Buhari Believed Former First Lady Aisha Wanted To Kill Him

Aisha Buhari has revealed that her late husband, former President Muhammadu Buhari, distanced himself from her temporarily due to Aso Rock rumors alleging she intended to kill him.

The former First Lady revealed that President Muhammadu Buhari, her late husband, “began locking his room” after rumors circulated within Aso Rock suggesting she intended to harm him.

Aisha Buhari explained that the medical emergency requiring Buhari to spend 154 days on medical leave in 2017 stemmed from disrupted meal schedules and poor nutritional management.

This revelation appears in a newly released biography titled: “From Soldier to Statesman: The Legacy of Muhammadu Buhari,” written by Dr. Charles Omole and unveiled at the State House on Monday, December 15.

The biography traces Buhari’s journey from his childhood in Daura, Katsina State, through to his death at a London medical facility in mid-July 2025.

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The biography reveals that Aisha Buhari had previously managed her husband’s dietary intake and nutritional supplements according to a strict timetable, which she maintained helped “a slender man with a long history of malnutrition symptoms” stay healthy.

“Elderly bodies require gentle, consistent support,” she remembered, noting: “He doesn’t have a chronic illness. Keep him on schedule.”

One section of the biography states: “According to Aisha Buhari, her husband’s 2017 health crisis did not originate as a mysterious ailment or a covert plot.

It started, she says, with the loss of a routine; ‘my nutrition,’ she describes it, a pattern of meals and supplements she had long overseen in Kaduna before they moved into Aso Villa.”

The former First Lady convened a meeting with key personnel, including physician Suhayb Rafindadi, CSO Bashir Abubakar, the housekeeper, and the SSS Director General to outline her nutritional strategy.

According to Omole’s account, she explained: “Daily, cups and bowls with tailored vitamin powders and oils, a touch of protein here, a change to cereals there.

“When the Presidency’s machinery took over our private lives, she explained the plan: daily, at specific hours, cups and bowls with tailored vitamin powders and oil, a touch of protein here, a change to cereals there. Elderly bodies require gentle, consistent support.”

This careful regimen eventually broke down.

“Then came the gossip and the fear mongering. They said I wanted to k!ll him,” the biography quotes her statement.

“My husband believed them for a week or so,” she disclosed, noting that the President began locking his room, altered certain behaviors, and most significantly “meals were delayed or missed; the supplements were stopped.”

“For a year, he did not have lunch. They mismanaged his meals.”

This decline led to Buhari’s two prolonged medical visits to the United Kingdom, which together lasted 154 days in 2017, during which Vice President Yemi Osinbajo assumed presidential duties.

After returning, Buhari acknowledged being “never so ill” and confirmed receiving blood transfusions.