This love triangle is one that is quite surprising and upsetting at the same time.
According to a news report by News Agency of Nigeria, NAN, a married 51-year-old businessman, Ayobami Oyedutan, was caught up in flames with his extra-marital lover after the woman’s estranged boyfriend felt it was time to take out his revenge on the two lovers.
NAN learnt that the trio involved in the love triangle were married to different spouses.
The jilted man was said to have attacked the duo at a beer parlor in Ijaiye area of Lagos State where he reportedly sprayed them with gasoline and set them ablaze with the strike of a single match.
Eyewitnesses at the scene of the unfortunate incident said it happened on Sunday at the woman’s beer parlour located at Americana Street, Jankara, Agbado-Ijaiye, Lagos State.
The woman died at the bar, while her friend, Oyedutan died on Monday at Gbagada General Hospital following severe burns sustained in the fire.
The woman was simply identified as ”Mama-Corner”.
According to a witness: “The ex-lover of the woman, who was not happy over her unfaithfulness to him, became angry and went to the beer parlour, sprayed the man and woman with petrol and lit them up.”
”The man, who lit the fire, got his cloth burnt as he was running out. The woman died in the beer parlour, the lover man died on Monday at Gbagada General Hospital,” a source said.
The businessman was buried on Tuesday at his house in Ajasa Village, Command area of Ipaja, Lagos.
The wife of the late businessman, Tolu Oyedutan, described his death as a “painful loss’’.
She told sympathisers that she was with her late husband until he gave up the ghost at about 11pm on Monday.
”My regret now is that my five-year-old son won’t live to see his father when he grows up,” the bereaved wife said.
Wages of sin.