Safinah Omotolani, a Nigerian woman, disclosed that her father wed a different woman just weeks after she was born. 

She made this revelation in response to an X user’s assertion that Yoruba men are less v!0lent than their peers when it comes to polygamy.

The X user made this claim after Scholar, a Nigerian businessman, married a second wife one week after his first wife gave birth to a set of twins and nine months after he first married her.

“Dey play. My dad married another wife just weeks after I was born — his first child. (the woman was present at my naming ceremony) Imagine a woman was still bleeding, still healing, still learning how to be a mother and her husband was already moving on,” Safinah wrote.

“That pain didn’t end that day. It lived with us. Big shoutout to my mum. A woman who buried her dreams, swallowed her tears, and stayed for her child. And to the men who see nothing wrong in this kind of cruelty, who lack empathy and call it “Sunnah” e mura si. May life teach you empathy the hard way.”