Reason i Married Five Wives :— Fried Yam seller

Reason i Married Five Wives :— Fried Yam seller

Ibrahim Yahaya, a 45-year-old Kano native who sells fried yam and chicken in Effurun, Delta State, has shared his unusual reasoning for marrying multiple wives and lamented the current economic hardship in Nigeria.

The father of nine, who left Kano two years ago to “hustle,” revealed he married five wives because relying on just one woman was too risky for his heart:

I have five wives and I have nine children—four girls and five boys… There is no need to marry just one wife. If you have one wife, she can cheat on you and break your heart, so I decided to have five of them.”

Yahaya lamented the soaring cost of living, explicitly comparing the current administration to its predecessor:

“Nigeria was far better when Buhari was the president than now that Tinubu is the president.”

He provided stark figures detailing how his business profitability has been destroyed:

“When Buhari was in power, the fried chicken that I sell for N500 now was sold for N100 and N200,” he lamented.

He also detailed the crushing increase in the cost of his main ingredient:

“The yam that was N3000 to N5000 during Buhari time, is now N10,000 to N15,000,” he explained.

Despite the struggle, he affirmed the commitment of hustlers to survive:

“We can’t stop hustling because we don’t want to go hungry, that is why we are still managing things the way we see them.”

He concluded by warning the government:

“The government should do something before people start falling down on the streets due to hunger and high cost of living.”