Former First Woman Aisha Buhari has mentioned she has no plans to remarry, describing the choice as pragmatic, not moralistic.
“She is not going to remarry, she says, virtually with a shrug,” she advised Dr Charles Omole, creator of the brand new 600-page biography titled ‘From Soldier to Statesman: The Legacy of Muhammadu Buhari’, unveiled on the State Home, Abuja, on Monday.
It added, “It’s not an ethical pronouncement a lot as a realistic one: she has grandchildren; one husband was sufficient.”
The 22-chapter work chronicled Buhari’s adolescence in Daura, Katsina state, till his ultimate hours in a London hospital in mid-July 2025.
It framed her stance as a refusal of cultural binaries that forged widows as both betrayers or saints.
“In a tradition that generally reads remarriage as betrayal or saintliness, her reply refuses each scripts. It’s merely a lady naming the contours of her future,” the ebook defined.
Outlining the following chapter of her life, the previous First Woman says she plans a quieter public life, splitting her time between household, philanthropy and journey.
“Her plans are home and cosmopolitan without delay. She is going to vacation with pals and associates. She is going to dote on grandchildren so they are going to keep in mind her not as a transferring determine behind tinted glass however as a presence of their childhood rooms.
“She is going to run her basis, the Aisha Buhari Basis, and the cardiovascular and medical centre in Kano that has already accomplished over 200 procedures.
“She is going to host, collaborate, and lengthen the identical ethic of care that animated her politics right into a quieter, extra sustainable hospitality,” the ebook famous.
Omole portrayed Mrs. Buhari’s selection as a private reset after years within the political highlight.
“If the republic expects a politics of everlasting return, she provides a politics of departure as a substitute: let others take the stage; let the home heal,” he mentioned.
“For Aisha Buhari, her marriage served as each a refuge and a trial.
“It gave her a platform to voice her opinions, solely to punish her for doing so. It opened doorways to the decision-making areas, however these areas turned unwelcoming.
“In 2014, she was entrusted with assembly the nation’s expectations; by 2014, she was excluded from acknowledgement,” it additional learn.
After his divorce in 1988, Buhari married Aisha Buhari (nee Halilu) on December 2, 1989.
Aisha, born in 1971 in Adamawa State, turned First Woman when Buhari returned to energy in 2015.
They had been married for 35 years and had 5 youngsters.