Aside from being the second elected vice-president of Nigeria, not many can say too much about the private life of Atiku Abubakar.

The 69-year-old politician worked in the Nigeria Customs Service for twenty years, rising to become the deputy director, before he finally retired in April 1989 to face politics full time.

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However, aside from all these 'butterflies' about the Ahmadu Bello University graduate, not many know what his home front looks like. According to reports, he has 26 children from his five wives. In the book titled ‘Atiku – The Story Of Atiku Abubakar’, the former vice president explains why he opted for polygamy as a young man. Atiku said: “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.

Atiku Abubakar married Amina Titi Atiku Abubakar at the young age of 25 secretly in December 1971, at the Ikoyi registry in Lagos, because her family was initially opposed to the union.

In January 1979 he married Ladi Atiku Abubakar. He married his third wife, Princess Rukaiyatu Atiku Abubakar, daughter of the late Lamido of Adamawa in 1983. He married Fatima Atiku Abubakar his fourth wife in 1986. He later divorced Ladi, allowing him to marry, as his fourth wife, Jennifer Iwenjora, who then became Jamila Atiku-Abubakar.

The first wife gave birth to four children, Fatima, Adamu, Halima and Aminu while the second wife, Hajia Ladi has six children, Abba, Atiku, Zainab, Ummi, Mariam and Rukayatu. The third wife, Princess Rukaiyat (current Lamido Adamawa’s 13th child) had seven children, Aisha, Hadiza, Aliyu, Asmau, Mustafa, Laila and Abdulsalaam. Hajia Fatima has six children, Amina, Mohammed and two sets of twins, Ahmed and Shehu andAisha and Zainab. And Hajia Jamila has three children, Abdulmalik, Zahra and Faisal.

Just recently, the All Progressives Congress (APC) politician and businessman gave out three of his daughters in marriage on the same day.

It is allowed... if and only if he's able to take good care of all e'm them

Atiku takes good care of all his children. He's a kind of father every child would want to have.

He would make us live a better and prosperous life.

Atiku, the hope of the common man

26 and still counting. Tuface dey learn work for where Baba dey.

causing over population and environmental congestion!!!

Atiku My nigga.......

This is a complete football team.
Atiku, I hail you.

If you truly want to expand the family name, then I think four wives with 26 children isnt enof.
you have not started.

If this one comes in as President Nigeria will be finished. Loot loot loot will be his agenda. Before 27 children and wives will loot finish, we will be crying for buhari to come back with his recession.

Oga, abeg dey your house o. We no need you at all.

Wow! This is one thing I look up to at Turaki. I love to have a lot of kids, that's why am seriously considering polygamy.

One BLOKOS?

"Kimo LADI. Irannu ATIKU"!

Northerners and quantity. There is nothing like quality in their own dictionary.

He made good money from the Nigerian custom service.

26 ? well , he's a gentleman and very attractive though every woman will like to ............

Annie939:
26 ? well , he's a gentleman and very attractive though every woman will like to ............

Like To have a share in his loot right?

Moreoffaith:

Like To have a share in his loot right?

yes .

Baba I hail ooo
26 kids...

He has given birth to the whole of Nigeria (cow oriented man)