Religious Differnce Comes In Between Their Marraige

Akanni has asked the court to dissolve their marriage and award custody of the last two children to his wife, Florence, 61.
A 62-year-old man, Adesanya Akanni has accused his wife of changing the names of his children from Muslim to Christian without his knowledge.
Akanni who is seeking the dissolution of his 32-year-old marriage to Florence Akani over religious differences told the court that their five children were given Muslim names at birth, but that their mother has now changed their names to Christians names.
“Our five children were given Muslim names at birth: Kaosara, 32, Kudirat, 25, Mubarak, 22, Azeez, 19 and Musa, 17.
“Their mother and the Church she attends have now changed their names to Oluwatomi, Victoria, Oluwasegun, Oluwarotimi and Peter respectively.
“I did not know until I went to the school of my last two boys to ask for Azeez and Musa but officials of the school claimed they did not have students bearing those names. “It was when I mentioned their surname that I was told that they now bear Oluwarotimi and Peter,’’ Akanni told a Lagos Island Customary Court in Lagos on Thursday, November 10.
Adesanya Akanni complained that his wife’s continued practice of her Christian faith was adversely affecting the family.
According to him, his marital problems started about 26-years ago, when his wife, Florence resumed the practice of her Christian faith.
He complained that he was not informed when his first daughter got married and gave birth to her first and second children.
“The Church and my wife gave out my daughter, without informing me; she gave birth to her two children. My wife and daughter did not tell me anything.
“We live under the same roof and over the past two years. My wife has stopped cooking my meals. She does not allow me to make love to her,’’ Akanni said.
Akanni, prayed the court to dissolve their marriage and award custody of the last two children to his wife, Florence, 61, who denied all the allegations.
On her part, Florence explained that Akanni did not insist that she should convert to Islam after their marriage, stressing that at the time of their marriage, “my husband was not a practising Muslim.
“I started attending Church when I had an 8-year delay after our first child; he used to accompany me to Church but later stopped and then prevailed on me to discontinue attending Church.
“This our fight over religion has been ongoing for years, but I have refused to stop going to church because God has been answering my prayers.
“After eight years of believing God for the fruit of the womb, God gave me, not just one but three other children. I have been taking them to Church ever since.
“When our first daughter wanted to get married, I informed my husband but he said our daughter should go and `meet her father in the church’.’’
He had vowed he would be part of the wedlock, unless our daughter re-converted to Islam’’.
Florence told the court that she still loved her husband but, “I cannot convert to Islam.’’ The president of the court, Mr Awos Awosola, adjourned the case to Nov. 30 to enable other members from both families to mediate on the matter.
Meanwhile, one of the most extraordinary octogenarians living anywhere in the world today is Alhaji Pa Bello Abubakar Masaba, the man with 97 wives and over 190 children.
In an interview with a foreign newspaper,
Masaba disclosed how he continues to write his name into the Guinness Book of Records, as Nigeria’s most prolific man, by marrying even more wives every time he sees a new ‘Miss Right’.
When asked how Masaba satisfies his women sexually, the octogenarian said his sexual power is from God. ”In his wisdom, God has given me the power and strength to give them the sexual portion they need. If I didn’t satisfy them, they would leave,” he said.