Something that looks like an extractions from movie script played itself this yesterday morning between an ex commissioner and her husband who told the court that his wife returned home one night without her underwear on.

It was a drama of sorts at the High Court 9 sitting in Benin, Edo State capital yesterday as Mr. David Erhabor, the husband of a former Commissioner for Women Affairs, during the administration of former Governor Lucky Igbinedion, revealed that she once demanded for N1 million before she could return back to her matrimonial home.

Erhahor also told the court that his wife, Florence Igbinigie-Erhabor, who was married to him for the past 15 years, once returned home without a pant on her and she wore it before she left home that day.

Testifying in a divorce suit instituted by the wife against him in suit no HAB/16D/2O11 presided over Justice Anthony Erhabor, the respondent, (David Erhabor) told the court he never envisaged a broken home in his life.

Narrating his ordeal, he said trouble started after his wife was appointed commissioner and in the process suddenly resorted to keeping late nights.

According to him, he said that in one occasion, the wife abandoned her matrimonial home, leaving behind the two children and absconded for three days only to be caught in an extra marital affair with a man in a vehicle where they were romancing and kissing each other, adding that the estranged lover boy tear gassed him for intrusion.

“There was a day she came back home drunk and without a pant on her. She was in the habit of keeping late night out.” Erhabor disclosed.

The man further stated that it took the intervention of a former Managing Director of Delta State Oil Producing Community Development Commission (DESOPADEC), Wellington Okrika, to resolve some of their numerous crises.

On whether he would want the marriage to be dissolved as contained in the prayers of the petitioner and the issue of the custody of the children, he asked the court to grant that the children can stay with whoever they choose, particularly when they are on holidays.

On her part, the petitioner, Mrs. Igbinigie-Erhabor, amongst others in her prayers is asking the court to grant her divorce on the grounds of threat to her life, violent assault and infidelity on the part of her husband.

Besides, the former commissioner, who separated from her husband since 2009 due to irreconcilable marital differences, is also demanding that her husband pays her N150,000 as monthly upkeep for each for the two children and that the court should compel him to pay the school fees of their children.

The defendant is a former Senior Special Adviser to former Governor Oserhiemen Osunbor.

In a cross examination by counsel to the respondent, Akakhomen Austine, the petitioner said despite the embarrassment the rampant violent attacks caused her while serving as commissioner, the estranged husband had also at a time squeezed the children inside a vehicle and threatened to set them ablaze.

She said that it took the prompt action of members of both families to broker peace, pointing out that ever since then, she has been the one taking care of the children’s school fees and that they are presently living with her in her family house where she relocated to when she suspected the husband was after her life.

The petitioner stated that some suspected robbers had invaded her private residence on two occasions and therefore accused the husband of having extra-marital affair with house maids.

Justice Erhabor adjourned the case till August 4 for further hearing