{"id":4155,"date":"2015-02-01T15:42:55","date_gmt":"2015-02-01T15:42:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=4155"},"modified":"2015-02-01T15:42:55","modified_gmt":"2015-02-01T15:42:55","slug":"ibb-explains-why-he-has-not-remarried-5-years-after-losing-his-wife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=4155","title":{"rendered":"IBB explains why he has not remarried 5 years after losing his wife"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Babaginda.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4156\" alt=\"Babaginda\" src=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Babaginda.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"208\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After 40 years of marriage, former Head of State, Ibrahim Babangida lost his wife and mother of his four children, Maryam Babaginda, to ovarian cancer on 27th December 2009 in an LA hospital. She was just 61. It&#8217;s been five years and IBB, now 73, hasn&#8217;t made an attempt to re-marry. He spoke to Vanguard about why he hasn&#8217;t tried to re-marry<\/p>\n<p>On what life has been like without her:<br \/>\nShe was a real companion who got to understand and accept me for what I am and tried to make the best of me and that is what I am missing. She was the one who would look at me and say \u2018you\u2019re wrong\u2019 and I had to accept and bury my pride and I will say \u2018sorry, you\u2019re right\u2019. That is the sort of counseling I am missing now.<\/p>\n<p>On why he hasn&#8217;t remarried<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I will tell you an interesting story. There was a woman I was joking with and I said, \u2018Okay, why don\u2019t you marry me?\u2019 and she said, \u2018No I won\u2019t\u2019. And I asked her why? She said, \u2018I am not sure I can spoil you the way your wife used to spoil you; so don\u2019t put any idea into my head\u2019.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After 40 years of marriage, former Head of State, Ibrahim Babangida lost his wife and mother of his four children, Maryam Babaginda, to ovarian cancer on 27th December 2009 in an LA hospital. She was just 61. It&#8217;s been five years and IBB, now 73, hasn&#8217;t made an attempt to re-marry. He spoke to Vanguard [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4156,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-society"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Babaginda.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4oswh-151","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4155"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4157,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4155\/revisions\/4157"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}