Housewife faints in Sharia Court as Judge refuses to dissolve marriage

There was mild drama in an Upper Sharia Court sitting in Bauchi when a housewife, Aishatu Adamu Suleiman fainted as her hope of getting a divorce from her husband, Umar Audu Mai’auduga evaporated.

The Court  refused to dissolve the six -year marriage between the two.

Delivering his verdict, the presiding judge, Malam Bello Mohammed Sambo refused to grant Aishatu’s request to based on principles of Sharia law Where the couple’s representatives were asked to try and settle out of court.

He explained that the court in the previous sitting had asked the guardians of the two parties to go and discuss and come up with a resolution on whether the marriage should be terminated or not in line with islamic principles of amicable reconciliation between two fighting parties especially couples.

Aishatu Adamu Sulaiman had sought for the dissolution of the marriage with her husband, Umar Audu Mai Auduga over alleged physical and psychological humiliation just as she said she no longer had any feelings for him.

The judge therefore directed the wife to go back to her matrimonial home and make peace with her husband.

In his reaction to the outcome, Counsel to the plaintiff, Barrister’s Nasiru Balan Malam said they will appeal the verdict.

 He said the husband often instructs her children to abuse her among other offences and expressed dissatisfaction on the judgement vowing to appeal against it in a higher Sharia court.

In his own reaction, the lawyer to the husband, Zakariya Aliyu Libata praised the judgement opining that his client would triumph everywhere should the plaintiff appealed against the ruling.

He said that so far Mai Auduga had won the case in three Shariah courts in the state claiming that the two love each other alleging that it was the mother of the wife that instigates her daughter to seek divorce because the husband refuses to allow her to control the house.