A man, Abdullahi Yada’u, has divorced his wife for insisting she would vote for President Muhammadu Buhari in the presidential election in February.
Mr Yada’u, a resident of Kanam local government area of Plateau State, told BBC Hausa Service on Thursday that he divorced his wife, Hafsat Suleiman, because she insisted on voting for Mr Buhari.
Buhari is seeking re-election on the platform of his party, the All Progressives Congress (APC).
Yada’u stated that both of them had supported Buhari in the 2015 elections. But this time, he felt disappointed with the administration and decided not to vote for him again.
“I told her that she must not vote for him but she insisted which led to a quarrel which attracted the attention of our neighbours, I slapped her and told her to choose between voting for Buhari and staying with me. She ran away.
“Later her parents called me and I narrated to them what transpired between us. But still my wife insisted on voting for Mr Buhari, that’s how I divorced her in the presence of her parents,” he said.
His wife’s elder brother, Ibrahim Suleiman, said they felt very sad over what transpired between the couple.
“He really disgraced us. They have been having issues even in the previous election. She is the one that convinced him to vote for Buhari, now he insisted on voting for Mr Atiku Abubakar. We decided that we will not allow her to go back to him again,” Mr Ibrahim said.
