The Accountant-General of the Federation, Ahmed Idris has allegedly married a 16-year-old girl Kano State girl, simply identified as Hussain, as his fourth wife, but absented himself from the ceremony after SaharaReporters blew the lid.
Despite SaharaReporters report exposing the accountant’s planned marriage to the underage girl, Idris still proceeded with the wedding, but failed to show up physically in order to avoid raising more publicity.
A family source told SaharaReporters on Saturday that the event which was initially planned for Friday was rescheduled to Saturday due to the wedding plans exposed by SaharaReporters.
The source said, “The wedding held today (Saturday); when they saw the news on Friday, they changed the date to today. The Accountant-General didn’t attend the ceremony.”
The family had accused Idris of luring the teenager with millions of naira.
A source had told SaharaReporters that Hussain’s family had kicked against the wedding but Idris insisted on marrying her despite being 44 years older than girl.
Idris will turn 61 on November 25, 2021.
“This is our late sister’s daughter by name Hussain; she’s just 16, not long that she clocked 16 years old but it’s very unfortunate that a lady called Amina was the one that linked or brought the Accountant-General to our house in order to seek her hand in marriage.
“This, she did, knowing that this is a very young girl, what does that mean? It shows the Accountant General is just after that small girl to take advantage of her youthful age.
“Immediately I heard, I messaged him because when I was working with the then Head of Service, I had the opportunity of having his contact when we met over a serious matter about the country. So I messaged him on WhatsApp regarding his wedding; I sent him my picture, that of my son, my late sister and the daughter, Hussain. He replied that it’s a small world which confirmed the wedding was true,” a top family source had confided in SaharaReporters.
“He went as far as bribing this girl with gold of over N200 million, iPhones, buying cars for her, giving her millions of naira – all to buy her attention. He started meeting different people that he wanted to know the girl’s family; he married the girl, just like that.
(SaharaReporters)