Nigerian Woman Who Divorced Husband To Marry Daughter’s Boyfriend Speaks

A Nigerian woman, Malama Khadija who divorced her husband to marry her daughter’s boyfriend has opened up on why she took the shocking decision.

The incident happened in Rano Local Government Area of Kano State and got to public knowledge during a live broadcast from a local radio station.

Khadija said that she made the decision to marry the boyfriend of her daughter, Aisha, because she rejected his proposal and didn’t want the suitor to escape her family.

Khadija said she was healthy and had been living happily with her new husband who her daughter refused to marry.

Defending her action, she said her decision to go ahead with the marriage was not prohibited in Islam. According to her, after realising that her daughter decided not to marry the man, she took the decision to marry him so that both of them would not lose him.

She said, “I didn’t do it with ignorance. I contacted clerics and they said it is not prohibited in Islam. When I contacted him (the new husband), he agreed, but my parents and relatives refused to do the marriage rites. That was why I decided to go to Hisbah and we are happily married now.”

One of her relatives, while speaking on the radio station, accused the Hisbah Commandant, Rano LGA, of marrying off Khadija without the consent of the family.

Khadija’s uncle, Abdullahi Rano, said the family refused to allow the woman marry her daughter’s boyfriend because she deliberately dissolved her first marriage in order to marry him.

He said, “She mounted pressure on her husband to divorce her just to marry the man. We can’t do this shameful thing in our family which was why we refused to join them in marriage.

“We are not happy with what Hisbah did and we are reporting to bring out our daughter. We want the general commandant and the state government to look into the matter.”

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