Secrets my wife kept from me, by IBB Secrets my wife kept from me, by IBB

Former President Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida has revealed what he described as secrets that his late wife, Maryam, kept from him up to the time she died but which he had only recently discovered.
Maryam died on December 27, last year at the age of 61 while undergoing treatment for terminal cancer at the Johnson Comprehensive Cancer Centre of the University of California, Los Angeles, United States of America.
In a recorded interview which he granted on the Hausa services of international broadcast organisations, including BBC, VOA and Radio France International, in his Minna country home Thursday night, which was made available to Peoples Daily Weekend yesterday at the Presidential Villa in Abuja, Babangida said one of the secrets was that his late wife converted 5,000 people in her village to Islam. Late Mrs. Maryam Babangida
Mrs. Maryam Babangida who hailed from Asaba in Delta state, was herself converted from Christianity to Islam after she had married Babangida. According to her husband, she built mosques, schools, boreholes and provided other social services in many communities across the country without making any noise about them.
“Recently, 120 school children aged 10 and above whom my late wife took care of, including their education were brought to me and I was surprised about it,” the former president said.
He continued: “What she did that impressed me the most was her attempt to convert an 87-year-old man. However, the man told her that he was too old to abandon his ancestral religion but offered to allow his children and grand-children, numbering 52, to convert to Islam.”
On whether he would remarry, the former president said that as a Muslim he would have to marry again but would not say when. He said the same question was asked recently put to him and soon after he received a text message from an unknown lady who said that she was prepared to be his wife any time he decided to remarry.
The lady, he said, told him that she knew how to take good care of an old man like him.