Popular actor Emeka Ike’s wife Emma has dragged him to the Lagos Island Customary Court seeking for a divorce of their 12-year-old marriage which has produced 4 children. Abdulhakeem Labi-Lawal who represented Emeka said the actor couldn’t make the court because “he is ill but I will try my best possible he comes on the next adjourned date. We indulge the court to give us 6 months from this day to see if there is possibility of settlement between the couple. In a related development, Mrs Emma Ike said 6 months will be too long as Emeka had 2 years to reconcile with her but he didn’t. According to her,
“The last time I wanted to speak with our children, it was my mother-in-law who picked the call and she asked if I had read Exodus 21, which says that if I go, I should’t return.”
Shortly after the court rose, Emma Ike opened up and spoke at length to The Nation about the crisis.
In her words, “Over two years since I left the house, he never taught of reconciliation. He had every opportunity to ask me to return but he didn’t. So why now? He took our last two children from me when I was going for my mother’s burial in February. He promised to bring them to me immediately I returned from my mother’s burial but he didn’t. Even when he didn’t allow me access to see our children, I spoke with them on several occasions but now, he doesn’t allow me anymore. My children are now against me. If I was still with him, I may not survive. I was 19-year old when I met him and he was the one who deflowered me. I see no reason I shouldn’t be treated with utmost respect. Due to physical torture, my health has been affected. There was even a time I thought I had Bosom cancer because I felt a lump on one part of my Bosom .”
She further said:
”I almost went mad when my first son told me on phone that if I truly loved them, I wouldn’t have abandoned them. Even my seven-year-old son whose day wouldn’t be complete without seeing me said he doesn’t love me. I love my children. I miss my children. I never abandoned them. I am in pain. They don’t have any other mother. I really need my children. I am a good woman; I endured so many things as his wife.”
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