Serious Drama As Man Storms Wedding Ceremony, Insists Bride Is Already Married To Him [PHOTOS]

Serious drama erupted on Saturday when a man stormed a wedding ceremony with his family members in Lagos state.

The man named Iberemu Osadebe, had insisted that the bride was already married to him.

The incident occured at the Great Salvation Christian Centre, aka Father’s Church, on Ako Aro Road, in the Ifako-Ijaiye area of Lagos State.

Osadebe, including his family members had arrived the venue where they caused a scene.

Punch gathered that Osadebe and the bride Gloria have been together for 20 years. They had a son in 2011 and had a traditional wedding after their son was born.

However, Osadebe became sick for about five years, during which he sold most of his property to seek a cure.

The Imo State indigene, who was reportedly suffering paralysis, was said to have later travelled to his hometown in Isiala Mbano, to continue the treatment.

He was reportedly on his sick bed when he received information that Gloria, from Edo state, would be getting married to another man on Saturday, August 29, 2020.

The 43-year-old returned to Lagos on Friday, a day to the wedding, and reported his plan to disrupt the wedding at the Agbado Police Station.

On the wedding day, he arrived at the church at about 11am. Church leaders had received information that he was planning to disrupt the wedding, so when he arrived, they recognised him and appealed to him to let the matter go, but he refused.

Some members of the National Union of Road Transport Workers, who were said to be colleagues of the new groom, identified as Henry, were also invited to mediate.

The wedding went ahead despite the disruption but as the church’s pastor was about to join the new couple, Osadebe’s family members marched to the pulpit and revealed that the woman was already married and could not be joined in holy matrimony to another man.

Pandemonium broke out then and the church’s security guard bundled them out of the church.

Narrating his ordeal, Mr Osadebe said:

“I was in a relationship with my wife for 20 years; we had a child together in 2011. My mother objected to our union because she is not from my tribe, but I said I loved her.

“When my mother died and I wanted to travel for the burial, my wife said she would not follow us, because it is a taboo in her tradition for a woman, whose bride price has not been paid, to go on such a journey. She also refused to release my son.

“When I got to the village, the elders were angry that I did not come with my wife and son as my mother’s first child. They fined me N40,000. After that disgrace, I vowed to pay her bride price.

“I immediately sold the land I had for N1m, and I sent N500,000 to her account to keep for the purpose. In 2017, we went to her family and paid N280,000 for the bride price. They demanded groundnut oil, tubers of yam, among other things, which we valued at N60,000 and paid.”

The former bus driver said Gloria refused to follow him to the village when he became ill and travelled for treatment.

He alleged that while he was sick, she called to tell him that she and their son were starving. He said he instructed that his bus be sold and the proceeds given to Gloria to start a business and pay the son’s school fees.

He said he was shocked when his relatives called to inform him that his wife was remarrying.

He however added that though he still loves the woman, he has decided to let her go, but not without the release of his son and refund of the bride price.