Court dissolves marriage as wife changes children's names to lover's

A customary court in Akure, Ondo state, has ended the 23-year union of Prophet Obayan and Prophetess Chibuzor Obayan, the couple's four children's father and mother, respectively.

The children's names had been altered by the estranged wife Chibuzor to that of her new lover, a former churchgoer of the husband.

Prophet Obayan, the founder of the Divine Prophetic Solutions Prayers Ministry, which has offices in Ladipo, Lagos and off Arowojobe Street, had taken his estranged wife to court in Akure to protest the "snatching of his four children by a member of his church" and to research the children's paternity.

Obayan had filed for divorce from his wife on the grounds that she had given their children her lover's last name and that their 23-year marriage should be dissolved.

The petitioner identified himself as a Yoruba guy in court. He charged his Ibo wife from Abia State with disobedience, misinterpretation, falsehoods, manipulation, abuse, hatred, and fury.

Obayan asked the judge to give him custody of his four children, whose mother had given them the surname Obi.

The respondent and five other witnesses testified for the defence throughout the hearing while the petitioner presented three witnesses, including himself.

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