Kaduna — Captain Mahmud Junaid, widower of late Zulaihatu, eldest daughter of General Muhammadu Buhari, described her death as painful and shocking.

Captain Junaidu, who spoke briefly with journalists at the residence of the former Head of State in Kaduna, said he is troubled not only by the death of his beloved wife but the fact that their two-day old baby girl has to live without her biological mother.

"It is not easy to describe my feelings at this moment. It is the hardest moment of my life. I don't have a word to express my feeling. She (our two day old baby) is just a baby who is now alive without a mother."

He described his late his wife as "a nice person, religious and caring. She is very close to her father. All I can say is may Allah forgive her and give her aljanna firdaus."

Weekly Trust reports that late Zulaihatu, also called Magajiya, was the first of Buhari's nine children and was a sickle cell patient.