ALMOST everything about Senator Ahmed Sani Yerima, seems controversially different. He was the first Northern governor to introduce Sharia legal system, which was later described as political sharia by ex- President Olusegun Obasanjo.
He was reported to have married a 15-year-old girl named Hauwa'u as his fourth wife in 2006 after he allegedly forced her to drop out of school at Junior Secondary School class 3.
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