Banky W, an actor and musician, has reduced his wife Adesua Etomi’s status to baby mama in response to reports that marriages at the Ikoyi marriage registry are illegal and void.
Banky W has joined many who have reacted to news of the court’s ruling that marriages performed at the Ikoyi Marriage Registry are illegal and illegitimate.
A legal battle rages between Nigeria’s local governments and the federal government about who has the authority to maintain a marriage registry, conduct marriages, and issue marriage certificates.
The Federal High Court in Ikoyi granted the Eti Osa local government’s pleas, stating that it is statutorily the work of local governments as specified by law, and only local governments have the right to do so, and the acts of the federal government through the ministry of interior managing marriage registrations are plainly beyond their powers, making all marriages done by federal marriage registry or through its agents illegal and invalid.
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The news that marriages at the Ikoyi marriage register were illegal and invalid went viral yesterday, and it impacted a lot of people hard because most individuals made their marriage legitimate there and had been married for years with children.
Banky W reacting to that brought a little humour in the whole thing to take away the sadness and seriousness of some people.
The singer who was legally joined by the Ikoyi marriage registry to the love of his life, Adesua Etomi, in 2017, took to Twitter to refer to his wife as a baby mama.
