NGOZI OKORIE
POPULAR Nigerian businessman, Ned Nwoko, has said his youngest and sixth wife, Nollywood’s Regina Daniels, knows he can marry another wife.
Nwoko, who is about 40 years older than the 20-year-old movie star, also disclosed that, like his other wives, he got married to Regina within three weeks of meeting her.
Linking his ‘many women’ lifestyle to his polygamous background, the billionaire businessman said he did not believe in dating women before getting married to them.
“When you marry them, you begin to fall in love in marriage,” he said.
He said these in an interview with BBC Igbo.
“Whether I marry another wife or not; she (Regina) knows it can happen. I come from a very polygamous environment. I love children, so I want more children. She knows this and my other wives know it. We will see what happens in the future,” Nwoko said.
Recall that Regina, mother of one, had disputed a story of her husband marrying another wife on Instagram, saying the lady in the middle of the rumour was her friend.
Recalling how he met his youngest house, Nwoko said, “I met her and I liked her. We got married within three weeks. I married all my wives within the same period. I don’t believe in dating anybody before marrying them. You don’t have to date anybody you want to marry. When you marry them, you will begin to fall in love within the marriage.
“Even in my culture, as a kid in the 60s, people did not date. They arranged marriages between families and they choose a wife. Most girls were expected to be virgins when they get married and they build a family from there.”
“For myself and Regina, it is an interesting story. Before I met her, I did not know about her. I never watched movies. I met her the first time when she came to my house with her mother and her siblings. My house in Delta is a tourist place. They came to look around and I liked her and that was it,” he said.
