Ifedayo Olarinde popularly known as Daddy Freeze, is a Nigerian-Romanian broadcaster and radio talk show host has reacted to reports about Ikoyi registry marriages being illegal and invalid.
A Federal High Court in Lagos was reported to have given the verdict on Ikoyi registry earlier. In his reaction, Daddy Freeze attributed the failure of his first marriage to the report about the registry.
Daddy Freeze who had his court wedding at the venue declared that his first marriage was invalid from the very beginning.
“No wonder my first marriage didn’t work out. It was null and void from the get go.??
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If this report had come out sooner, I won’t even have needed a divorce, na every body go your way for end am.?”.
In the meantime, the Ministry of Interior has debunked reports making the rounds that the Federal High Court sitting in Lagos has declared all marriages conducted by the Ikoyi marriage registry illegal and invalid.
In a statement on Tuesday evening, the Permanent Secretary and Principal Registrar of Marriages, Ministry Of Interior, described the reports as “false, misleading and a deliberate distortion of the decision of the Court in Suit No: FHC/L/CS/816/18 between Eti-Osa Local Government Council & 3 others”.
According to the statement, the court only ruled that the Federal Government, through the Ministry of Interior, is constitutionally empowered to conduct marriages in Nigeria and the Local Governments were only delegated by the Federal Government to conduct marriages, by virtue of Legal Notices issued pursuant to the Marriage Act.
It also stated that contrary to their (local government’s) pleading, the trial judge held that nothing in the role of local governments, as defined in the Constitution, suggests that they can conduct or contract marriages. However, the only power is derived from the Legal Notices issued by the President.
