Late President Buhari’s Wife Aisha has revealed that her late husband , Muhammadu Buhari, started locking his room, following rumour spread by their relatives in Aso Rock that she planned to poison and kill him.
This was contained in a newly launched 600-page biography of the late President titled, “From Soldier to Statesman: The legacy of Muhammadu Buhari,” written by Dr. Charles Imole.
The book was launched at the State house on Monday Dec 15th by President Bola Tinubu.
The book narrated Buhari’s early life in Daura, Katsina State, until his final hours in a London hospital in mid July 2025.
According to the book, Aisha Buhari had long handled her husband’s meals and supplements at specific hours, an exercise she said, had helped a slender man with a long history of malnutrition symptoms maintain strength.
Elderly bodies require gentle, consistent support,” she recalled, adding: “He doesn’t have a chronic illness. Keep him on schedule.”
A part in the book reads: “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.”
Aisha had called a meeting with close staff, including the physician , Suhayb Rafindadi, CSO, Bashir Abubakar, housekeeper and SSG DG to explain the plan.
According to Omole, she said;
“Daily, cups, and bowls with tailored vitamins powders and oils, a touch of protein here, a change of cereal there , elderly bodies require gentle , consistent support”.
However, the routine soon faded out
Then came the gossip and the fear mongering , They said I wanted to kill him”, the book quoted her as saying .
She revealed that the late President began locking his room,changed small habits, and crucially, meals were delayed or missed, the supplements were stopped and for a year, he did not have lunch as they mismanaged his meals.
The decline in his feeding regimen resulted to Buhari’s two extended medical trips to the United Kingdom totalling 154 days in 2017
