Hajiya Aisha Shagari and Hajiya Hadiza Shagari were the senior wives of Alhaji Shehu Shagari of Shagari village in Yabo Local Government, Sokoto State, the first executive President of the Federal Republic under the 1979 Constitution. As is conventional in the Sokoto aristocracy and in Shagari's Fulani Toronkawa lineage, the President's domestic life was not staged publicly; references in the press of the period to 'Mrs Shagari' or 'Victoria Shagari' typically conflate the household into a single figure for protocol purposes.
There was no Office of the First Lady, no formal budget line, no separate state aircraft. The senior wives ran the Shagari family compounds at Sokoto and at Aguda House, Lagos (then the official Vice-Presidential residence; the Shagaris occupied it before the move to Aso Rock was completed). The 1979 Constitution made no provision for the role; the political-spousal function was confined to private hospitality, Hajj pilgrimages, and the periodic patronage of the Sokoto Women's Association.
The Second Republic First Family was famously austere by the standards of what followed. President Shagari maintained the same Sokoto residence through and after his Presidency, was not personally implicated in the Umaru Dikko–Festus Marinho–Joseph Wayas oil-window corruption scandals of 1979–83, and after the Buhari coup of 31 December 1983 lived out his remaining years (he died on 28 December 2018) without ever rebuilding a political business. The Shagari family compound at Yabo, Sokoto, remains the site of the annual Shehu Shagari Memorial Lecture, organised by his son Aminu Shehu Shagari.