By JUMI RHODES





Nigeria's former vice-president Alhaji Atiku Abubakar has revealed why he married more than 1 wife. He married Amina Titi Atiku Abubakar, Ladi Atiku Abubakar, Princess Rukaiya Atiku Abubakar, Fati Atiku Abubakar, and Jamila Atiku Abubakar. Atiku Abubakar's children{in no particular order} include Shehu, Mohammed, Ahmed, Adamu, Aminu, Halima, Fatima, Rukaiya, Walida, Mustapha, Jamila, Lamido, Asmau, Laila, Mustapha, Aisha, Zara, Faisal, Abdul Malik, Amina, Ama, Zainab, Abba, Hauwa, Atiku, Maryam.





It is worthy of note that Atiku Abubakar married at a young age and met his first wife Titi in Lagos when he worked at Idi Iroko, Ogun State as a customs officer in the late-1960s. In December 1971, Titi and Atiku married at the Ikoyi Registry when he was 25 years old. Atiku married other women after Titi.



In the book titled 'Atiku - The Story Of Atiku Abubakar', the ex-VP tells author Onukaba Ojo why he opted for polygamy as a young man. Atiku said he chose this path because he "wanted a large family to compensate for his lonely childhood as he had been born a lone child to a father who was himself a lone child and to a mother and two sisters who had no other child besides him".





In his words, “I wanted to expand the Abubakar family. I felt extremely lonely as a child. I had no brother and no sister. I did not want my children to be as lonely as I was. This is why I married more than one wife. My wives are my brothers, my sisters, my friends and my advisers and they complement one another”.



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There's no reason,u are a muslim.

But with one wife you can produce up to 10 children if you like.
Anyway, na your choice.

It's one thing having a big family and another taking care of them properly and avoiding the kind of negative scandals we are seeing from some families that are not even as large as yours.
Your are really a real father and has trained your children well, that I give to you.
We have seen the the Lamido's and most recently the Audu's.
Keep it up.