A 23-year-old spinster, Khadija Ibrahim, has dragged her father, Ibrahim Bassa, to courtfor refusing to accept her suitor because he is not...
Khadija on Monday sued her father before an Upper Area Court, Karu, Abuja for not allowing her to marry a man of her choice.
She said, “He has refused to grant my request for marriage and he has also not given me a satisfactory explanation to that effect.
“The man I want to marry has made several attempts to meet with my father to discuss the wedding plan but he always avoided him.
“The only reason he gave me was that the man I want to marry is not Fulani, which is not satisfactory to me because that is the only man I love.”
The respondent, however, told the court that the allegations of his daughter were all true.
According to Bassa, “It is true that I have not granted the man any audience.
“I have always avoided him because I am against his choice as a suitor.
“I have warned my daughter that marriage is not a child’s play. How can she get married to a man whose root and origin are not known to us?
“ If you are getting married in the Fulani tribe, the man or woman’s immediate and extended families must be known to everyone.
“My Lord, she is too young to make a choice of marriage and even to marry an outsider but she has remained adamant and even brought me to court.”
