In a recent Leadership Podcast interview, Ali Baba revealed that he and his wife, Mary, had intended to have one more son, motivated by Mary’s yearning for another child after their children left to study overseas.
The couple explored adoption but ultimately decided to undergo in vitro Fertilization (IVF) to fertilize two eggs.
However, fate had other intentions, and one egg split into two, resulting in triplets.
Ali Baba recounted Mary’s convincing argument that affected his decision. He said:
“Madam had always wanted to have a son. She had two daughters and we talked about it.
“So, I told her I didn’t want to be having school runs, joining Wizkid and attending PTA meetings. One truth is the nest becomes empty when all the children have to go abroad to study and the discussion comes up again.
“By the way, she had wanted to adopt two or three children to take care of them. One day, she then said instead of adopting, let’s just have our own. I was like, OK, but the way the economy is and she replied, ‘you said the economy is bad,’ I said yes and she said, have you stopped paying house rent for people? I said no. She asked again, “Have you stopped paying school fees?” and I said no.
“She said if you think about it, the reason why God put you in this position might be more than taking care of yourself. So I said okay, let’s do one and she now said if we do one you know that IVF fails so let’s do two,” he continued.
“So, I said, let’s do two and then one of the eggs split into two and that was how it became three. When it became three, she and the doctor knew that it had become three, but they didn’t want to tell me. So they were like sometimes when God wants to bless you, you don’t know how he wants to bless you, he will just do it.
“She said the eggs split into two and I said it was two we were looking for and she said it is now three. Then we have three boys.”
Ali Baba married his heartthrob Mary in 2006.
