Senator Rabi’u Kwankwaso, the NNPP National leader, has advised the 1,800 couples under the mass wedding scheme against checking their spouses’ phones. This is to avoid anything that could lead to the marriage break up, he counseled.
Kwankwaso spoke at the reception organised for the couples by the State Government at the Open Theatre in the Kano Government House on Saturday.
He said checking spouses’ phones is one of the significant causes of marriage breakups, hence the need for couples to shun anything that could lead to such a crisis.
“You have been advised by all and sundry. I believe you have been advised a thousand times. Ulamas, parents, relatives and even business people have advised you on how to live peacefully with one another.
“But I have one single advice for you: checking spouses’ phones. Don’t peep at your spouses’ phones as that is the major cause of marriage breakup these days,” he said.
Leader of the Kwankwasiyya political movement, Senator Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, and Kano State Governor, Abba Kabir Yusuf, joined 1,700 couples at the much anticipated mass wedding initiative of the state.
At the grand wedding ceremony held at the Kano Emir’s palace mosque on Friday, Kwankwaso represented the 1,700 grooms while Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf stood as the representative (Wali) of the brides.
While the mass wedding was decentralized, 330 couples had been wed within the metropolis as five were ceremonially witnessed at the Kano central mosque.
The remaining was held at different local government levels to control the crowd and ease movement.
Chief Imam of Kano, Professor Sani Zahraddeen, was the officiating master as N50,000 dowry was presented to the bride on behalf of each groom.
