Aisha Buhari, the wife of the late former President Muhammadu Buhari, has revealed that her husband became increasingly cautious and withdrawn after rumours circulated within the Aso Rock environment suggesting she wanted to kill him.
According to the former First Lady, the gossip affected Buhari deeply, leading him to change some of his daily habits, including locking his room for fear of being harmed.
Aisha shared the revelation in a newly released 600-page biography titled From Soldier to Statesman: The Legacy of Muhammadu Buhari, where she detailed her personal experiences managing the former president’s health while in office.
She dismissed claims that Buhari’s widely discussed 2017 medical crisis was the result of poisoning or a mysterious illness. Instead, she explained that the health challenge stemmed from a disruption in his long-established feeding routine and poor management of his nutritional needs.
Aisha said she had personally overseen her husband’s meals and supplements for years, ensuring they were taken at specific times, a regimen she said helped keep him stable and healthy. However, that routine was broken after they moved from Kaduna to the Presidential Villa in Abuja.
The book notes that Buhari’s health challenges began when that structure was lost, rather than from any sinister cause, countering persistent speculation that surrounded his illness at the time.
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