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.
Source: lindaikeji blog.