Mrs Boladale Bamidele, the mother of Bolutife, a Cairo-based man burnt to death by his wife, Ifeoluwa, in Koka, Osun state, on Saturday said jealousy must have made his son’s wife to set him ablaze.
Ifeoluwa had on Sunday, July 17 set ablaze Bolutife in their Koka, Osun State home, having suspected him of having an extra marital affair, leaving him seriously injured while she fled the scene.
Bolutife eventually gave up the ghost at the University College Hospital, Ibadan, Oyo state, as police launched a manhunt for Ifeoluwa, who also died last Thursday after taking poisonous substance.
Speaking to journalists on Saturday, the grieving mother, who said Bolutife was her last child.
She added that the couple got married last year September, but some members of the family had initially opposed Bolutife from getting married to her.
She said, “Apart from her being a jealous type, she was decent as a lady. She was not adulterous. She was able to last that long in our house because she was not involving in indecent act as a young lady but she used to check through her husband’s phone.
“Whenever she observed that he was chatting with anyone, even if the person was Bolutife’s elder in the family, she would become jealous.
That was her only flaw and I used to talk to her to desist from such act. Some members of the family opposed Bolutife having her as wife but my son insisted that she was the one he liked.”