Fatima Buhari, the daughter of the late former President Muhammadu Buhari, claimed that her father’s signature was copied without permission on some official papers while he was in charge. This claim was shared in a book called “From Soldier to Statesman: The Legacy of Muhammadu Buhari,” written by Charles Omole.
In the book, Fatima, who is a forensic auditor, said she checked some documents and showed her father examples of fake signatures that were added to his name.According to the book, Fatima mentioned that other people had also raised concerns about the president’s signature being faked. She also said that this kind of forgery wasn’t only a problem during her father’s presidency, as similar issues happened in earlier times too. The book also mentions that Fatima said some of her father’s speeches and directives were changed after he gave his approval.
One part of the book describes a situation where the president was at a small event in the United States. Fatima was there and watched him read. After the event, she told him, “You were stopping. It’s not like you.” He responded quietly, saying that the text he was holding wasn’t the speech he had approved. Someone had changed it. He added that this wasn’t something rare. That day, he put the script aside and spoke in his own words.
The book continues: “This was the kind of misrepresentation the family came to recognize: directives getting weaker as they moved, statements being rephrased to fit other goals, the slow change in meaning as paper passed from desk to desk. It wasn’t always sabotage; sometimes, it was just the mistake of a large government.”
However, sometimes it was the work of a group that worked together.”The book also shared that the late president thought his official home, the State House, was being listened to through wires. He often talked to his daughter in secret. The book says, “A daughter and her father sit quietly together. He makes a small move, touching his cheek as if he has a toothache, and signals that they shouldn’t speak aloud. He believes ‘they’ have a listening device in his office at the Villa, like a chip.” “Instead, they write messages to each other on paper, like spies in a movie. He warns her to be careful; he says he is too.
This isn’t just drama; it’s the way the family deals with things, having learned to not trust the walls around them.” The author also said that some of the top security officers who worked under Buhari confirmed finding strange items in the president’s office and room during routine security checks.