‘Divorce your husband’: Yobe APC Chairman apologises, withdraws comment

The Yobe State Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Mohammed Gadaka, has apologised and withdrawn his arguable remark urging joined women to divorcement their husbands if they were prevented from voting for the party.

Gadaka made the remark connected Thursday portion receiving hundreds of defectors into the APC successful Nangere.

During the event, helium reportedly told women whose husbands opposed their enactment for the ruling enactment to locomotion distant from their marriages, portion offering to wage their bride price.

“If your hubby won’t let you to ballot for APC, permission the marriage. I volition wage your bride terms and wed you,” helium said.

The remark subsequently sparked disapproval from residents and Islamic scholars, who described the remark arsenic provocative and inappropriate and warned that specified words could undermine household values.

Amid the backlash, Gadaka apologised and withdrew the connection successful a 42-second video shared connected Facebook by Mamma Mohammed, Director-General of Press and Media Affairs to Yobe State Governor Mai Mala Buni.

The APC president said his remark had been taken retired of context, explaining that it was made arsenic a gag rooted successful the accepted banter betwixt his Ngamo taste radical and the Kare-Kare-speaking people.

“My sta...