We are grateful to those who have forgiven our father– Buhari’s daughters

I am the envy of many Presidents in the world - Buhari

The daughters of late Former President Buhari have expressed their gratitude to anyone who has deemed it fit to forgive their dad for anything he might have done against them while he was alive.

The former president d!ed in a London hospital in the UK on Sunday, July 13, after a long battle with an undisclosed ailment.

In an interview with BBC Hausa, Aisha, popularly known as Hanan Buhari, who is one of his children, expressed the gr!ef she felt after the de@th of her father. Hanan said that losing her father was like losing a part of her body.

 

“What I will miss most about him is his sense of humour. I look up to him as a part of me,” she explained.

Hanan also thanked Nigerians who forgave their father, saying

“We have nothing to say to them except thank you, thank God.”

 

She added that the deceased ex president had good intentions towards Nigerians, describing him as “one of the common people”.

 

“That disciplined me to study, pray, and do things that made us happy,” she said.

On her part, his eldest daughter, Hadiza Muhammadu Buhari, known as Nana, said her father was filled with love for Nigerians.

“During his treatment, I went to London to check on him. After he got better, I decided to return to Nigeria. When I told him, ‘Dad, I’m going,’ he said, ‘Where are you going?”

I told him I was returning to Nigeria, and he said, ‘Greet Nigerians,” she explained.