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Nigerians will not forget in a hurry how the personable former First Lady and founder of the Better Life for Rural Women project, Dr. Maryam Babangida died on Sunday, December 27, 2009. The beautiful Delta State-born ex-First Lady succumbed to ovarian cancer at the University of California’s Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, Los Angeles, aged 61.
In an interview with The Sun, General Babangida, who was at his wife’s bed side when her life ebbed, noted that he is ready to give marriage another chance.
Asked about how he feels ten years after her demise, Babangida said: “It hasn’t been easy, I must say. But thanks be to God. Her children and my friends try to take away that burden off me and they have been very successful so far.
On his plans to remarry, the General said: “It will still be in the affirmative. The answer is yes. This is because I am still thinking.I’m searching and I’m hoping. But the longer I wait, maybe, the more problematic it becomes. If it drags, I would be too old and the whole idea of having a partner would seem to diminish. But I will make sure I do it before reaching that stage.If somebody is in the corner, you could organize that in three or six months. And because it must be somebody you have known for a long time, or somebody you have been in contact with for a long time, you don’t just tell them look this is for marriage. But as time passes, and relationship building continues, it could end up in marriage.
“However, I have to be fair in my search. I really want to be fair. For instance, you don’t expect me to take a wife much younger than I am because that will be a problem for her and for me. I have to be fair. Secondly, I do wonder if she (the chosen one) would be able to live the way Maryam and I did, which is not easy these days. So, I keep on praying; and I think it will happen”.