- Safiu Kehinde
Former Nigerian First Lady, Aisha Buhari, has ruled out plan to remarry following the demise of her husband and former President Muhammadu Buhari.
This was disclosed in the newly launched 600-page biography of her late husband.
As contained in the book launched on Monday, the 54-year-old former first lady disclosed this during an interview with the author of the biography, Dr. Charles Omole.
According to Omole, Aisha had in the interview held that she has no plans to remarry, describing the decision as pragmatic, not moralistic.
“She will not remarry, she says, almost with a shrug,
“It is not a moral pronouncement so much as a pragmatic one: she has grandchildren; one husband was enough.” the author wrote in the 22-chapter work which chronicled Buhari’s early life in Daura, Katsina state, until his final hours in a London hospital in mid-July 2025.
The former first lady’s decision reportedly framed her stance as a refusal of cultural binaries 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 explained.
On her next line of action, the former First Lady disclosed plan to keep a quieter public life, splitting 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 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 the cardiovascular and medical centre in Kano that has already completed over two hundred procedures.
“She will host, collaborate, and extend the same ethic of care that animated her politics into a quieter, more sustainable hospitality,” the book noted.
The late Muhammadu Buhari had married Aisha at the age of 18 on the 2nd December, 1989, following his divorce in 1988.
Aisha was born in 1971 in Adamawa state with Nigeria’s first Minister of Defence, Muhammadu Ribadu, as her grandfather.
She became First Lady when Buhari returned to power in 2015 and held the position until the end of the late former President’s eight years tenure in 2023.