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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