A Nigerian woman, Florence Friday, cancelled her wedding allegedly over the groom's refusal to leave his family house and rent an apartment.
The wedding was scheduled for
Saturday, May 4th, 2024, in Farin Lamba, Vom, Jos South Local Government Area
of Plateau State.
Contrary to reports that
Florence cancelled the wedding a day before the ceremony, her cousin, Anny
Roberts, claimed it was called off over a month ago.
“Florence Friday is my cousin
and this isn't the situation, You people's Morgak did not pay her complete
bride price but he wants to proceed with the wedding. And again this wedding
was cancelled more than a month ago. Let's be careful what we post,” she
posted.
According to unconfirmed
reports, Florence had earlier requested N30,000 from her groom, Morgak James
Seri, on March 28th to book her wedding gown.
Morgak gave her N15,000 with a
promise to complete it the following week but she allegedly threatened to call
off the wedding if she didn't receive the full amount. Morgak sent her the full amount two days later
to book the wedding dress.
However, after the couple
resolved the dress issue, Florence requested Morgak to move out of his family
house and rent an apartment. After a lengthy debate, they agreed to live in the
family house for two months after the wedding before renting an apartment.
This agreement was reached
before Morgak proceeded with the introductions, church signing, and paying the
bride price. However, the wedding didn't take place.
Confirming the development,
Florence's cousin, Naomi Kareem, said the groom was in a hurry to get married
so that Florence could come to stay at his family house and take care of his
sick parents.
"This wedding was put on
hold (the last time I heard anything about the wedding was in March). They
fixed a date without my family's consent. How do you fix a wedding without
giving the family time to prepare for it. We kept asking her why the rush,
apparently he was putting her under pressure, so she can come stay at his
family house and take care of his sick parents,' Naomi wrote.
“He was putting pressure on her
because he wanted our family to fund the entire wedding. This may not have been
a problem (this is me saying but I know my grandad and the entire family sef,
would not want it) if they gave us ample time.”
“Bear in mind that the
cancellation of introduction, was because the dates clashed with visiting day
(which we don’t joke with and this happens once a term), so as a family, we
requested for it to be moved.”
"Also, bear in mind that
she has been the one giving him money for almost all the wedding preparations.
I really wouldn’t want to say more than this. She didn’t call off the wedding
abruptly and of all the silly reasons to think of, it’s payment for wedding
gown.
One Gotau Nenpoji Gotau, who
claimed to be a cousin of the groom, confirmed that the wedding was cancelled
because Florence had insisted that Morgak should rent an apartment.
“According to Morgak, it all
started like a joke. In about two weeks to the wedding, one faithful day while
they were on phone call gisting about their wedding plans. She then ask him a
question, where did you say we are going to stay after our wedding. He replied;
at Vom. and she ask, with your parents? He answered yes, and further said, but
for just two months so i can figure out what next, probably to rent a place in
Vom since that's where i make my earns need. Then he ask, why is she asking him
that question when they have discuss about it already. She said she is no
longer inline with that agreement and insisted that he must rent a house before
the wedding date, with emphasis that the house must be rented in Jos not Vom,”
he narrated.
"Politely, he responded;
we will rent a house wherever you so wish and desire but after the wedding,
because I have a lot of things to put in place at the moment before the wedding
date which you're aware, he said!
"He even went too weird to
calculate for her what her family ask him to provide before he comes to pick
her the day before the D-Day (eve) and it cost more than 500k (+ T.P) aside
from the wedding plan itself.
"Upon that, she still
insist that he must rent the house "IF NOT NO WEDDING". He again
reminded her of their agreement to stay for two months in the family house
after the wedding before parking out and sequel to that, renting a house now
will be more or less economic illiteracy and again at a peak of this hard time,
his strength can't shoulder that burden and it's too late to go about looking
for a house prompt to the wedding date.
“He further said, beside what
is the essence of renting a house in Jos when none of them is working or
running any business there. He could have consider that option if any of them
is working in Jos or running any business there. But she said she is not going
to stay in the village and that's her final.”
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