Former First Lady Aisha Buhari has made a stunning personal and political revelation, detailing how her late husband, President Muhammadu Buhari, began “locking his room” following gossip that she planned to kill him. She also claimed that the health crisis that forced him to take 154 days of medical leave in 2017 began with a complete breakdown of his established nutritional routine.
Her account is revealed in the new 600-page biography, ’From Soldier to Statesman: The Legacy of Muhammadu Buhari’, authored by Dr. Charles Omole, which was launched at the State House on Monday.
Loss of Routine as the ‘Genesis of the Crisis’
The ex-First Lady debunks claims of a mysterious ailment or poisoning, contending that the health crisis originated from the loss of the strict nutritional routine she had long supervised.
She recalled that, before moving into Aso Villa, she had maintained a specific regimen of meals and supplements to help the then-70-year-old President maintain strength, noting that “Elderly bodies require gentle, consistent support.”
The book 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.”
The Gossip and The Lockdown
The former First Lady stated that this necessary routine was broken due to fearmongering and malicious gossip within Aso Rock.
“Then came the gossip and the fearmongering. They said I wanted to k!ll him,” the book quotes her as saying.
She revealed the shocking consequence: “My husband believed them for a week or so,” and began locking his room and changing small habits. Crucially, she said “meals were delayed or missed; the supplements were stopped,” leading to a full year where he did not have lunch, and his condition rapidly deteriorated.
This deterioration culminated in Buhari’s two extended medical trips to the United Kingdom in 2017.
The London Turnaround
The book details that in London, doctors prescribed an even stronger regimen of supplements, which Buhari was initially “frightened and not taking as prescribed.”
Aisha Buhari took charge, secretly slipping hospital-issued supplements into his juice and oats. She described the turnaround as swift:
“After just three days, he threw away the stick he was walking with. After a week, he was receiving relatives.” “‘That,’ she says, ‘was the genesis, and also the reversal of his sickness,’” the book states.
The biography chronicles Buhari’s life until his final hours in a London hospital in mid-July 2025 and confirms that his absences ensured “institutional propriety” by handing power to Vice President Yemi Osinbajo.
Source: ladunliadinews
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