Controversial Yoruba actress Mercy Aigbe has revealed that her new famous Yoruba filmmaker husband, Adeoti Kazim, is Muslim and has the right to marry more than one wife.
The 45-year-old actress revealed this during a phone conversation with TVC talk show host Morayo Afolabi-Brown.
According to the Qur’an, Islam limits a man to four wives if he can be fair to all of them.
So while this is Aigbe’s third chance at marriage, it is Kazim’s second marriage.
Mr. Kazim has four children, while his first wife, Funsho, who lives in Minnesota, USA, is a noted fashion designer and owner of Asiwaju Couture.
The actress and her new husband had a private wedding ceremony in Lagos on New Year’s Eve and broke the news of their marriage on Sunday in Instagram.
This revelation comes a day after she told Ms. Afolabi-Brown, host of a popular talk show known as ‘Your View’, that her new husband and ex-husband, Lanre Gentry, were never friends.
The actress married Gentry in 2013 and divorced him in 2017.
The union produced a son, Juwon.
On Wednesday, Ms. Afolabi-Brown discussed the actress’ new marriage during her show.
He announced that the actress tried to call the show, but poor network signals prevented her from doing so.
Later, Aigbe would text the talk show host read live.
“I just want to clear the impression, Adekaz is not friends with Lanre Gentry,” the actress’s text message read.
After the many controversies that followed the wedding announcement, this was the first time that Aigbe would speak publicly about her controversial marriage.
Update
On Thursday morning, Ms. Afolabi-Brown confirmed to viewers that she had an extensive chat with the famous actress on Wednesday night.
During the conversation, which was monitored by PREMIUM TIMES, Ms. Afolabi-Brown said that the mother of two talked about some issues related to her new marriage.
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She said: “I spoke to her (Mercy) last night, she called me to correct an impression and that it’s wrong for us to say, ‘how can you go and marry your ex-husband’s best friend.’ He said they were never friends.
They only attended an event where her current husband, an industry marketer, invited her to his birthday party, which she had attended at her ex-husband’s company.
“She told me that the man is a Muslim, he has the right to more than one wife, so yes, he has problems with the first wife, and now he is married to her as a second wife and as a second wife, right? she deserves to be happy? ”
The talk show host said that the actress also stated that people were sending her derogatory messages on Instagram, which was depressing for her and her children.