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, City People reports.
According to the magazine, 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 years, saying it was anti-Islam.
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