The Second D£ath of Buhari.
The Second Death of Buhari…
By
Abdullahi O Haruna Haruspice
To begin this, let it be on record- we didn’t know Aisha before we grew our love for Buhari- and her verdict of him is as inconsequential as the k in a knife. Muhammadu Buhari remains our unapologetic reference of awe, integrity and stainless legacy.
Feel free to identify your idol, as for us, in many years to come, we are eternally glued to the phenomenon called Muhammadu Buhari. Until the end, the Buhari In Us remains stoic and unfading.
You authored a book to retell the bedroom details of your husband, the father of your children – to achieve what exactly? That your late husband wasn’t the man the world believed he was? That he was a bad husband or he refused to discard his kinsmen?
It is good to ventilate one’s thoughts but there are certain things we must not do- especially to our dead love ones- needlessly setting them up for drags, trolls and venom! Months after burying your husband – still consumed in freshly baked grief, you rushed out with a book – not of grief but of lamentation on how he treated you as the wife of the president! What happened to shared memories,the love shared and the vacuum of his departure? You will never see this man again – aren’t you feeling lonely and empty that your husband of over 30 years is gone?
Grief deserves air, yes—but not every ventilation is wisdom. There are silences owed to the dead, not because they were perfect, but because they are gone. To offer a lament disguised as memoir, months after burial, is to invite trolls where tenderness should have been allowed to heal. Where are the shared memories, the long companionship, the quiet weight of a thirty-year union now ended forever? Does the finality of absence not inspire restraint?
Why not wait say a year after his death to launch this diatribe? To launch your revenge, to say, ‘I told you, distant yourself from your kinsmen ‘. In the whole of this book, you didn’t say what your grudge is- that he failed as a leader? That he denied you the throne of the first lady or he amassed wealth thus staining his integrity toga? Mama Aisha, what exactly is the motive behind your contracted book on your late husband?
Mama Aisha, history is stern but patient. Motives matter. And when one speaks of the dead, especially a man who can no longer reply, the question is never merely what is said, but why it must be said—now.
My heart is broken because for the second time, we are witnessing the death of Muhammadu Buhari…
Curiously musing
