“I still love my wife …” Emeka Ike Moves To Stop Divorce From Estranged Wife
Nollywood actor, Emeka Ike, has filed an application before a High Court restraining the lower court from hearing the divorce suit filed by his estranged wife, Emma.
According to Vanguard, the actor revealed this to a Lagos Island Customary Court yesterday through his lawyer, Abdul Labi-Lawal, at the hearing of the divorce case.
In 2015, his wife filed for divorce on the grounds of incessant battery, an allegation the actor denied. He begged the court not to dissolve their 16-year union, stating, “I still love my wife.”
The actor urged the High Court to declare that all the proceedings already conducted by the Customary Court in respect of his marriage be rendered null and void. He applied for a perpetual injunction restraining the Customary Court’s President, Awos Awosola, and any other person appointed in the capacity of entertaining and or continuing the proceedings in respect of the couple’s divorce suit, Vanguard reports.
Ike’s lawyer told the court that his client had filed a stay of proceedings before a High Court in Lagos. Marked FCMP/20054/16, the application, which had Emma and Awosola, as the first and second defendants, sought the High Court’s declaration that the Lagos Island Customary Court lacked requisite jurisdiction to entertain and determine the divorce suit. The application further noted that the marriage was conducted in Enugu State under the Igbo customs and traditions, according to Vanguard. He then told the court to stay proceedings on the suit pending the hearing and determination of the suit at the High Court.
Emma’s lawyer, Iheanyi Awa, opposed the application, urging the court to discontinue the stay of application and deliver judgment.
He stated, “It is an attempt to arrest the judgment of the court, I am aware that the respondent wants to arrest the judgment which is to be delivered today. The stay of proceedings has been decided for a long time and court has ruled that it has jurisdiction to entertain the matter. It is a ploy to frustrate my client, they just want to delay the judgment till another day. The court should give its judgment and if they are not satisfied, they can appeal.”
Vanguard reports that the case was adjourned for an indefinite period.
If he still loves his wife as he claims, then he should use ADR not fighting in courts with different applications and counter applications
Hmmmmmmmm
Go man…..Go Emeka……..Make it happen!!!
He loves his wife and yet batters her? So much for love.
Most Naija men doesn’t even know the meaning of love.
You don’t know what you have until you lose it… Emeka, let her be!
mtcheeew
It’s not by force. If the woman has moved on nko? You still love her but she is done with you so let her be. If situations were turned around and it was the woman playing all sorts of tricks to stay married, we would say she is desperate and a loser.
Dude move on boko.
Leave her alone, too late to love