Awawu Haruna and her father, Haruna Danjuma, were taken before the Kwara State family court by her legal husband, Ayuba Sule, after she wed another man.
Sule said that his wife got remarried after their marriage was not declared null and void.
The guy said before the court that, in accordance with Islamic law and traditions, his father-in-law had a significant influence on his marriage to her daughter.
However, Sule said that on August 6, 2022, the father-in-law, while the marriage contract with him was still in effect, helped arrange a second marriage between his daughter and one Jemilu Bahause.
“Alhaji Haruna Danjuma who is the father of my wife Awawu, in order to conceal the illegality, relocated her daughter and the new husband, Jemilu Bahause to an unknown location and they have since been living together as husband and wife,” Sule told the court.
The matter was postponed for a hearing on September 26, 2022, by Magistrate Abdulraheem Bello.
He commanded the husband and wife, Awawu and Jemilu, as well as the groom’s father, to be detained at the federal prison in Ilorin.
The will be in their custody till the next hearing on September 26, 2022.
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