You Don’t Have Resort To Wickedness To Make Your Wife Respect Your Mum – Aisha Yesufu

Popular Nigerian activist, Aisha Yesufu has come out to say that her future daughter-in-law has the right to retaliate if she ever slaps her.

She recently revealed this as a response to a man named Kene, who threatened to send his wife to mortuary or into coma if his mother slaps her and she retaliates by slapping back.

Reacting, Aisha wrote that people must know that marriage does not give anyone the right to be wicked to their spouse, so no man should resort to threats just to make sure his wife respects his mother.

Her words, “I am old enough to be a mother-in-law and I have a son that can marry this minute if he so wish so I am more than qualified to speak on this issue. If I should slap my daughter-in-law or potential one, she MUST ensure she gives me back double and walk away if my son supports nonsense What the hell do you people think marriage confer on you? The right to be evil and wicked?”

WOW.

Aisha Somtochukwu Yesufu (born 12 December 1973), is a Nigerian activist and businesswoman. She co-founded the #BringBackOurGirls movement, which brought attention to the abduction of over 200 girls from a secondary school in Chibok, Nigeria on the 14th of April, 2014, by the terrorist group Boko Haram. She has also been prominently involved in the End SARS movement against police brutality in Nigeria.

Aisha Somtochukwu Yesufu was born and raised in Kano State, and is from Agbede in Edo State. She experienced the difficulties of being a girl in a heavily patriarchal environment. She has said that by the time she was 11 years old, she didn’t have any female friends because they had all been married or died in childbirth, and that by the time she married at 24, most of her friends were nearly grandmothers. She says her love of books helped her during childhood, and reading made her realise “there was a world beyond the ghetto that I was growing up in … and I wanted that life”.

She applied to the Nigerian Defence Academy in 1991, but was rejected because she was a woman. She was initially admitted to Usmanu Danfodiyo University in 1992, but after the school closed she enrolled at Ahmadu Bello University to study medicine. Yesufu left Ahmadu Bello University after the school was also closed, following the killing of a professor in 1994. She completed her education at Bayero University Kano, from which she graduated with a degree in microbiology.