Aug 082008

Meet Bello Abubakar.

Mr. Abubakar is 84 years old, lives in Lagos, Nigeria and has 86 wives. From BBC.

“A man with 10 wives would collapse and die, but my own power is given by Allah. That is why I have been able to control 86 of them,”

No MySpace, no Facebook, Bello finds all of his wives through word of mouth. Word of mouth and word of God.

“As soon as I met him the headache was gone,” says Sharifat Bello Abubakar, who was 25 at the time and Mr Bello Abubakar 74.
“God told me it was time to be his wife. Praise be to God I am his wife now.”

Ganiat Mohammed Bello has been married to the man everyone calls “Baba” for 20 years.
When she was in secondary school her mother took her for a consultation with Mr Bello Abubakar and he proposed afterwards.
“I said I couldn’t marry an older man, but he said it was directly an order from God,” she says.
“I am now the happiest woman on earth. When you marry a man with 86 wives you know he knows how to look after them,” she said.

And good news ladies, he’s available.

“I don’t go looking for them, they come to me. I will consider the fact that God has asked me to do it and I will just marry them.”