I am sure NC members all have their views and have kept quiet out of (appropriate) deference to our right to make our individual choice. Obviously I do not need to explain anything to anyone in a purely personal matter but a few points are worthy of note:

The lady in question is 18 and therefore legally of age to marry under all laws and certainly under Muslim law.
She is proceeding for her undergraduate education in the UK in January. She had an A in computer science in her O levels and plans to get a degree in computer science.
3. Each and every one of my wives is a university graduate and some have worked and then stopped and in each case the choice was purely theirs.

It is a tradition in Kano that emirs and princes in choosing wives consider issues beyond the individual. The family is in every sense a social unit. My predecessor was married to princesses from Ilorin, Katsina and Sokoto.
5. The relationship between the late Lamido of Adamawa Aliyu Musdafa the father of the current Lamido is well known. Lamido Aliyu was the first emir turbaned after emir Sanusi I and they remained close until Sanusi’s death.

My own relationship with the current Lamido dates back to 1981 when he was Ciroma and commissioner for works. By the way the Lamido and I are not illiterates we know what we are doing and he does have a PhD in Engineering.
My own mother was married in Adamawa and lived there for more than two decades and I have eight younger brothers and sisters from there.
8. It is therefore natural that if I choose to marry from another kingdom Adamawa would be the first choice for me and I am extremely happy to strengthen these long historical bonds.

The young lady in question gave her free consent and even after the contract the wedding will not happen for a few years. By then she may be 21. If she freely consents to this I do not know on what moral grounds anyone has a grouse. She is an adult, she gave her consent, and her education is not being in anyway interrupted.
The real issue is that people do not accept cultural difference. And you can see it in the approach to these issues. I am supposed to be urbane and western educated. Yes but I am not European. I am a northern Nigerian Fulani Muslim brought up in a setting exactly like the one my children are being brought up in.
If you read this and it improves your understanding of this issue that is fine. If it does not just remember it is not your life, it is not your daughter and you are not my wife therefore it is not your business.

I obviously cannot stoop to the level of responding publicly to these kinds of articles. I have always been an advocate of girls marrying after maturing. I personally like the minimum age of 18 even though I understand those who say 16 is fine and indeed this is the law in most so called advanced countries.

Is this something that I expect a European or western trained or feminist mind to appreciate or endorse? Not at all. But has any American been bothered about my views on men marrying men or women marrying women who frankly I find primitive and bestial? No and my views do not matter. These are cultural issues.

Even in Nigeria I have heard all this stuff as in Pius article about “north” and northerners. Again it is a failure to respect difference. There are parts of this country where parents expect their daughters to live with their boyfriends for years and actually get pregnant before they marry. It has become culture. We do not have that in the north and if your daughter gets pregnant before marriage she brings nothing but shame to the name. But we do not issue condemnations. We agree that this is how they choose to live. And I can give many other examples.



When people use the term libido they do themselves injustice. First of all it shows how they view women and marriage. Women are nothing but the object of sexual desire. Marriage is nothing but sexual gratification. Well I am sorry but in my tradition it is not. Beauty and attraction rank third after religion and lineage in the choice of a wife.

They see an 18 year old young lady. I see a princess of noble birth whose mother is also a princess, and who has been brought up in a good Muslim home. This is the kind of woman that is prepared for giving birth to princes and bringing them up for the role expected of them in society.

Marriage is both social and political. Expanding the links of Kano which have already been established by my predecessors through inter-marriage with Katsina, Sokoto, Ilorin, Katagum, Ningi, Bauchi etc to Adamawa is an important and significant step and this is obvious to anyone with a sense of how royal families work and Ibn Khaldun’s sociological concept of Asabiyyah.

When the Emir of Kano marries it has to be something beyond what he personally desires to what is appropriate for that position and the expectations of the people he represents. You don’t just pick up any girl on the street. And by the way, for those who shout libido, sex is cheap and available everywhere in all shapes and sizes and all colours if that is what they want. And all ages too. Marriage is a very different proposition. The mother of your children has to be something other than, not at least much more than a mere object of sexual fantasy. But if you do not know that you need to buy yourself a brain.

I have daughters. And they know they can only marry from certain backgrounds. I always prefer family. When my daughter wanted to marry Mouftah Baba Ahmed’s son and she asked me, knowing my views on family, I told her Mouftah is family. And this is not about me and Mouftah or me an Hakeem or Nafiu. No. It goes back to Baba Ahmed and Emirs Sanusi and Bayero. And the same rule applies to my sons. And it applied to me as well.

It is, I am sure, very strange that I should even bother to comment on this. But it would be hypocritical for me to just keep quiet so long as these things are being posted and commented upon explicitly or in a snide manner. There was no secrecy in the marriage fatiha. The date was fixed and it was to be done in the central mosque after Friday prayers.

