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By John Ogunsemore
Former First Lady Aisha Buhari said her husband, late former President Muhammadu Buhari, once believed Aso Rock gossip that she planned to kill him.
This, she said, made him begin to lock his room at the Villa.
Aisha Buhari’s account was captured in a new book, ’From Soldier to Statesman: The Legacy of Muhammadu Buhari’, authored by Dr. Charles Omole, launched at the State House on Monday.
The former First Lady pinned Buhari’s 2017 collapse squarely on mismanaged meals, not poison or mystery ailments.
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Pre-Villa, she oversaw supplements for his lifelong malnutrition: “He doesn’t have a chronic illness. At this age, you care for them like a child; immune systems are not the same.”
In a final meeting with his physician, SO, housekeeper, and SSS DG, she laid out the schedule: “daily, at specific hours, cups and bowls with tailored vitamin powders and oils.” But staff sowed doubt: “They said I wanted to kill him!”
Buhari believed it briefly, locking his room and ditching lunches.
“For a year, he did not have lunch,” she reveals. “He maintains a routine. They mismanaged his meals!”
London doctors prescribed stronger supplements, which she hid in oats and juice: “After just three days, he threw away the stick he was walking with. After a week, he was receiving relatives.” Her verdict: “That was the genesis, and also the reversal of his sickness. Straightforward. It was his nutrition. Badly managed.”
