President Buhari’s first wife: Probably a few of you might not know that Aisha Buhari was not the first lady when President Buhari was the head of state in 1984. Safinatu Buhari was a very beautiful woman who never really intervened much in her husband’s political endeavours, instead she made herself a family woman who even go as far as preparing her husband’s meal herself with just little assistance from the aides when he was the head of state…Below her facts you probably never knew about her. Enjoy:
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1. Hajia Safinatu was born on the 11th of December, 1952 in Jos, Plateau State into a family of 13 children, to Alhaji Yusufu Mani and Hajia Hadizatu Mani. Her mother, Hajia Hadizatu, gave birth to seven out of the 13 children.
2. She was well-educated and was so literate that she could read and write in Arabic, being well-grounded in Islamic education. She attended the Women Teacher’s Training College in Katsina where she obtained her Grade II Teachers Certificate in 1971.
3. Safinatu was 14 years old in 1966 when she met her husband, Buhari, for the very first time when the young major in the Nigerian Army paid a visit to the house of Safinatu’s father in the company of his friend, the late Major-General Shehu Musa Yar’adua (brother of Late President Umar Musa Yar’adua)
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