A Nigerian identified as Ibrahim Arifu Garba has stirred a lot of reaction online after he said that Northerners are getting married to their cousins.

Arifu Garba who is also a lawyer took to his Twitter Page to make the shocking revelation, saying that “my Dad and my Wife’s Dad are full brothers”, he revealed jokingly on Twitter.

He tweeted;

“So our Southern brothers were shocked when they knew Northerners marry their Cousins? Well here is my weird combination; My Dad and my Wife’s Dad are full brothers. My Mum and my Wife’s Mum are full Sisters. Both our Dads and Mums are Cousins. That makes us Cousin pro max”, his tweet reads.

His tweet stirred a lot of reactions from citizens as some insinuated that they are just hearing it for the first time.