Nigerian man to divorce 82 wives

[ana-mish-ana]

A Nigerian religious leader with 86 wives has accepted an Islamic decree ordering him to divorce all but four of them, local authorities say.
A spokesman for the emir of Bida told the BBC that Mohammadu Bello Abubakar, 84, agreed on Saturday to comply with the decree.
Last week one of Nigeria's top Islamic bodies, the Jamatu Nasril Islam, sentenced him to death.
The sentence was lifted but he was threatened with eviction from his home.
Earlier, Mr Abubakar had challenged Islamic scholars, saying there was no punishment stated in the Koran for having more than four wives.
"I have not contravened any established law that would warrant my being banished from the land... There is no law that says one must not marry more than four wives," the AFP news agency reported him as saying.

"All my wives are with children and some of these are people I have married and stayed with for over 30 years. How can they expect me to leave them within two days?" he reportedly told local newspapers.
The former teacher and Islamic preacher lives in Niger State with his wives and at least 170 children.
Niger is one of the Muslim majority states to have reintroduced Sharia punishments since 2000.
Several people have been sentenced to death for adultery by Sharia courts but none of these sentences have been carried out.

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OMG 170 children and 85 wives- The man has his own village

[MrsDark]

So....he's keeping four? I wonder who the lucky ladies are gonna be.

[ana-mish-ana]

Perhaps a lottery?

Or if they were that desperate thumb wrestling tournament

[McJag]

I don't know how he did this on a teachers salary.

[mamaste]

That's a lot of alimony and child support payments.

[yoyoma]

Originally Posted by mamaste

That's a lot of alimony and child support payments.

I don't think that applies...maybe that's why they end up doing stuff like this,
because they know they can get away with it...

The Qur'an doesn't even say that you can have up to four wives...

[KandyKorn]

I guess he's Nigeria's Warren Jeffs.

[AliceInWonderland]

maybe he's gay.

oh and um p.s. that shit is not good for the local population! there's a reason we have diversity and this leads to inbreeding.

[ana-mish-ana]

Originally Posted by yoyoma

I don't think that applies...maybe that's why they end up doing stuff like this,
because they know they can get away with it...

The Qur'an doesn't even say that you can have up to four wives...

No according to Sharia law and this is in the Qur'an as well I think- the husband has to pay each wife alimony according to how many years they have been married and if they have kids.

I think the prophet Muhammad married more than 4 wives in his lifetime but it was argued that he only did so to protect widows and their kids.

[Quazar]

Why would anyone want 86 wives??????

[azoria]

I read that article on BBC news yesterday. The guy looks great too, I would never have guessed him to be 84 years old from the pic.

More to the story too, he has "at least" 170 children!

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[middleground]

Oh please! To him they're not wives, they're receptacles!