Business mogul and Nigerian politician, Ned Nwoko has given reasons to why he chose to be a polygamist and how economic reasons influenced his decision.
The Delta state indigene who is known to have six wives, in a recent interview with BBC Igbo on Wednesday, explained that the average northerner had at least two wives, which he argued helps society by preventing women from being promiscuous.
He said: “The average Northerner marrying two, three, four women, are helping the society because it is the economic downturn that has affected so many women who you see doing prostitution and all that.
“But the fallacy of it all is that Christianity does not allow that in the South and yet, the average Southern man has 10 girlfriends.”
The politician also said the polygamist nature of northerners has helped to increase their population and made them the majority.
Nwoko also complained about how enlightenment has encouraged monogamy even though it is not our culture.
“I love my culture as I know it, not as they are trying to dilute it. Igbo culture is wonderful and should be promoted the way it has always been.
“But even looking at that, look at your population in Nigeria and what I will call the economy of marriage, as an Igbo man with one wife, four children, a Northerner has four wives with five children each, in the next 10 years, 20 years, imagine the population of the Northerners,” he added.
