The
wife of the President, Aisha Buhari recently courted controversy after
granting an interview to the BBC Hausa Service in which she alleged that
some people have hijacked her husband's government.
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Mrs. Aisha Buhari
This is the full text of First Lady of Nigeria, Aisha Buhari's
interview she granted to the BBC Hausa Service as translated by
www.nishadi.tv.
BBC Hausa: It has been One and a half years since
President Muhammadu Buhari came into power, a lot of people are
expressing their unhappiness over the way few acquaintance of the
President have hijacked power while neglecting people that work for his
success. Like we have promised, here is how the interview with Aisha
Buhari and Naziru Maka’ilu from Abuja goes.
BBC Hausa: People have goodwill towards President
Muhammadu Buhari, especially looking at the things he did before, but
since coming into power things have not been working the way they
should, what do you thing is the cause?
Aisha Buhari: I am not a government official, but
in my opinion as a woman, a mother, what I think is it is well known
that the first 4 years are not going to be easy. Firstly, it was people
that brought the government into power. More than half of those people
are not appointed into the government. Some people that are not
politicians, not professionals were brought into the government. They
don’t even know what we said we want and what we don’t during the
campaign. They even come out and say to people we are not politicians,
but they are occupying the offices meant for politicians. Some have
parted with their wives, some lost their children lost, some women too
have parted with their husbands because of politics, a lot happened
during the time. The way things are going I too I am not happy. We are
just starting, we have not finished. Some people that worked for the
government have been appointed. But those heading government agencies
you can find one fighting his state governor, they contested together
during election one in APC while in PDP.
BBC Hausa: Who are those doing these kinds of things?
Aisha Buhari: Everybody knows them. Those people
should know that people voted singly. Even Buhari too had one vote.
Nobody voted 5 times. 15.429 Million People. That one that people are
thinking too, he had only some 2 or 3 people. I am pleading to them to
have the people at heart and embrace everybody so that we can all move
together. Not even now in 2016 or 17, lot of people are creating
divisions within the APC, which is our source of concern. They think
they have worked for the government while those appointed some of them
had no voter’s card. What I fear is uprising of 15.4 million people.
BBC Hausa: Is the President aware some people are subverting his government?
Aisha Buhari: Whether he knows or he do not, those that voted for him knows.
BBC Hausa: But you are the most closest to him, did you tell him?
Aisha Buhari: There is nothing I can tell him, he
is seeing things himself. Out of the people he has appointed, take 50,
45 of them I don’t know them. Perhaps he doesn’t know them too. I have
been living with him for 27 years.
BBC Hausa: Do you think there are some people that are dictating to the President things to do, not him?
Aisha Buhari: That is what I am saying, those that
know they don’t have voters card, they should give chance to those that
have, they are the ones that struggled and knows what we want to do.
Some of them if you go to a meeting with them they will tell you, we are
not politicians, if somebody is wise, they will not accept to take any
political office. They didn’t even work for it. Even if you are asked
to, you should say it is not my profession. Those places not headed by
politicians will cause people discontent.
BBC Hausa: One would wonder to hear you say some
people have hijacked the government without him knowing, but who do you
think are those people?
Aisha Buhari: I don’t know them, I don’t know them. I don’t know them
BBC Hausa: But some people are calling names, saying 2 or 3 are the ones, do you that as well?
Aisha Buhari: Yes I agree. Because of those
appointed apart from Fashola, Ameachi and some others, not much, I don’t
know them, most of us too don’t know them, and he too does not know
them
BBC Hausa: One would wonder that Buhari is not the
one charge knowing him as a person who had leadership experiences,
people would not believe.
Aisha Buhari: Yes it is surprising; nobody thought
it is going to be like this. But now that it is so…sometimes when one
is doing something wrong without him knowing, but when people talk to
them, they should listen. Because in the future, whether he is going to
contest or not, it is that same people that would vote for APC. We hope
those people don’t come back, and everybody don’t hope so too
BBC Hausa: You said “Whether he is going to contest in the future or not”, has he disclose it to you whether he is standing or not?
Aisha Buhari: He didn’t tell me, but I have made up my mind.
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