Aisha Buhari Drops Bombshell: “They Told Him I Wanted Him Dead” — How Aso Rock Rumours Triggered Buhari’s 154-Day Health Crisis

Sahara reporters has taken to its official X handle and announced that the former First Lady, Aisha Buhari, has made a stunning revelation about the inner turmoil that rocked the Presidential Villa, disclosing that her late husband, President Muhammadu Buhari, began locking himself in his room after being fed rumours that she planned to kill him.

The explosive account is contained in a newly launched 600-page biography, From Soldier to Statesman: The Legacy of Muhammadu Buhari, authored by Charles Omole and unveiled at the State House on Monday.

According to Aisha Buhari, the whisper campaign within Aso Rock did not just strain their relationship — it triggered a chain of events that culminated in Buhari’s prolonged illness and 154 days of medical leave in 2017.

> “Then came the gossip and the fearmongering. They said I wanted to kill him,” the book quotes her as saying.
She revealed that Buhari believed the rumours for days, began locking his room, altered his habits, and crucially, abandoned the carefully structured feeding and supplement routine she had managed for years.

Aisha Buhari explained that long before her husband became President, she personally supervised his meals and supplements, a strict regimen designed to sustain what she described as “a slender man with a long history of malnutrition symptoms.”

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

However, once they moved into Aso Villa and the Presidency took over their private lives, that routine collapsed.

According to the book, Buhari’s meals were delayed or skipped entirely, supplements were discontinued, and proper nutrition was mismanaged.

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

She firmly dismissed claims that Buhari’s illness was mysterious or the result of poisoning, insisting instead that the crisis began with the loss of routine — ‘my nutrition,’ as she called it.

The deterioration eventually led to Buhari’s two extended medical trips to the United Kingdom in 2017, during which he handed over power to then Vice President Yemi Osinbajo.

On his return, Buhari himself admitted he had “never been so ill” and confirmed receiving blood transfusions.

Omole noted that Buhari’s prolonged absence fuelled widespread rumours, conspiracy theories and political tension across the country.

In London, doctors reportedly prescribed an even more intensive nutrition and supplement regimen. Initially, Buhari was said to be frightened and reluctant to take them.

That was when Aisha Buhari stepped back in.

> She discreetly mixed hospital-issued supplements into his juice and oats.

The results, she said, were dramatic.

> “After just three days, he threw away the stick he was walking with. After a week, he was receiving relatives.”

> “‘That,’ she said, ‘was both the genesis and the reversal of his sickness.’”

While critics argued that Buhari’s reliance on UK hospitals exposed the weakness of Nigeria’s health sector, Omole offered what he described as a more compassionate perspective — that a man in his 70s, after decades of public service and years of national underinvestment in healthcare, required specialised care not readily available at home.

In the end, Aisha Buhari’s account paints a haunting picture of how palace intrigue, fear and broken routines quietly pushed a sitting President to the brink — and how trust, care and nutrition pulled him back.