Kano State governor’s daughter, Asiya Balaraba Ganduje has indicated to end her troubled marriage by repayment of N50,000 dowry.
She told an Upper Shari’a Court sitting in Filing Hockey in Kano State that she wanted the marriage with her husband who she has lived with for 16 years to end.
Asiya had sued her husband, Inuwa Uba at the Upper Sharia Court where she presented her claim through Islamic Khuli principles, saying, she was “fed up with the marriage”.
She also claimed that she is ready to return his N50,000 dowry to him as it is prescribed by Islamic jurisprudence that a woman had to pay the husband his dowry before the marriage to be dissolved.
However, counsel to the husband, argued that the N50,000 dowry wasn’t only what was outstanding to be returned to his client before the dissolution of marriage. He pleaded the unwilling wife to consider the situation and come back to her matrimonial home.
The lawyer, Barrister Umar I. Umar further revealed that there were lot of his client’s belongings in possession of the wife which includes his credentials, certificates of his properties and his cars.
“Above all, we want her to relinquish her right of possession in a joint venture of one rice milling company.”
But the counsel to the plaintiff led by Barrister Ibrahim Aliyu Nassarawa insisted that they will pay only N50,000 dowry advising the defendant to file another suit before another court for his claims.
“We want him to understand that the khul’i is based on the actual subject matter of the marriage which is dowry. His dowry was N50,000 and we say we are giving him N50, O00. But we are not going to abide by his conditions. All these issues are the subject matter of this suit. If he wants these claims, he should file another suit before another court. And we are saying that she is not willing to relinquish her right in the rice milling company. We are giving him what he gave us as dowry but we are not giving him what is not his own.”
The judge Khadi Abdullahi Halliru adjourned the case to 2nd February, 2023 for judgement.
