A wedding which held in Lagos on Saturday, August 29, was disrupted when a man stormed the venue with his family members and claimed the bride is his wife.
The wedding was underway at the Great Salvation Christian Centre, aka Father’s Church, on Ako Aro Road, in the Ifako-Ijaiye area of Lagos State, when the man named Iberemu Osadebe, arrived and caused a scene.
According to Punch, 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 sickbed 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.