Peller and Jarvis. Photo credit: Instagram/Peller
A Nigerian lawyer, Waliu Taofik, has weighed in on the legal implications of the recent court wedding between popular content creator, Habeeb Hamzat, popularly known as Peller, and his partner, Amadou Elizabeth Aminata, also known as Jarvis, amid online debates about divorce, property sharing and polygamy.
The lawyer’s comments came after videos of the couple’s civil wedding surfaced online on Wednesday, sparking conversations about whether Peller, a Muslim, could legally marry another woman despite contracting a statutory marriage.
In a post on his X handle on Thursday, Taofik argued that under Nigerian law, a Muslim man who contracted a marriage under the Marriage Act could still marry another Muslim woman under Islamic law.
“Peller, I am pleased to inform you that as a Muslim man that married under the Act, you’re allowed under the law to get married to another woman (a Muslim woman) under Islamic law (Nikkah). So, the so-called ‘registry’ or ‘court’ marriage does not affect Muslim men,” he wrote.
