Nigerian Men Should Marry More Than One Wife. -Senate Leader, Alli Ndume

                                           

In what looked like a funny drama on the heels of various economic and social issues challenging Nigeria at this present time. There was mixed reactions at the floor of the Senate when the Senate Leader Senator Mohammed Alli Ndume Borno South, interestingly ask the Senate President Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki to marry more wives and in fact all Nigerians starting from the senators should marry more than one wife.

The motion was moved by the All Progressives Congress (APC) Senator in response to the special contribution and motion presented by Senator Oluremi Tinubu representing Lagos west to mark the international women’s day Celebration on Tuesday 8^th March 2016. In his reaction the Senate leader Alli Ndume stated that all the care women needs is to marry them and therefore urged all men including the Senate President to marry more than one wife.

Senator Ndume in his words says “Men should take care of women by not just befriending them, but by going further to marry them.I know there is nowhere in the Bible that prohibits marrying more than one wife starting with the Senate president, I ask him to consider marrying one wife. Ndume, thereafter, made a formal request to the Senate to declare that Nigerian men should marry more than one wife. As a sign of respect for women, let’s urge men to marry more than one wife,” he said.

His motion was seconded by Suleiman Nazif, a senator from Bauchi State. However the motion could not sail through as most of the senators did not support as the Nays had it on the floor of the senate thereby throwing the motion out.

Senator Oluremi Tinubu in her motion earlier described women as being courageous and resilient and that without the women the Nation cannot move forward. In support of the motion by Senator Tinubu, Senator representing Adamawa State, Binta Marsi Garba took a swipe at Senator Alli Ndume that women are not sex tools and should not be consider as such. She said the Holy  Bible is in support of one man, one woman and that Nigerian women want gender parity where women and men can work side by side.”