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NIGERIA - SENATOR YERIMA
DIVORCES AGE 17 EGYPTIAN 4TH WIFE & MARRIES 15-YEAR-OLD
Sen.
Ahmed Yerima this year was strongly against the deletion of the section of the
1999 constitution which pegged the official marriage age in Nigeria as 18 year,
saying it was anti-Islam.
Three years after
marrying a 14-year-old Egyptian girl named Marian, which was widely protested
in Nigeria, former Zamfara state governor and serving senator of the federal
republic of Nigeria, Sen. Ahmed Yerima, has reportedly divorced her to marry a
new wife. According to reports, Sen.Yerima and four men, said to be members of
the Zamfara State House of Assembly were in Egypt a few weeks ago for the
wedding fathia of a new bride said to be 15 years old.
Marian who is now 17
and a mother of one, is believed to be the daughter of the former governor’s
driver whenever he visits Egypt. The reason he divorced her is to enable him
take a new wife as he’s not allowed more than four wives.
The Senator is
alleged to have married and divorced a few women in the last few years but has
never changed his first three wives, only the fourth ones.
Sen. Ahmed Yerima
this year was strongly against the deletion of the section of the 1999
constitution which pegged the official marriage age in Nigeria as 18 year,
saying it was anti-Islam.
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