Love and marriage and marriage and marriage and...

I've never been married. I'd like to meet a nice girl and settle down someday, the operative part of that phrase being a nice girl. That's apparently not enough for this guy, not by a longshot:

A Nigerian court has granted temporary reprieve to an 84-year-old Muslim preacher with 86 wives after local leaders threatened to force him to leave the area unless he divorced all but four of them.

Mohammed Bello launched a legal challenge after local chiefs and Muslim leaders in Bida, a town in central Niger state where he lives with his wives and some 170 children, gave him until Sept 7 to comply with Islamic sharia law, which allows a man to have no more than four wives at a time.

The Islamic preacher said in his petition that the threats violated his right to life and personal liberty.

"Leave is hereby granted to the applicant to enforce his fundamental human right to personal liberty, life and to freedom of movement," state news agency NAN quoted Abuja High Court judge G. Kolawole as saying.

The ruling gives Bello temporary protection from banishment while the court decides whether his rights have indeed been violated. The judge adjourned the case to September 18.

The dude isn't done, either. His spokesman said that he plans on marrying more women. Some people just have a lot of love to give. Or are crazy old serial polygamists. Six of one, half dozen of the other, I guess.