Could THIS happen with President Buhari in 2019 because of Aisha? MUST READ
Editor’s note: The controversial interview of Aisha Buhari, the president’s wife, to the BBC Hausa, has garnered a lot of reactions from all over the world.
Mrs Buhari said that she would not support her husband in 2019 because his government has been hijacked by the unknown people.
Jaafar Jaafar, a political analyst and blogger, explores the current situation in Buhari’s government and the chances of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the 2019 elections.
President Muhammadu Buhari hosts APC party leaders. File photo
President Buhari’s recent gaffe on his wife Aisha Buhari belonging ‘to the kitchen, sitting room and the other room’ has garnered a lot of reactions from all over the world. Some feel the president was making a joke (albeit an expensive one), while others feel women are much more than the president’s description.
At the heat of the intense pressure mounted on the BBC to stop airing the remaining part of the controversial Aisha Buhari interview a few days ago, I had the privilege of listening to the interview before it was fully aired.
My good friend, the Head of the Abuja bureau of the BBC, Naziru Mika’il Abubakar, invited me to his office for comment on the interview and directed that it be played to me before recording my comment.
Listening to the president’s wife passionately expressing herself on how her husband runs Nigeria left me cringing. Reading between the lines, I realised Mrs Buhari was sending SOS to Nigerians to save her bewitched, servile husband from the clutches of the Aso Rock witches, popularly known as “Aso cabal”.
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The Buhari I knew before the election was not the obtuse person we have today as president. The Buhari I promoted during the campaign had no nepotic, despotic or robotic tendencies. The Buhari I voted for was not this pliable. Forgive me if my knowledge of him was superficial.
Aisha Buhari might have pitched the nation a curve ball, but her interview is actually a deafening echo of what we’ve said for ages about her husband.
When I first raised alarm on the dangers of the influence of numero uno of the cabal, Mamman Daura, on the Buhari administration barely three weeks after Buhari took an oath of office, I received all manner of insults and invective. Today a lot of my predictions have come to reality.
But if actually, the Mamman Daura cabal is the one running this country, then it appears to be a very unintelligent lot whose mastery does not go beyond the art of nepotism and crafts of plagiarism.
This cabal has kept both the nation and the president under a spell, leaving the economy to slide into recession, our currency to crash beyond salvation and impunity to reign supreme. This cabal suffocated a mega political party Nigerians from all regions laboured and united to build.
It always saddens me to realise that our president has been turned into a puppet, managed by some half-witted puppeteers, who are majorly dextrose at swinging his legs to Europe, America and Asia, stretching his hand to perpetuate nepotism or opening his mouth to goof.
A leading member of the cabal, who is the present Chief of Staff to the president, Abba Kyari, was appointed by former President Goodluck Jonathan as a member of the Ribadu-led Petroleum Revenue Task Force in 2012. A year earlier, Kyari had turned down Buhari’s offer to serve as the secretary of one of CPC presidential campaign committees — perhaps because Buhari had little chance of winning.
Aisha Buhari might have been wondering where were loyal Buhari campaigners like Senator Olorunnimbe Mamora, Faruq Adamu Aliyu, Dele Alake, Barrister Ismail Ahmed, Architect Waziri Bulama, Yusuf Tuga, Yakubu Lame, Dr. Hassan Lawan, Dr. Hakeem Baba-Ahmed, Umaru Dembo, Ubale Hashim, Umar Dangiwa, Ibrahim Hussein Abdulkarim (the brain behind BSO crowdfunding innovation), among others?
The president’s wife and party supporters will also be incensed to see appointees of the past government still heading a number of agencies and departments. The cabal should know that party men are piqued that the 12 agencies of the Federal Ministry of Water Resources are still headed by the appointees of the past government as well as a minister, Engr Sulaiman Adamu, appointed not for his political contributions to the success of Buhari but close family ties.
Now take a cursory look at the reappointment of Umaru Ibrahim as managing director of NDIC. Ibrahim was appointed in December 2010 by Jonathan but was reappointed by Buhari to serve another five years as if there were no competent persons within the party fold. One still wonders why the Director-General of PenCom, Mrs Chinelo Anohu-Amazu, is retained despite the fact that her appointment was initially done in violation of law. Does Buhari think his party is happy that Malam Sani Sidi, a protege of former Vice President Namadi Sambo, is still the head of National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA?
