[Mhiz Rebecca]

A jilted 32-year old man, who was dumped by his
wife on a wedding day over her suspicion of his
having a low sperm count challenge, has married
another woman who is now heavily pregnant for him.
The man, Ekene Uzoigwe, got married to Ifunanya
Igwebuike, according to Igbo tradition and had
wanted to consummate the marriage at St Patrick
Catholic Church, Umuchu in Aguata Local
government area of Anambra State.
However, Ifunanya, a graduate of Federal
Polytechnic, Oko, Anambra State, did the unthinkable
when she snubbed her groom on her wedding day
and called off the wedding already arranged by the
two families.
The wedding was to take place on Saturday, 3
January, 2015 and guests invited to witness the
ceremony were shocked when Ifunaya refused to
show up in church to tie the knot with Uzoigwe.
After several hours of waiting, P.M.EXPRESS
gathered she later sent a message to the Parish
Priest, Rev. Father Lawrence Maduagwu, that she
was no longer interested and asked him to cancel
the wedding.
Ifunanya alleged that she could not go ahead with
the marriage because she was a graduate unlike
Uzoigwe whom she claimed was a school drop-out.
She also claimed that she suspected that her
husband-to-be then was impotent because he had
been unable to impregnate her after several months
of their courtship.
Rev. Maduagwu had no option than to inform the
groom and the guests that were already seated at
the church hall that the wedding had been cancelled.
This caused an uproar in the church with guests
expressing shock over what happened.
After the sad event, Uzoigwe moved on and married
another wife who is now pregnant and will be
delivered.
When our correspondent contacted Ifunanya, she
said had forgotten the whole thing and moved on
with her life.
She also said her family has refunded to Uzoigwe
everything he spent.
Narrating what happened, Uzoigwe said he met
Ifunanya at their home town, Umuchu, where he
proposed to her marriage and she agreed on
condition that he would send her to school, which
he agreed.
He said after she gained admission, he was financing
her education and they agreed to wed during her
final year.
He said he had paid her bride price and she was part
of the whole wedding plan and he even gave her
parents N160,000 to prepare for the wedding,
besides other arrangements and expenses incurred
on the wedding and reception.
The jilted man said Ifunaya did not considered it
worthy to inform him about her decision to back out
of the wedding until he got to the church and the
priest had to inform him and their guests about the
cancellation of the wedding.
“If she had informed me, I would not have made
arrangements. We had already cooked food and
bought drinks for the wedding,” he said.
Uzoigwe said when he contacted her parents about
the whole incident, they only told him that they
could not forced her to go against her wishes but
only asked him to come and take back the money he
gave them to prepare for the wedding.
Uzoigwe said he was still in shock about that
incident because he did not have any quarrel with
Ifunanya before the fateful day.
He said he also made sure she was comfortable by
making money available to her while in school.
Uzoigwe is a business man based in Abakiliki, the
Ebonyi State capital.