ICYMI: Rumours of unease in Aso Rock confirmed; Mamman Daura’s daughter reveals messy details about their feud with Aisha Buhari

Fatima, daughter of Mamman Daura (President Muhammadu Buhari’s nephew), has accused the First Lady, Aisha Buhari, of attacking her inside the presidential villa in Abuja.

Commenting on a viral video where the first lady was seen complaining about being denied access to her apartment, Fatima said she least expected Buhari’s wife to act in a violent manner.

She explained that she recorded the incident which occurred in 2017, as proof that Buhari’s wife assaulted her.

“if one reasons well, he or she will understand that it is not possible to say that the wife of the president is denied access to her apartment but let me give a context, she narrated.

“The apartment in question is called the Glass House. You know that there are several houses and apartments in the villa. When the president got into office, he gave the Glass House to our father, Mamman Daura.

“You all know that they are friends and are related, more so, they grew up together like twins. When he became president, he gave the Glasshouse to our dad and said he should stay there. Our dad stayed there for three years now until when the president’s son, Yusuf, had an accident and went to Germany for treatment.

“When he returned, the president told our dad to move out of that apartment to an even bigger one in the villa, that Yusuf is going to stay and be treated in the Glass House. The Glass House is closer to the main presidential apartment and that will make easier access to him by his mother. It is not in her apartment which is in the main apartment.”

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“(On that day) My mom and dad were not around. So, my dad instructed me and my elder sister, both of us are working and we go to work every morning, that we should come on a Saturday and move our belongings to the new apartment the president instructed,” she said.

“We planned to park out then and have even concluded moving all the things. All of a sudden, in the afternoon as we were busy on that errand of packing our belongings when we heard noise from outside. I was in an inner room in the house while my sister was in an outer one close to the main gate of the apartment. So my sister went out before I could come out.

“On getting there, it was the wife of the president. When she came, the door was locked and she picked a metal chair and broke the door. I have sent the picture to you. My sister that went out was almost hit by the chair. She threw the chair which broke through the door and almost hit my sister.

“I was so shocked and afraid of getting there because she was shouting and reigning abusive words and saying we should move out of that apartment. That she has never seen this kind of thing before. I then went back and picked my phone because if one is to say that she acted that way, no one would believe it without a proof. She has already been saying a lot of things depicting that she is being suppressed.

“So I recorded it to show our parents and the security, so that they will know the truth should anything happen. Because the way she was raging and shouting, I was thinking that she would pick something and hit us with it or something like that. That was why we recorded it. Had it been we wanted to release the video, we would have done it earlier. But you know if a video clip enters one or two hands, you can’t control where it will get to.

“There are even other clips that have not been released, I will send them to you to see how she was insulting the security and how she drove them away saying who are they protecting and calling them bloody idiots. It’s all on the video clip. That was what happened.”

Fatima also denied social media reports alleging that her father was arranging a second marriage for the president.

In the BBC Hausa interview, Fatima said: “Wallahi, it is a lie. It is all part of what I am saying about the false allegations against our father. He is not even aware of the rumours about the marriage issue because he doesn’t use the social media. They are both monogamous. Both my dad and the president practice monogamy,” she said.

Mrs Buhari had, in an earlier interview granted BBC Hausa, acknowledged that she was the person in the video and that she had reacted after being denied access to parts of the villa by Daura and his family.

“I was the one in that video and this person you see standing at my back are my security personnel,” the first lady said.

“It was Fatima, the daughter of Mamman Daura that shot the video in front of my security and everybody there. She was actually recording the whole thing right in front of me and was laughing and mocking me.

“They did that because my husband sacked them from the house. He told them to get all their belongings and leave the house for my son (Yusuf) to occupy.”

Speculations had been rife over the years that Aisha had fallen out with very close aides of the President. Though none could directly place a handle on who her perceived enemies were, references were made to a certain cabal within the presidency.

Aisha had been away from the presidential villa for about two months. She returned late Saturday and informed newsmen that she had traveled on medical advise to deal with an undisclosed medical challenge.

Days before her arrival the social media had gone awash with rumours that her husband, President Buhari, had concluded plans to marry a new wife. It turned out to be false.

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