Lekan is standing preliminary for the supposed homicide of Ronke before a Lagos State High Court in Ikeja.
51-year-old Lekan had supposedly beat his significant other to death at their home in the Egbeda-Idimu region of Lagos State.
He was asserted to have bolted the entryway on the carcass and their two kids previously the episode was found by a babysitter and later answered to the police.
At the Wednesday continuing, while at the same time being driven in proof by his direction, Robert Clarke (SAN), Lekan told the court that he was incited when he caught his significant other conversing with her sweetheart.
He stated, "On May 5, 2016, I heard my significant other addressing somebody on the phone, saying, 'Kayode, you're sweet; what did you use in laying down with me?'
"I was angry, so I slapped her from behind; she fell because of the slap. She later stood up, held me and said she was sad. She went into the space to have her shower.
"She had before requested that I purchase moin-moin and pap. Along these lines, when she left the washroom, she got some information about the moin-moin and I disclosed to her that I would take my very own moin-moin with garri, while she had her very own with pap.
"From that point, I went to bed. Be that as it may, she said she was going down the stairs to play a bit.
"When I woke up at midnight, I met her on the lounge chair and I inquired as to why she was still there. She said she would go along with me later and I returned to the room.
"On that day, when I was going out, I saw her on the love seat with her telephone close to her; I just dropped her vehicle cash like I regularly do, bolted the entryway with my very own key and left for work.
"Around 4pm, my cousin went to my work environment and he disclosed to me that my dad solicited him to advise me from my better half's passing.
I cleared out quickly, yet the gridlock on the Oshodi-Apapa Expressway did not enable me to get to Oshodi until past 9pm. I went to my dad's place in Ladipo with my cousin."
Lekan, amid an interrogation by the state examiner, Y.G. Osuala, denied leaving with the perished's telephone upon the arrival of the occurrence,
including that when he caught his better half chatting on the telephone with the supposed sweetheart was the first occasion when he knew she was having an additional conjugal illicit relationship.
The investigator, in any case, read out his announcement to the police, where he said he got one Kayode in his parlor at some point in March 2016,
including that the day of the occurrence, he utilized the chance to take his significant other's telephone to experience her content and Whatsapp messages.
Lekan told the court that he fled for three days before handing himself over to the police since his dad approached him to remain away for dread that individuals may assault him.
He, nonetheless, denied pummeling his better half when she was alive.
He stated, "I am astonished that the post-mortem examination result demonstrated proof of the attack, harms, and
injury on her body since I just slapped her and I conceded that the slap may have made her face swollen, yet I didn't murder my better half.
I have no motivation to slaughter her since we settled our disparities that night."
Prior, the caretaker, Sola Adamolekun, told the court that the perished, who regularly opened the entryway for her, did not open the entryway upon the arrival of the occurrence.
She stated, "I, for the most part, continue by 6am and the litigant would have marginally opened the entryway for me when he was going out to work, while the perished would open the way to the flat for me.
"Upon the arrival of the episode, the primary entryway to the compound was bolted. I needed to thump and one of the neighbors opened the door for me.
"On getting to the condo door, it was bolted and I thumped, however, no one addressed me. In this way, I went down the stairs to meet their neighbor to get some information about the family.
"As I was addressing the neighbor, the most established offspring of the family yelled 'grandmother' and I got some information about his mom, however, he said she declined to wake up.
"The police were reached and the entryway was constrained open and we discovered madam lying face up."
The managing judge, Justice Josephine Oyefeso, suspended the case till November 30.
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