Ned Nwoko: Why I enjoy marrying young women

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Former Federal lawmaker, Ned Nwoko has revealed why he prefers to marry young women.

The Nigerian billionaire in an interview with BBC Igbo on Wednesday explained that polygamy helps in preventing young women from being promiscuous.

He added economic downturn has affected so many women who have turned to prostitution to survive.

Nwoko, the husband of the popular Nollywood actress Regina Daniels, the polygamist nature of northerners has helped to increase their population and made them the majority.

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.”

Nwoko also complained about how enlightenment has encouraged monogamy even though it is not our culture.

He said: “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.”