How I Made Sure My Second Wife Must Be AA Genotype – President Buhari

 Nigeria’s President, Muhammadu Buhari has revealed his family battles with sickle cell anemia, even as he said he lost two of his children from his late first wife, Safinatu Buhari to the condition.

 

Safinatu Buhari was the first wife of Muhammadu Buhari and the First Lady of Nigeria from 1983 to 1985. She got married to Muhammadu Buhari in 1971 when she was 18 after meeting him when she was 14. The union produced 5 children namely; Zulaihatu (deceased), Magajiya-Fatima, Hadizatu-Nana, Safinatu Lami, and Musa (deceased). But the marriage hit the rocks in 1988 when they got divorced and after Muhammadu Buhari’s government was overthrown by Ibrahim Babangida, she relocated to Kaduna with her children.

The Nigerian leader while featuring in a documentary titled, ‘Essential Muhammadu Buhari’ shown on Friday night December 23, at a private dinner organized by his family and very close associates, to celebrate his 80th birthday tagged “Celebrating A Patriot, a Leader, an Elder Statesman,” posited that he had insisted that his second wife must be AA genotype so that his children will not inherit the S from his AS genotype, having lost two of his children by his late wife to sickle cell anemia.