0
0
Former First Lady Aisha Buhari has revealed that she has no intention of remarrying.
According to Punch, she made this disclosure in a 600-page biography titled From Soldier to Statesman: The Legacy of Muhammadu Buhari, authored by Dr. Charles Omole, director-general of the Institute for Police and Security Policy Research. The book was unveiled at the State House, Abuja, on Monday, December 15, 2025.
“She will not remarry,” the biography notes, “almost with a shrug. It is not a moral pronouncement so much as a pragmatic one: she has grandchildren; one husband was enough.”
The 22-chapter work chronicles Buhari’s early life in Daura, Katsina State, through to his final hours in a London hospital in mid-July 2025. It frames Aisha Buhari’s stance as a refusal of cultural expectations that cast widows as either betrayers or saints.
“In a culture that sometimes reads remarriage as betrayal or saintliness, her answer refuses both scripts. It is simply a woman naming the contours of her future,” the book explains.
Looking ahead, the former First Lady plans a quieter public life, dividing her time between family, philanthropy, and travel.
“Her plans are domestic and cosmopolitan at once. She will holiday with friends and associates. She will dote on her grandchildren so they will remember her not as a moving figure behind tinted glass but as a presence in their childhood rooms.
“She will run her foundation, the Aisha Buhari Foundation, and oversee the cardiovascular and medical centre in Kano, which has already completed over 200 procedures. She will host, collaborate, and extend the same ethic of care that animated her politics into a quieter, more sustainable hospitality,” the book added.
Dr. Omole described Mrs. Buhari’s decision as a personal reset after years in the political spotlight.
“If the republic expects a politics of eternal return, she offers a politics of departure instead: let others take the stage; let the house heal,” he said.
The biography also highlights the complexities of her marriage. “For Aisha Buhari, her marriage served as both a refuge and a trial. It gave her a platform to voice her opinions, only to punish her for doing so. It opened doors to decision-making spaces, but those spaces became unwelcoming. In 2014, she was entrusted with meeting the nation’s expectations; by 2014, she was excluded from acknowledgement,” it reads.
After divorcing his first wife in 1988, Muhammadu Buhari married Aisha Halilu on December 2, 1989. Born in 1971 in Adamawa State, Aisha Buhari became First Lady when Buhari returned to power in 2015. The couple were married for 35 years and had five children.
Former President Muhammadu Buhari passed away on July 13, 2025, at the age of 82.
