UWANI MUSA ABBA AJI, J.C.A. (Delivering the leading Judgment): This is an appeal against the decision of the Customary Court of Appeal sitting in Umuahia, Abia State in a divorce suit in Appeal No. CCA/UM/21/2012 delivered on the 15th day of March, 2012.
In the Customary Court Mbawsi, in Isiala Ngwa North Local Government Area of Abia State, the Appellant as Petitioner in the trial Customary Court seeks for the following reliefs:
a) An order dissolving the marriage between the petitioner and the Respondent.
b) An order granting the custody of the four children of the marriage to the Petitioner.
The grounds of the petition are that the Respondent had exhibited acts of cruelty and infidelity towards him and that the marriage had broken down irretrievably as they lived apart for a period of three years.
Judgment was entered for the petitioner/Appellant on the 2nd day of August, 2010. The Respondent was dissatisfied with the decision of the trial court on the ground that she was not given…