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.
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.
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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