Sa’adatu Ayuba, a housewife, has asked a Dei-Dei Grade I Area Court to end her 27-year marriage to Jalija due to what she claims is impotence.

In 1997, the petitioner married Jalija in line with Islamic law, and the couple had five children, who are now ages 25, 22, 14, 9, and 7.

“I have been married since I was sixteen years old, and I have never dated anyone else before,” the woman declared.

“He got a girlfriend outside of our marriage, which is why I have been having misunderstandings with him since two years ago. In the interest of justice, I want a divorce because he hasn’t been acting like a man, and I’m tired of the circumstance and his attitude,” she uttered.

Jalija replied that the petitioner’s claim that he had no girlfriend was untrue.

He said, “I got married in her village, so I married another woman, and I’m doing great as a man. She has one child for me.”

He continued by saying that, in his portrayal of a true man, he had been acting out his spouse’s part.

Nonetheless, the petitioner disputed her husband’s assertion, claiming that the subject of the claim was actually his girlfriend.

She claimed to have been unaware that her husband had wed the woman.

Malam Saminu Suleiman, the judge, gave the couple a week to resolve their differences amicably before postponing the case until January 17, 2024, so that she could provide input.