of the new
marriage was said to have leaked to his first wife who had four
children for him, and she subsequently mobilised other women who stormed
the venue to disrupt the administration of marital vow.
The
embattled wife was said to have narrated to the bewildered crowd that
her husband abandoned his responsibilities to the family since he got
involved with his new spouse, adding that, several attempts to save the
marriage did not yield the desire results.
“I had to do this because I’m convinced my husband must have been bewitched by the lady because since the rumour began making rounds he has stopped taking care of his four children. Each time he is confronted to provide money for our upkeep he often complained of not having money,” she allegedly narrated.
“I had to do this because I’m convinced my husband must have been bewitched by the lady because since the rumour began making rounds he has stopped taking care of his four children. Each time he is confronted to provide money for our upkeep he often complained of not having money,” she allegedly narrated.
It was gathered that she threatened to take legal action
against the council should they go ahead on a later date to wed them
insisting that she remains his legal wife.
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