A one-time Muslim preacher inwards Nigeria who had over 100 wives has died, aged 93.
Mohammed Bello Abubakar, known every bit Baba Masaba, died at his habitation inwards key Niger dry reason on Sat after an undisclosed illness.
A large crowd attended his funeral on Sunday.
Nigeria's Daily Trust paper reported that acre he had 86 wives inwards 2008 - when he was at the nub of media attending - the bring out had risen to 130 at the fourth dimension of his death.
Some of them were pregnant, it reported.
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The BBC reported inwards 2008 that Mr Abubakar had at to the lowest degree 170 children, but the Daily Trust said that he left behind 203 children.
The wives the BBC spoke to inwards 2008 said they met Mr Abubakar when they went to him to essay assist for diverse illnesses, which they nation he cured.
"I don't become looking for them, they come upward to me. I volition consider the fact that God has asked me to produce it as well as I volition but get hitched amongst them," Baba Masaba said.
Ganiat Mohammed Bello, who had been married to him for xx years when she spoke to the BBC inwards 2008, said she met him when she was inwards secondary schoolhouse as well as her woman rear took her for a consultation amongst him.
He proposed afterwards, she said.
"I said I couldn't get hitched amongst an older man, but he said it was straight an companionship from God," she said.
Such claims alienated the Islamic government inwards Nigeria, who had branded his household unit of measurement a cult. Sumber http://www.dnbstories.com/