One, two, three, four, up to 27. That is the number of
children Alhassan Ado Daguwa, majority leader of the house of representatives,
currently has.
Can you beat that?
That is not all; the lawmaker who represents Doguwa/Tudun
Wada federal constituency of Kano state, says he hopes to have more.
During the house plenary session on Wednesday, he showed off
his four wives whom he said had come with him for the day’s business.
He was being sworn in as the majority leader, and said he
would like to present the four wives to the lawmakers.
“Mr. Speaker, I would like to let you know that with me
today here, are my four respected wives,” he said, before requesting all four
to stand up to the cheering of his colleagues.
“Mr Speaker, these four wives you have seen have produced 27
kids for me, and I am still counting. I am still counting.”
Responding, Femi Gbajabiamila, the speaker, jokingly asked
him to “continue”, saying “the more, the merrier”.
The speaker said: “I must bring to the knowledge of this
house a little anecdote, what you told me, sometime ago. You told me, don’t beg
me, you told me it was getting late around 7 o’clock, and there were many
children playing in front of your house in Kano.
“You got worried and you went out, you told the children,
“common, what are you still doing outside by this time of the day. You people
should go to your homes.
“And one of them said to you, “haba, baba, this is my
house.” So he was one of those 27
children. But I guess, the more, the merrier. You get my point; continue.”
Doguwa’s comments comes a few days after Muhammad Sanusi II,
emir of Kano, said the predominant culture of marrying more than one wife by
Nigerians in the north is the major cause of poverty in the region.
“There are people who cannot afford to feed one wife but are
ready to marry three wives and have more children than they can feed, talk less
of paying for their school fees,” he had said.
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