Aisha reveals what she suffered when she married president Buhari as a teenager

Nigeria’s First Lady, Aisha Buhari, has revealed some of the things she went through when she married president Muhammadu Buhari as a teenager girl.

Speaking recently as special guest of honour at a ceremony for the Armed Forces Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Centre (AFPTSDC) initiated by the Mrs Lucky Irabor-led Defence and Police Officers’ Wives Association (DEPOWA), the First Lady said she clocked age 19 in Buhari’s house as his wife.

Aisha added that Buhari married her one year after coming out of a 40-month detention.

“My husband served the Nigerian Army for 27 years before he was overthrown in a coup d’état. He fought civil war for 30 months without rehabilitation; he ruled Nigeria for 20 months and was detained for 40 months without disclosing the nature of his offence.

“One year after he came out from detention, we were married, I clocked 19 years in his house as his wife, legitimately.

“I suffered the consequences of PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder), because having gone through all these, and at the age of 19, to handle somebody, who was a former Head of State and Commander-in-Chief of Nigeria’s Armed Forces, to tell him that he is wrong is the first mistake you will make.

“So, at the age of 19, I had to figure out how to tell somebody of his calibre that he was wrong or right and that was the beginning of my offence in his house, and contesting elections in 2003 and failed, 2007, failed and 2011, the same thing – all without rehabilitation – I became a physiotherapist.”