Ali Baba defends polygamy, says marriage easier with space

Nigerian Atunyota Akpobome also known as Ali Baba, has defended his opinion on polygamy, adding that such arrangements are easier when the wives live in different houses.

While speaking on the Clarity Zone podcast, Ali Baba stressed the need for such arrangements, claiming it reduces tension in the home.

“It’s easier to marry women who don’t live in your house with you. Those ones don’t come to disturb the Iyale. This man has four wives, all four wives but one don’t work. The one that works is a medical doctor and she has a thriving business, makes good money, takes what she wants and gives the rest to Oga. Oga then distributes to the other ones. The man still adds his own to it, but everybody is okay,” he said.

While explaining the analogy, he added that women easily get jealous and claim there is preferential treatment when they all live under the same roof.

“Then one day the woman says, ‘Oh, my son wants to go to Canada, that’s where he wants to go to school.’ And the other women say, ‘My son is not going to Canada, your own is not going to Canada as well.’ So she calls the man and says, ‘I don’t understand what these people are saying, that my son will not go to Canada.’ She said ‘okay,’ then she stopped giving money to the man, and all the other women started fighting. Two left,” he added.