Professor Usman Mohammed
As my student at the University of Abuja 25 years ago. I discovered that many of our female students from the Northern part of Nigeria, came to read courses that might not have to bear serious issues with their practices in their matrimonial homes.
Aisha came with the zeal and enthusiastic efforts to read Law. Coming from Zaria in Kaduna State, with solid backing of her father having been an orphan with little support from an average polygamous family.
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Her father understood his precarious position with majority almost all female siblings and with his solid Western education and tacit approval for the females to be educated.
Aisha as the arrow head of the project proved very good example for the rest of them. She came out tops and went to Law School after which she got married. Her marriage produced 2 females and a male sickler that she battles at all times to get well. Her first born got married after Aisha’s Divorce and embattled marriage.
Aisha left the shores of this naija to England and got more education and came back to serve in El-Rufai’s government in the first term. She was diagnosed with cancer and left for medical treatment in Egypt for some years after battling with the disease, Aisha gave up on 6th June 2024 and was buried according to Islamic rites.
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Having successfully raised her kids with the love of her late father whom she loved dearly, she galvanised the remaining sisters and siblings showing them great affections and love as they family.
The death of Barrister Aisha’s father, affected her greatly and her health started nose diving so very seriously. Not only was did she lost a mentor, supporter, father, and dear family love she needed at all times, but her uncommon courage and show of care to the late father she took care of during his sickness also was legendary, unparalleled, unrivalled by any in the family and so unprecedented.
I happened to have thought her over 20years and have been affectionately been a guardian angel all her formative years with interest on her courage, exemplary attitude and liver. That brought her so very close to my wives and family years back.
The life and times of Barrister Aisha, her success and her determination as a woman from Anguwan Juma Zaria city, has lots of lessons for the girl child education and the multiplier effects it has on the family, community, society and the entire state. Aisha was truly a shining star and an example of work and worship with determination as a woman to break bounds in a more Conservative society and remain very solid on Religious path.
I wish the family of Baba Saidu well, to bear this very huge gap and her children too for this irreplaceable loss at this time of grief and severe pain of loosing Aisha. I also wish and pray that Allah subhanahu wataallah, will forgive her indiscretions and shortcomings as human and give her a place in Jannatul firdausi.
Together with her mother and father and also give her children the way forward bi izzinillah. Indeed, the world is a stage and you have played a very ritious path loved by so many especially your teachers, friends and immediate family.
Adieu Barrister Aisha Saidu.