BBC Interview: “I won’t support you in 2019” – Aisha Buhari becomes “Nigerian Wailer”
Breaking News! Aisha Buhari is not happy with Muhammadu Buhari.
The Nigerian First Lady shelled her husband in a recent interview with BBC News‘ Naziru Mikailu.
We may now call her a “Nigerian Wailer” – any Nigerian who isn’t pleased with, and criticises, the government.
Count me out of 2019 if you continue down this road
“He is yet to tell me but I have decided as his wife, that if things continue like this up to 2019, I will not go out and campaign again and ask any woman to vote like I did before. I will never do it again.”
What road?
Aisha said her husband side-lined those who brought him to power and kept rewarding “complete strangers” who knew nothing about how he won the 2015 general election.
Her words:
“The president does not know 45 out of 50, for example, of the people he appointed and I don’t know them either, despite being his wife of 27 years.”
She suggested these “strangers” hijacked the government and are working against the promises Buhari and the All Progressives People’s Congress (APC) made to Nigerians.
“Some people are sitting down in their homes folding their arms only for them to be called to come and head an agency or a ministerial position,” she said.
“You will know them if you watch television,” she added refusing to mention names.
She said she wasn’t even sure her husband was in charge.
“That is left for the people to decide,” Aisha, whose damning comments about Buhari leave many in shock, said.
Aisha Buhari told BBC News her husband must reshuffle his cabinet now to breathe life into his administration.
She did praise Buhari for one thing: security in Nigeria’s northeast.
“No-one is complaining about being attacked in their own homes. Thankfully everyone can walk around freely, go to places of worship, etc,” she said.
“Even kids in Maiduguri have returned to schools.”
The First Lady’s damning comments coincided with news of Boko Haram releasing 21 of the over 200 girls they abducted from Chibok in Borno State of Nigeria’s northeast.
