commissioner in Edo State, Florence Igbinigie-
Erhabor, on Wednesday, told a Benin High
Court, that his wife of 15 years once came
home without putting on pant.
He said, "There was a day she came back home
drunk and without a pant on her. She was in the
habit of keeping late nights."
David while testifying in a divorce suit, No
HAB/16D/2011, instituted by his wife, a former
Commissioner for Women Affairs, under Chief Lucky
Igbinedion, told the court he did not envisage a
broken home in his life.
The respondent said trouble started after his wife
was appointed commissioner, after which he said she
began keeping late nights.
David, an ex-Senior Adviser to former Governor
Oswerhiemen Osunbor, told the court that there was
a time the wife abandoned their two children,
absconded from home for three days, "only to be
caught red-handed inside a vehicle, romancing and
kissing a man who had earlier gassed him."
David recalled that it took the intervention of a
former chairman of Delta State Oil Producing
Community Development Commission, Chief
Wellington Okrika, to resolve some of their
matrimonial crises.
He also said his wife had once demanded N1m from
him before she could allow him to have sex with her,
adding that on another occasion, he ran from home
when he sensed that his wife was planning to send
hired assassins after him.
On the custody of their children, David said they
could always stay with whoever they chose when on
holidays.
Florence among other prayers is asking the court to
grant her divorce on the grounds of threat to life,
violent assault and infidelity on the part of her
husband.
The former commissioner, who has since 2009
separated from her husband, is demanding that she
should be paid N150, 000 as monthly upkeep for
each of their children. She also wants Erhabor to be
compelled to pay the children's school fees.
While being crossed-examined by David's lawyer, Mr.
Akakhomen Austine, Florence said her husband had
at a time squeezed the children inside a vehicle and
threatened to set them ablaze. She said it took the
intervention of members of both families to broker
peace.
The former commissioner said she had been solely
responsible for the children's upkeep, including
payment of their school fees over the past years.
She added that the children had been living in her
family house where she relocated to when she
suspected that her husband was after her life.
She also accused David of having extra-marital affair
with their housemaid.
Justice Anthony Erhabor adjourned the case till
August 4 for further hearing.
Via:Ascology News
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