• Mr. President’s daughter quit first marriage because ex-husband turned her to a punching bag
Nobody told her marriage isn’t the fairy tale weddings make it up to be. And nobody ever taught her what to do when the love of her life mutilates her heart and renders her an empty carcass. But by the time Fatima Buhari was done with her first marriage, she had been effectively schooled in the bitterness and repugnance of love gone sour. Years after she divorced her first husband and father of her four kids, every memory of their broken union echoes like a curse, chills the heart of the daughter of President Muhammadu Buhari.
Unknown to many people, Fatima Buhari who got married to a former Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of the Federal Mortgage Bank of Nigeria, Malam Gimba Yau Kumo last weekend in Daura, used to be married to another man. Her marriage to the latter produced four kids – who were all born with the sickle cell gene.
Thus Fatima can hardly be described as a naive bride. She’s not a young lady as people think she is. She experienced hell in her first marriage. She didn’t enjoy the marriage a bit as her ex-husband reportedly beat her to stupor at the slightest provocation. When the beatings became extreme and started to take a toll on her health, she divorced the guy. Let’s hope she has found peace and love in the arms of her new husband. Unfortunately, all her kids are sickle cell patients.