Former First Lady Aisha Buhari has offered her most revealing insider account yet of life inside Nigeria’s most fortified residence, alleging exclusion, whispered manipulation and medical missteps during Muhammadu Buhari’s eight-year presidency.
Her most startling claim is that individuals close to the President planted recording devices in private rooms, effectively turning living quarters into listening posts.
Confidential conversations, she alleges, were harvested and relayed to a small circle of power-brokers who used the information to heighten suspicion and tighten their control of presidential access.
She insists this was not authorised security work but an informal intelligence system run by people who viewed surveillance as personal leverage.
The result, she says, was the erosion of trust within the First Family and a widening gulf between the President and anyone outside the privileged inner ring.
Her testimony forms a key part of From Soldier to Statesman: The Legacy of Muhammadu Buhari, authored by Dr
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