Actress Regina Daniels’ husband Ned Nwoko has defended polygamy, saying it saves the economy.
Speaking in a recent interview with BBC Igbo, the billionaire opened up on his sentiments about polygamy, also stating how it has affected the socio-cultural life of northern Nigerians as opposed to their southern compatriots.
He said, “The average northerner marrying two, three, four women, they are helping the society because it is the economic downturn that has affected so many women who you see doing prostitution and all that.
“But the fallacy of it all is that Christianity does not allow that in the south and yet, the average southern man has 10 girlfriends.”
Mr Nwoko also said polygamy has helped the northerners dominate in population, also adding that monogamy is not African culture as polygamy is.
“I love my culture as I know it, not as they are trying to dilute it. Igbo culture is wonderful and should be promoted the way it has always been.
“But even looking at that, look at your population in Nigeria and what I will call the economy of marriage, as an Igbo man with one wife, four children, a northerner has four wives with five children each, in the next 10 years, 20 years, imagine the population of the northerners,” he said.
Nwoko who already has six wives said in an interview in 2020 that all his wives including Regina are aware that he can take even more wives as it pleases him.
