<h4>How I Managed President</h4>
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<p><strong><a href="https://openlife.ng/">OpenLife Nigeria</a></strong> reports that former First Lady Aisha Buhari has recounted how she managed her late husband, former President Muhammadu Buhari’s health condition at a most critical period.<br />
Mrs Aisha Buhari’s account is contained in a newly released 600-page biography, From Soldier to Statesman: The Legacy of Muhammadu Buhari, authored by Dr Charles Omole. The book was launched on Monday at the State House.</p>
<p>According to her, the former president’s illness was neither a mysterious condition nor the result of poisoning.<br />
She also disclosed that the health challenges which compelled Buhari to embark on a 154-day medical leave in 2017 stemmed from a disrupted feeding routine and poorly managed nutrition.</p>
<p>The 22-chapter biography traces Buhari’s journey from his early years in Daura, Katsina State, to his final moments in a London hospital in mid-July 2025.<br />
The book states that Mrs Buhari had for years personally overseen her husband’s meals and supplements at fixed times, a routine she said helped “a slender man with a long history of malnutrition symptoms” remain strong.</p>
<p>Emphasising the importance of discipline in elderly care, she recalled saying, “Elderly bodies require gentle, consistent support,” and added, “He doesn’t have a chronic illness. Keep him on schedule.”</p>
<p>It 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.”</p>
<p>The former First Lady convened a meeting with close staff, including the physician, Suhayb Rafindadi; the CSO, Bashir Abubakar; the housekeeper, and the SSS DG to explain the plan.<br />
She said, “Daily, cups and bowls with tailored vitamin powders and oils, a touch of protein here, a change to cereals there.”</p>
<p>“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.<br />
However, the routine frayed.</p>
<p>“Then came the gossip and the fearmongering. They said I wanted to kill him,” the book quotes her as saying.<br />
“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.”</p>
<p>“For a year, he did not have lunch. They mismanaged his meals,” she added.<br />
The decline ultimately led to Buhari undertaking two prolonged medical stays in the <strong><a href="https://openlife.ng/">United Kingdom</a></strong> in 2017, lasting a combined 154 days, during which he transferred presidential powers to Vice President Yemi Osinbajo.</p>
<p>After his return, Buhari acknowledged that he had “never been so ill” and disclosed that he received blood transfusions during his treatment.<br />
Buhari’s absences “sparked rumours, speculation, and even conspiracy theories,” Omole wrote.<br />
Mrs Buhari debunked stories of plots to poison her husband.</p>
<p>Her contention, <a href="https://www.vanguardngr.com/">Omole</a> noted, is that “loss of a routine, ‘my nutrition,’ was the genesis of the crisis.”<br />
In London, doctors prescribed an even stronger regimen of supplements, he explained.<br />
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.</p>
<p>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.”<br />
“‘That,’ she says, ‘was the genesis, and also the reversal of his sickness,’” the book stated.</p>

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