Kenyans may soon get three First Ladies should the youngest presidential candidate win.

Mr Mohammed Abduba Dida, the 39-year-old former teacher at Lenana School has three wives and 11 children. When he gets to State House, he says, all his wives will bear the title “First Lady”.

“They will all become First Ladies by virtue of being married to the same man, unless the Constitution has something else,” said Mr Dida in an interview with the Nation.

Mr Dida added that he had no problem managing his family time, because, he has everything planned. “As a Muslim I’m entitled to marry four (wives), but I’m married to three. One is Amina, a banker, the other, Estail, works with the World Health Organisation and there’s Rukia who is a housewife,” said the presidential candidate for the Alliance for Real Change. They say, many hands make light work easier, and Mr Dida can testify that having a polygamous marriage has made the exhausting campaigns more bearable.

“One of my wives takes care of the family finance, one takes care of secretarial work in these campaigns, and one takes care of the children,” he added. That division of labour has helped him plan his campaigns. Together with his three wives, discuss how the spending of the family income is shared.

Also, he gets to choose the wife to accompany him to different parts of the country.

Mr Dida, who comes from Wajir County, picks Rukia when he’s going to North Eastern, because “she’s very good in Kisomali”. When his campaign heads to the cosmopolitan towns, his choice is Estail “who originates from Kajiado and is good in English”, and then he has to pick Amina if he’s going to a place where there’s a lot of politics do be done in Kiswahili.

“All of them are educated, but they have traits that fit certain counties that I go to. At times we all go,” said Mr Dida.

If he becomes Head of State, he will not use that criteria to travel, but he might end up having all his wives in an overseas visit. “You know how ladies are jealous when it comes to sharing the husband, but I coordinate it very well. At a certain time you are in one house. If I’m travelling today and I’m supposed to be in house number A, I go with wife number A because that is her time,” Mr Dida said. But he said such tricky matters, like everything in his home, is usually up for discussion. “We are all educated people, we sit down and discuss,” said Mr Dida.

With the eldest child aged 15 and the youngest six, he will need someone to sit at home to watch over the children. Should he meet South Africa’s Jacob Zuma, they will be able to compare notes. When you sit down with Mr Dida, you get the sense that he has many things on his mind, a lot of plans, and he wants a platform to achieve his dreams.

The masters student at the University of Nairobi has his mind wandering from religion to philosophy, then back to his favourite topic of “inter-faith relations and humanity”.

Hunting and gathering. He still can’t come to terms with the fact that the Senye and Boni communities in Kenya are still hunting and gathering in an age when some people have no idea how a hoe looks like. While many of the other presidential candidates have changed their lifestyle and can only be home for a little family time, Mr Dida lives his life the same way he used to before he got the nod from the IEBC.

The man has a two-hour nap every day, and six hours of sleep at night. “I must rest very well,” he said. The remaining 16 hours are spent in the campaigns, reading books about Mahatma Gandhi and non-violent campaigns, and the revolutionary life of German student Sophia Magdalena Scholl.

He reads the Quran, the Bible and learns Arabic. He also sneaks in an hour for the gym.

And he gets a few hours to go out to know his neighbours. “It is not good to live next to a person and you even don’t say hi,” Mr Dida said.

The fellow has a revolutionary mind, not the kind you get from a typical Kenyan politician. He is obsessed with the struggles around the world to fight imperialism.

He believes the world can be a better place and wants to be President to make Kenya better. He believes in his dreams; even as some appear naïve about the way the world works.