European Union Managing Director for Africa, Dr. Nicholas Westcott, has said the EU's stand on same sex marriage was not meant to impose any European morality or culture on Nigeria.
He, however, expressed concern over the same sex marriage prohibition Act recently signed into law by President Goodluck Jonathan, stressing that the law contradicted the 1999 Constitution, hence his concern about the rights of all Nigerians, irrespective of sexual orientation.
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