GOSSIP IN ASO ROCK MADE BUHARI BELIEVE I PLANNED TO KILL HIM- AISHA

It read, “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.”

The previous First Lady held a meeting with her main team members, such as the doctor, Suhayb Rafindadi; the Chief of Staff, Bashir Abubakar; the housekeeper, and the Director General of SSS, to talk about the plan.

She said, “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,” Omole narrated.

However, the routine frayed.

“Then came the gossip and the fearmongering. They said I wanted to kill him,” the book quotes her as saying.

“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,” she added.

Buhari’s health problems got worse, leading to two long trips to the UK in 2017, which lasted a total of 154 days. During this time, he passed control of the country to his Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo.

When he came back, he said he had never been so sick and had gotten blood transfusions.

His time away caused a lot of rumors, guesses, and even some conspiracy theories, according to Omole.

Buhari’s wife denied reports that someone was trying to poison him.

She believed, as Omole mentioned, that the main cause of the problem was losing her usual routine and not having proper nutrition.

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.