The day before we had a tragedy in Saudi Arabia and decided the fatiha must be very low key as a mark of respect for the dead. All traditional rulers in Adamawa were there, as were governors and commissioners, members of my own emirate council and Adamawa people. There is nothing here to hide or be apologetic about.

The emirs of Adamawa have shown love to my parents and grandparents and it is a sign of my appreciation of their love that i marry their daughter. This is the highest statement of friendship and loyalty on both sides.

Again if you understand this this is fine. If you do not, buy yourself a brain, A la Pius.

In any event this is my one and final and only comment on this. And I am making it out of respect for NC members.

MSII

Source: http://www.theheraldng.com/emir-of-kano-responds-to-childnotbride-critics/

CHILD NOT BRIDE! CHILD NOT BRIDE!! CHILD NOT BRIDE!!!

let him summerize it and repost thanx

All these paragraphs just to justify shagging tight-punny?

Vado:
All these paragraphs just to justify shagging tight-punny?

Did u see what I am saw? Buy ursef a brain!

Ghen ghen

OK u suppose put story story before you post...

Honestly, the lady is 18 already. Left for me, this will only be an issue if she didn't consent to it. This is different from the case of Oga Yerima

That's his business. . .

Interesting read

Sanusi is on point. His position is very valid. 18years old is not child but Adult. All over the world, 18 is an adult.

disloman:



Source:https://m.facebook.com/aliyu.mohd/posts/10153695556459553?pnref=story

Pls try and put paragraphs and format the fonts appropriately to make it better to read.

Lalasticlala your attention is needed here

Hope $20bn will not disappear from the bride's family sooner or later?

agabusta:


Pls try and put paragraphs and format the fonts appropriately to make it better to read.

Lalasticlala your attention is needed here

And you had to quote the entire thing?

agabusta:


Pls try and put paragraphs and format the fonts appropriately to make it better to read.

Lalasticlala your attention is needed here

Okay.Will just do that.Thanks.

Oga forget story n enjoy ur woman..
We have always known u guys for having high libido

Well said. Anyone that needs any explanation or justification beyond this needs to be borrowed a brain.

OK
His kettle of fish not mine

well-composed BULLSHIT!!

but why should a 50+yrs old man crush on an 18yrs old girl


PAEDOPHILE!!

Nice one my Emir. Congratulations on your wedding. As for the wailers no amount of your wailing can make us to change our noble cultural values. It better to get marry at 16yrs than to be a prostitute at the same age. Our noble cultural value is not influence by European like yours. Whether you like or not, we will continue upholding our culture anywhere anytime. Do you think your hatred towards (Fulani/Hausa/Northerners/Muslim) has any influence on our day-to-day activities? We don't give a damn about, what you think of us. And it will remain so till the end of time. We have more than centuries long of tradition and history. Unlike most of you, that your inferior barbarian culture, started with the coming of Europeans to our shared country. Ask your forefathers, when the white men came to present day Nigeria. We have an established political system, with laws and most importantly with religion. Nobody can alter this simple fact. The Hypocrisy of southern Nigerians is just funny and annoying. Your pathetic #ChildnotBride hasn't yield any positive result, if I were u. I will stop. It like asking the Vatican to be adopt atheism as their official religion. Stop trying to change what can't be change.

As$ hole

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Nothing do you Sir,

After all, Muhammed married Ayesha (Aisha) at age 9 in Medina, specifically at the home of Bani-al-Harith bin Khazraj.

You Sir, have married an 18 year old fresh SSCE holder. You've done well

Paedophile na paedophile

This man is funny. you married the girl at exactly age 18. so he no dey furk am when she be 17? gerrarahia mehn!. all this English doesn't change the fact that you are a paedophile. does the girl have any experience? of course she will think she is doing the right thing!

[size=13pt]If you read this and it improves your understanding of this issue that is fine. If it does not just remember it is not your life, it is not your daughter and you are not my wife therefore it is not your business.[/size] - Emir Sanusi 2015.

Well said sir.

Uncle Sanusi you still get time to explain your culture to mofos.

The said girl is 18 she's legally an adult and she can marry anyone she feels like.

The western law, Nigeria law recognize 18 as an adult, Sanusi has the legal right to marry her.

She will further her education in an abroad university I don't know why haters are wailing.

Abegi, meaning you were eyeing her at 17, c'mon a 52yr old can u imagine...


P.S- dont quote and spew trash

Paedophile

In summary,The girl is an adult and she gave her free consent to the marriage.

Y'all can take a chill pill now and move on to minding your damn business!!

This old man is just justifying his undying love for tight toto with this epistle. He should be dashed a brain, not everything that is legal is morally right. The question sane and rational people are asking him is that can he malam Sanusi Lamido the Emir of Kano give his 18yr old secondary school leaver daughter to a man that is old enough to be her grandfather as a FOURTH WIFE?