Nigeria, Jan. 26 -- The wife of the former governor of Kaduna State, Hadiza Isma El-Rufai, has shared how she ended up in a polygamous marriage "not by choice initially," having come from a monogamous family.

Mrs El-Rufai, the first wife of Nasir El-Rufai, stated this in a post via her X handle on Sunday while reacting to a social media debate on polygamy.

In her post, which generated heated arguments as observed by PREMIUM TIMES, the former Kaduna first lady said that when she married her husband, she was not expecting him to take an additional wife, even though he was "raised in a polygamous family."

"When we agreed to get married," she said, referring to her husband El-Rufai, "I envisaged a monogamous marriage, even though the subje...