Ayeverhuvwu Oduvesiri Vivi Ibru-stankov V. Aleksandar Stankov (2016)

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IGNATIUS IGWE AGUBE, J.C.A.(Delivering the Leading Judgment)

By a Notice of Petition and Petition For Decree of Dissolution of Marriage dated and filed on the 29th day of March, 2011 at the Owerri Division of the High Court Justice, Imo State and addressed to Mrs. Ayeverhuvwu Oduvesiri Vivi Ibru-Stankov of 2/4 Mosley Road, Block BPH-7 Ikoyi Lagos, Aleksandar Stankov of the same address (the Petitioner) sought for the dissolution of the marriage between the Petitioner and the Respondent (Ayeverhuvwu Oduvesiri Vivi Ibru-Stankov) for that the ground upon which the Court would be asked to find that the marriage had broken irretrievably is:

?(a) That since the marriage, the Respondent has behaved in such a way that the Petitioner cannot reasonably be expected to live with her.?

The Petition gave the history of the marriage and the surname of the Respondent before the marriage as Ibru and that the couple were married at Our Saviour?s Church, Lagos, on the 8th July, 2006 and further that whereas, the Petitioner was born in Serbia on the 3rd of October, 1974; the Respondent was born in London, United Kingdom on the

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12th of September, 1974.

On the grounds for dissolution of the marriage as advanced by the Petitioner, he stated at page 4 of the Records as follows:

?The Respondent is always cold and moody each time she sees the Petitioner and when the Petitioner attempts to relate to her, she charges aggressively on the Petitioner.

?c. The Respondent is very secretive and does not want the Petitioner to know about her dealings in and outside their matrimonial home. For instance, sometime in September/October 2009 during her family business-Oceanic Bank Probe by Central Bank of Nigeria, the Petitioner was shocked over huge sum of money found in the Respondents Bank Account. The Petitioner was shocked to the marrows when he discovered that the Respondent had such huge sums and properties without his (Petitioner?s) knowledge.

?d. The Respondent has currently instigated her maiden family (Ibru) to unnecessarily interfere in the running of the Petitioner?s family to the chagrin of the Petitioner.

?c. The Respondent being in property development management is always busy with her business living the care of their three

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children in the hands of the Petitioner?s mother.

?F. The Respondent is always raising her voice on the Petitioner?s mother.