A woman has cried out before a court while urging it to dissolve her marriage because her husband cannot impregnate her.
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A 53-year-old woman, Christy Adejo has dragged her husband to an FCT High Court on Friday begging for the dissolution of their seven-year-old marriage due to husband’s inability to impregnate her.
Adejo made the request during her testimony in her petition against her husband, Emmanuel Oluseye.
The petitioner told the court that she was almost 46-years-old when she got married to the respondent and that she made it clear to him then that her objective was to have children.
The wife accused her husband of failure to perform his conjugal rights, alleging that they sometimes made love only four times in a year.
“He has had four children from two previous marriages, but I wanted a child of my own and he promised to support me.
“I was still menstruating when we got married, but sometimes he chooses not to sleep with me when I am ovulating.
“He travels a lot and always gives the excuse of pressure of work.
“He claimed that he doesn’t know when I ovulate, yet I lived in the same room with him in the few years of our marriage.
“How do I begin to tell the court that sometimes we make love only four times in a year,” she said.
Adejo testified that she was desirous of having her own child and decided to go for assisted conception in a hospital which her husband was familiar with.
“Yet, he still did not give me the desired support,” she said.
According to her, the respondent claimed the cost for assisted conception was too high and the possibility of its success was narrow.
The wife told the court that she never saw the result of her husband’s sperm count test which made her to seek for divorce.
”I moved out of his home in 2015, by then I was over 50 years and I was not getting the support I needed, I wasn’t getting younger and my chances of conceiving was getting thinner."