Buhari believed Aso Rock gossip I planned To Kill Him — Aisha
Former First Lady, Aisha Buhari, has revealed that her late husband, President Muhammadu Buhari once believed gossips in Aso Rock Presidential Villa that she (Aisha) planned to him and, “began locking his room” to stop her from carrying out the plans to kill him.
Former First Lady, Aisha Buhari, has revealed that her late husband, President Muhammadu Buhari once believed gossips in Aso Rock Presidential Villa that she (Aisha) planned to him and, “began locking his room” to stop her from carrying out the plans to kill him.
Aisha also claimed that Buhari's health crisis which forced him to take 154 days of medical leave in 2017 began with a broken feeding routine and mismanaged nutrition, adding that the former president's illness was not a mysterious ailment or poisoning.
She gave the account of Buhari's prolonged ill health in a new 600-page biography: “From Soldier to Statesman: The Legacy of Muhammadu Buhari,” written by Dr. Charles Omole and launched at the State House on Monday.
The book which has 22 chapters chronicled Buhari's early life in Daura, Katsina State, until his final hours in a London hospital in mid-July 2025.
According to Dr Omole , Aishai had supervised her husband’s meals and supplements at specific hours, a routine she said helped “a slender man with a long history of malnutrition symptoms” maintain his strength.
“Elderly bodies require gentle, consistent support,” she recalled, adding: “He doesn’t have a chronic illness. Keep him on schedule."
The book read in part, “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.”
She convened a meeting with close staff, including the physician, Suhayb Rafindadi; CSO, Bashir Abubakar; housekeeper; and DSS DG to explain the plan.
Omole further narrated: “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.”
However, the routine frayed. “Then came the gossip and the fear mongering. They said I wanted to kill him.
“My husband believed them for a week or so,” she said, revealing that the President began locking his room, changed small habits, and crucially “meals were delayed or missed; the supplements were stopped.
“For a year, he did not have lunch.
“They mismanaged his meals.”
The deterioration culminated in Buhari’s two extended medical trips to the United Kingdom, totalling 154 days in 2017, during which he ceded authority to Vice President Yemi Osinbajo.
Upon return, he admitted to being “never so ill” and having received blood transfusions.
She gave the account of Buhari's prolonged ill health in a new 600-page biography: “From Soldier to Statesman: The Legacy of Muhammadu Buhari,” written by Dr. Charles Omole and launched at the State House on Monday.
The book which has 22 chapters chronicled Buhari's early life in Daura, Katsina State, until his final hours in a London hospital in mid-July 2025.
According to Dr Omole , Aishai had supervised her husband’s meals and supplements at specific hours, a routine she said helped “a slender man with a long history of malnutrition symptoms” maintain his strength.
“Elderly bodies require gentle, consistent support,” she recalled, adding: “He doesn’t have a chronic illness. Keep him on schedule."
The book read in part, “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.”
She convened a meeting with close staff, including the physician, Suhayb Rafindadi; CSO, Bashir Abubakar; housekeeper; and DSS DG to explain the plan.
Omole further narrated: “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.”
However, the routine frayed. “Then came the gossip and the fear mongering. They said I wanted to kill him.
“My husband believed them for a week or so,” she said, revealing that the President began locking his room, changed small habits, and crucially “meals were delayed or missed; the supplements were stopped.
“For a year, he did not have lunch.
“They mismanaged his meals.”
The deterioration culminated in Buhari’s two extended medical trips to the United Kingdom, totalling 154 days in 2017, during which he ceded authority to Vice President Yemi Osinbajo.
Upon return, he admitted to being “never so ill” and having received blood transfusions.
Buhari’s absences “sparked rumours, speculation, and even conspiracy theories,” Omole further wrote.
Mrs. Buhari debunked stories of plots to poison her husband.
Her contention, Omole noted, is that “loss of a routine, ‘my nutrition,’ was the genesis of the crisis.”
In London, doctors prescribed an even stronger regimen of supplements, he explained.
Initially, Buhari “was frightened and not taking them as prescribed. So she took charge of his welfare, slipping hospital-issued supplements into his juice and oats,” it read.
The former First Lady described the turnaround as swift, noting: “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 stated.
According to Omole, critics said Buhari’s reliance on UK hospitals exposed the failure of Nigeria’s health system.
A “more compassionate perspective,” he wrote, recognises that a man in his 70s may require specialised care “not readily available in Nigeria” after “decades of underinvestment.”
He also noted Buhari’s habit of handing power to his deputy during absences, which, he said, ensured “institutional propriety, even during personal health crises.”
The book also revealed a climate of mistrust around the Presidency.
Mrs. Buhari alleged surveillance, the bugging of the President’s office with listening devices, and playback of private conversations, saying, fear and conscience “contributed to taking his life.”
She refuted the long-held rumour that Buhari had a body double, popularly known as “Jibril of Sudan,” as absurd, arguing that poor strategic communication in government allowed simple, banal developments to metastasise into conspiracies.
Mrs. Buhari debunked stories of plots to poison her husband.
Her contention, Omole noted, is that “loss of a routine, ‘my nutrition,’ was the genesis of the crisis.”
In London, doctors prescribed an even stronger regimen of supplements, he explained.
Initially, Buhari “was frightened and not taking them as prescribed. So she took charge of his welfare, slipping hospital-issued supplements into his juice and oats,” it read.
The former First Lady described the turnaround as swift, noting: “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 stated.
According to Omole, critics said Buhari’s reliance on UK hospitals exposed the failure of Nigeria’s health system.
A “more compassionate perspective,” he wrote, recognises that a man in his 70s may require specialised care “not readily available in Nigeria” after “decades of underinvestment.”
He also noted Buhari’s habit of handing power to his deputy during absences, which, he said, ensured “institutional propriety, even during personal health crises.”
The book also revealed a climate of mistrust around the Presidency.
Mrs. Buhari alleged surveillance, the bugging of the President’s office with listening devices, and playback of private conversations, saying, fear and conscience “contributed to taking his life.”
She refuted the long-held rumour that Buhari had a body double, popularly known as “Jibril of Sudan,” as absurd, arguing that poor strategic communication in government allowed simple, banal developments to metastasise into conspiracies.
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