In Nigeria,the Governor of Niger State Babangida Aliyu has
carpeted human rights activists and organisations defending a
Bida-based Islamic scholar, Mohammed Masaba, said to be married to 86
women.
The defence put up for Masaba by the groups, the governor said, was morally wrong and unjustified.
Aliyu spoke on Tuesday while swearing-in the first female Chief Judge in the state, Justice Fati Abubakar.
The new CJ is the wife of former military Head of State, Gen. Abdulsalami Abubakar.
For marrying 86 women, the state
government had engaged the cleric in a legal tussle, an action that
prompted over 20 human rights groups to defend Masaba.
