19/06/2026
After the Dยฃ of the late founder and Chief Executive Officer of First Foundation Hospital, Dr Tosin Ajayi on 26th of April ,2020.
Legal battle started over who is the legal wife to the Doctor and how they will inherit his properties
The Doctor seperated from his first legal wife many years ago but did not Divorce her properly in court before moving on to marry another woman
Under the law, the legal wife is the one that will come forward as executor for the properties with another family member (maybe with the children if they are adult already or family members if the children are still small)
Na so case start ooo on who is the legal wife.
First wife came back to take her position and the second wife say lai lai, over my Dยฃ body, you left him years ago and showed face when you hear say e don kpai....
Dem drag the matter go court since 2021.
Finally, case don end and judgement delivered by Justice Oluwayoyin Odusanya,
The court rejected the argument that the first wife prolonged separation from Doctor Ajayi amounted to a termination of their marriage.
According to the judge, separation, regardless of how long it lasts, does not automatically dissolve a legally valid marriage under the Act.
In addition, Justice Odusanya held that the alleged customary marriage to the second woman would still have been invalid because evidence before the court showed that Mrs Ajayi was legally married to her former husband, Mr. Davies, at the time the second woman claimed to have married Dr. Ajayi.
Consequently, the court dismissed her claim to spousal status and affirmed Mrs. Ajayi as the only legally recognised spouse of the deceased.
The court also upheld Mrs. Ajayiโs entitlement to one third of Dr. Ajayiโs personal estate and ruled that she is the only spouse entitled to apply for letters of administration over the estate.
As it is,
The legal wife will get one third of Dr Ajayi property and the children from Mrs Ajayi and other children the man had outside his legal marriage will share properties left, cos the man did not write A WILL
When i tell women to avoid any man married under the ACT wey never divorce properly, e go be like Atanda dey joke
If he does not divorce his legal wife under the Act.
If you like born one dozen of pikin, you are a baby mama or side chick under the law
If the man is married traditionally to another woman and you come as second wife come go do marriage for registry.
That your marriage is null and avoid cos he is actively marriage traditionally and any other marriage without ending the first one is void.
Statutory marriage is about one man and one woman only.
He must divorce the first wife property under their tradition before getting married to you at the registry
When the man kpai, the court will explain to you better ๐คฃ than Atanda
Ignorance of the law is no excuse
