Baba Masaba: Nigerian man with 86 wives dies aged 93

A former Muslim preacher in Nigeria who had at least 86 wives has died
aged 93.

Mohammed Bello Abubakar, known as Baba Masaba, died at his
home in central Niger state on Saturday after an undisclosed
illness.

A large crowd attended his funeral on Sunday.

According to the ERICGOSSIP,while he had 86 wives in 2008 - when he
 was at the centre of media attention - the number had risen to 130 at
 the time of his death.

Some of them were pregnant, it reported.


Ericgossip found out that in 2008  Mr Abubakar had at 
least 170 children, but the total records of children he left behind 203 children.

One of the wives spoke that  in 2008  they met Mr Abubakar
when they went to him to seek help for illnesses, which they say he cured.

"I don't go looking for them, he said they come to me. I will consider the fact that God has asked me to do it and I 
will just marry them," he said.

Ganiat Mohammed Bello, who had been married to him for 
20 years when she spoke to the ERIC GOSSIP, said she 
met him when she was in secondary school and her
 mother took her for a consultation with him. He 
proposed afterwards, she said.

"I said I couldn't marry an older man, but he said it was 
directly an order from God," she said.

Such claims alienated the Islamic authorities in Nigeria, 
who had branded his family in  cult.