Governor Babangida Aliyu of Niger on Wednesday canvassed for a law to regulate the number of wives and children a man should have, saying keeping large families is no longer fashionable.
Exchanging views with officials of the International Federation of Muslim Lawyers who visited him in Minna, Mr. Aliyu urged clerics to commence preaching against large families.
He criticised the practice by some men who got married to new wives without first seeking the consent of their senior wives as a negation of the principle of their faith on marrying additional wives.
According to the governor, the scripture provides that before a man can take a second wife, he should first of all seek the consent of the senior wife to make her realise why the action is necessary, even to the extent of inducing her to accept the idea.
“We should do things that are convenient for us and for the wife and the children so that when we go to the great beyond, no one will be raining abuses on us,” he said.
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