Buhari dropped kitchen ‘joke’ to spice our boring lives up – Garba Shehu defends boss
President Muhammadu Buhari’s “kitchen and the other room” talk about his wife Aisha is not but banter.
Buhari, sensing we all were bored, decided to “spice things up”, presidential media aide Garba Shehu defended his boss after Friday’s apparent anti-women comments.
Aisha had complained Buhari is working with appointees who know nothing about the promises the President made to Nigerians.
Buhari responded by saying Aisha belonged not to politics but “to my kitchen and my living room and the other room.”
And he did so while playing guest to German Chancellor Angela Merkel – one of the leaders of the Free World who happens to be a woman.
Shehu said Buhari was only joking.
WATCH: Buhari says wife belongs in kitchen
WATCH: President Buhari, Nigeria’s Misogynist-in-Chief, embarrasses own wife in Germany.
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“My friends, can’t a leader get a sense humour anymore? Mr. President laughed before that statement was made,” Shehu said.
“He was obviously throwing a banter.
“Mr. President respects the place of women in our society. He believes in the abilities of women.
“Politics sometimes should be spiced with humour. Those of us around him know there is never a dull moment with him.
“One of Nigeria’s most sensitive office today is headed by a woman, Mrs. Adeosun.
“This is an evidence of the confidence he reposes on women,” he said.
But the media aide failed to add that Goodluck Jonathan, Buhari’s predecessor, has way more women in his cabinet, and in very powerful positions.
Many say Buhari’s banter may be reflective of an outdated world view in which women were nothing more than second class humans.
