The petitioner according the report, sought for the dissolution of her marriage through Islamic means (Khul’i), claiming that she was tired and fed up with Inuwa's marriage.
The 16-year-old marriage between the daughter of Governor Abdullahi Ganduje of the Kano State, Northwest Nigeria, Asiya and Inuwa Uba has been dissolved.
An Upper Shari’a Court sitting in Kano State, dissolved the marriage on Thursday, through Khul’i (divorce by Islamic means).
Delivering the ruling, the presiding Judge, Malam Abdullahi Halliru, ordered the plaintiff to return N50,000 paid as pride price by the respondent, the News Agency of Nigeria reports.
The court held that “the conditions the respondent earlier raised before the court should be based on Islamic Sunnah on Khul’i.
“Khul’i is strictly based on returning the dowry given to a woman, the condition should not affect her in any way, especially in giving out her wealth," the court ruled.
Earlier, the Petitioner’s Counsel, Ibrahim Aliyu-Nassarawa, told the court that his client insisted on returning the N50,000 bride price received from her husband in exchange for a divorce.
The petitioner according the report, sought for the dissolution of her marriage through Islamic means (Khul’i), claiming that she was tired and fed up with Inuwa's marriage.
“Every woman who is living under strange conditions has a right under Islamic law to approach the court and seek for her marriage to be dissolved with the condition to return the dowry.”
Counsel to the respondent, Mr Umar I. Umar, said the issue was beyond the payment of the N50,000 bride price.
“The respondent has four kids with the plaintiff, but all efforts to reconcile them proved abortive,” Umar said.
He gave two conditions regarding some of his belongings, that the plaintiff should return all his client’s credentials, house certificates and cars and relinquish her rights in their joint rice company before the divorce.