Former Governor and presidential aspirant, Sani Yerima, believes he did nothing wrong marrying a 13-year old girl.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The 2009 marriage generated much criticisms among child rights activists at the time but Mr Yerima insists he did not contravene any Nigerian law.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He stunned many Nigerians when he allegedly paid $100,000 to the bride\u2019s family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Speaking during an interview on Channels Television\u2019s Politics Today, the ex-governor defended his decision, saying he never did anything wrong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
According to him, there is no society in the country that has an age bracket before marriage can take place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The senator explained that the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) which initially wanted to try him was forced to drop the case because he did nothing wrong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThere is no law in Nigeria that determines when and how you get married. Muslims have Sharia, the Christians I don\u2019t know what their doctrines say,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
If I had done anything wrong, I would have been tried in court. NAPTIP wanted to try the case and they dropped the matter because I didn\u2019t do anything wrong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWhatever you are doing, if you are ignorant of the law, then you are bound to have problems. Once you do anything according to law, you don\u2019t have a problem in any society.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
When asked if he would consider marrying a minor again, he neither replied in an affirmative nor negative tone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Rather, he said that under Sharia law, there are some criteria that will be followed before any marriage would take place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He insisted that his decisions would always be backed by the law as he would never be caught doing anything unlawful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The APC chieftain promised to turn around the fortunes of Nigeria should he clinch the APC\u2019s ticket ahead of the 2023 general elections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Former Governor and presidential aspirant, Sani Yerima, believes he did nothing wrong marrying a 13-year old girl. <\/p>\n
The 2009 marriage generated much criticisms among child rights activists at the time but Mr Yerima insists he did not contravene any Nigerian law.<\/p>\n
He stunned many Nigerians when he allegedly paid $100,000 to the bride\u2019s family.<\/p>\n
Speaking during an interview on Channels Television\u2019s Politics Today, the ex-governor defended his decision, saying he never did anything wrong.<\/p>\n
According to him, there is no society in the country that has an age bracket before marriage can take place.<\/p>\n
The senator explained that the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) which initially wanted to try him was forced to drop the case because he did nothing wrong.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere is no law in Nigeria that determines when and how you get married. Muslims have Sharia, the Christians I don\u2019t know what their doctrines say,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
If I had done anything wrong, I would have been tried in court. NAPTIP wanted to try the case and they dropped the matter because I didn\u2019t do anything wrong.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhatever you are doing, if you are ignorant of the law, then you are bound to have problems. Once you do anything according to law, you don\u2019t have a problem in any society.\u201d<\/p>\n
When asked if he would consider marrying a minor again, he neither replied in an affirmative nor negative tone.<\/p>\n
Rather, he said that under Sharia law, there are some criteria that will be followed before any marriage would take place.<\/p>\n
He insisted that his decisions would always be backed by the law as he would never be caught doing anything unlawful.<\/p>\n
The APC chieftain promised to turn around the fortunes of Nigeria should he clinch the APC\u2019s ticket ahead of the 2023 general elections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":526,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-latest"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=523"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":527,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523\/revisions\/527"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}