Senator Yerima Marries 15 year old Girl, Divorces 17 year old wife

According to City People Magazine, Senator Yerima has divorced his Egyptian 17 year old wife, Mariam. The former Zamfara state governor is also said to have married a new wife, also from Egypt, aged 15. Yerima is not allowed to have more than FOUR wives, hence why he had to divorce one to marry one.

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.

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.