"My Father's Signature Was Forged on Official Documents" - Fatima Buhari

Fatima Buhari, the late President Muhammadu Buhari's daughter, claims her father's signature was forged on official documents during his presidency. She shared this in a biography, saying she identified fake signatures while reviewing documents as a forensic auditor and showed her father examples.

Fatima Buhari's claims about her father's signature being forged are featured in Charles Omole's biography, "From Soldier to Statesman: The Legacy of Muhammadu Buhari.

Acccording to Fatima Buhari, some of her father's approved speeches and directives were altered or modified without his knowledge.

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“During a trip to the United States, the president spoke at a small conference. Fatima sat in the hall, watching him read. “You were stopping,” she told him later. “It’s unlike you.” He responded quietly: the text in his hands was not the speech he had approved. Someone had altered it. It was not a rare occurrence, he said. That day, he put the script aside and spoke in his own words,” the book reads.

“This was the kind of misrepresentation the family came to recognise: directives diluted in transit, statements rephrased to suit other agendas, the subtle deformation of intent as paper moved from desk to desk. It was not always sabotage; sometimes, it was the slip of a large bureaucracy.

“However, sometimes it was the work of a clique.”

According to the book, Muhammadu Buhari suspected his State House residence was bugged, so he'd often communicate silently with his daughter, Fatima.

The author said security chiefs who served under Buhari confirmed finding suspicious objects in his office and room during routine security checks, backing up claims the president felt surveilled.

“A daughter and her father sit quietly together. He makes a small gesture, touching his cheek as if he has a toothache, and signals that they shouldn’t speak aloud. He believes “they” have a listening device planted (“like a chip”) in his office at the Villa,” the book said.

“Instead, they write messages to each other on paper, like spies in a film. He warns her to be cautious; he says he is, too. This isn’t melodrama but a way for the family to cope, having learned to mistrust the walls around them.”