The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that a legal practitioner, Mr Johnson Ekundayo, based in Ilorin has warned that the campaign for gender equality could become a threat to marriage in Nigeria, if not handled properly.

Ekundayo, who made the remark in an interview with NAN on Thursday, January 23rd, 2020 in Ilorin, added that such campaign has the potential to ignite domestic violence in most marriages.

According to him, a call for gender equality was a potential threat to marriages as some women will see such as a platform to compete with their husbands in various respects.

Gender equality would be wrongly interpreted by some women as equal right with their husbands or spouses, and this will ultimately lead to marital crisis.

I do not see anything bad in gender equality, but it poses a threat to the future of marriages in Nigeria, because our present generation may wrongly interpret the word `equality’.

I don’t hate gender equality. It is good for development of the country but not to be extended to matrimonial union,

he said.

The legal practitioner also advised women to be submissive to their husbands by not dragging equal right in their marriage all in the name of gender equality.

He also called on husbands to love their wives and desist from discriminating against women and maltreating in general.

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