Nigeria: Raging Controversy Over Obi of Igbodo's Marriage to Non-Indigene

16 January 2013

Asaba — WHAT played out in England in 1936 when King Edward VIII abdicated his throne to marry the woman he dearly loved, seems to be playing out in Igbodo kingdom in Delta State. The Obi of the community is in a tangle with his subjects over whether to abide by the age-long tradition and custom of the people and marry a native or insist om marrying his Abakaliki-born heartthrob.

Before the Abakaliki-born wife of the Obi was forcibly ejected from the palace recently, a cold war had brewed between the young Obi who is in his 30s and majority of his subjects especially the womenfolk and some palace chiefs, who are insisting that marrying a non indigene was a desecration of their land.

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