Getting stressed about your divorce? Spare a thought for Baba Mohammed Bello Abubakar of Nigeria. The 84-year-old man is having to divorce 82 of his 86 wives because he received death threats from religious extremists.

According to him, his marrying more than 4 wives isn’t against anything written in the Koran, but just to be on the safe side he has decided to give up 82 of his wives. I wonder how he chooses which ones to divorce. Maybe an X-Factor style round of auditions where he grades them on all aspects of being a wife?

However he chooses which wives to divorce, he’d better hope there’s no Nigerian version of the CSA because they’d take him to the cleaners for his 170 children.

Obviously he’s angry at having to divorce 82 of his wives, and doesn’t believe it necessary:

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.

It does make you wonder what his house is like, and more importantly what’s the queue for the bathroom like in the morning?

Clive Bellmore