Alison Madueke, a former chief of naval staff, has filed a petition before the Lagos state high court, seeking to stop Diezani, former minister of petroleum, from using his last name.
Madueke, a former military governor of Anambra and Imo states, married Diezani under the Marriage Act on June 30, 1999.
However, in Madueke’s petition for jactitation of marriage, he claimed Diezani had filed for divorce at the Nasarawa State High Court in Mararaba Gurku in November 2021, citing the “irreconcilable breakdown” of their marriage.
He said since May 2015, he has lived apart from the respondent after she travelled to the UK.