Whoever wishes the president and APC well must feel strongly about this. As someone who stood by her husband during the election, Aisha Buhari has rights to complain when some forces took over her husband or when things go wrong in the party. I still believe she loves her husband more than those that are insulting or mocking her. She is still the highest authority on the president’s mental and socio-physical state.
One basic fact a lot of fanatical supporters of Buhari forget is that he rode on a saddle of a political party to power. The fortunes of the party are diminishing and those who laboured to build the party and ensured the emergence of Buhari as a candidate are relegated, while political ambulance chasers take the centre stage. APC’s growth is inorganic, and so needs some therapies to strengthen its fragility.
There is concern about the political future of Buhari and APC. As it stands today, barring any miracle, Buhari could either be the first incumbent Nigerian president to lose a party ticket in the primaries or the second president to lose re-election in Nigeria’s political history.
Source:Naij
President Buhari’s recent gaffe on his wife Aisha Buhari belonging ‘to the kitchen, sitting room and the other room’ has garnered a lot of reactions from all over the world. Some feel the president was making a joke (albeit an expensive one), while others feel women are much more than the president’s description.
At the heat of the intense pressure mounted on the BBC to stop airing the remaining part of the controversial Aisha Buhari interview a few days ago, I had the privilege of listening to the interview before it was fully aired.
My good friend, the Head of the Abuja bureau of the BBC, Naziru Mika’il Abubakar, invited me to his office for comment on the interview and directed that it be played to me before recording my comment.
Listening to the president’s wife passionately expressing herself on how her husband runs Nigeria left me cringing. Reading between the lines, I realised Mrs Buhari was sending SOS to Nigerians to save her bewitched, servile husband from the clutches of the Aso Rock witches, popularly known as “Aso cabal”.
READ Revealed: How fight with Buhari's minister led to sack of former JAMB boss (MUST READ)
The Buhari I knew before the election was not the obtuse person we have today as president. The Buhari I promoted during the campaign had no nepotic, despotic or robotic tendencies. The Buhari I voted for was not this pliable. Forgive me if my knowledge of him was superficial.
Aisha Buhari might have pitched the nation a curve ball, but her interview is actually a deafening echo of what we’ve said for ages about her husband.
When I first raised alarm on the dangers of the influence of numero uno of the cabal, Mamman Daura, on the Buhari administration barely three weeks after Buhari took an oath of office, I received all manner of insults and invective. Today a lot of my predictions have come to reality.
But if actually, the Mamman Daura cabal is the one running this country, then it appears to be a very unintelligent lot whose mastery does not go beyond the art of nepotism and crafts of plagiarism.
This cabal has kept both the nation and the president under a spell, leaving the economy to slide into recession, our currency to crash beyond salvation and impunity to reign supreme. This cabal suffocated a mega political party Nigerians from all regions laboured and united to build.
It always saddens me to realise that our president has been turned into a puppet, managed by some half-witted puppeteers, who are majorly dextrose at swinging his legs to Europe, America and Asia, stretching his hand to perpetuate nepotism or opening his mouth to goof.
A leading member of the cabal, who is the present Chief of Staff to the president, Abba Kyari, was appointed by former President Goodluck Jonathan as a member of the Ribadu-led Petroleum Revenue Task Force in 2012. A year earlier, Kyari had turned down Buhari’s offer to serve as the secretary of one of CPC presidential campaign committees — perhaps because Buhari had little chance of winning.
Aisha Buhari might have been wondering where were loyal Buhari campaigners like Senator Olorunnimbe Mamora, Faruq Adamu Aliyu, Dele Alake, Barrister Ismail Ahmed, Architect Waziri Bulama, Yusuf Tuga, Yakubu Lame, Dr. Hassan Lawan, Dr. Hakeem Baba-Ahmed, Umaru Dembo, Ubale Hashim, Umar Dangiwa, Ibrahim Hussein Abdulkarim (the brain behind BSO crowdfunding innovation), among others?
The president’s wife and party supporters will also be incensed to see appointees of the past government still heading a number of agencies and departments. The cabal should know that party men are piqued that the 12 agencies of the Federal Ministry of Water Resources are still headed by the appointees of the past government as well as a minister, Engr Sulaiman Adamu, appointed not for his political contributions to the success of Buhari but close family ties.
Now take a cursory look at the reappointment of Umaru Ibrahim as managing director of NDIC. Ibrahim was appointed in December 2010 by Jonathan but was reappointed by Buhari to serve another five years as if there were no competent persons within the party fold. One still wonders why the Director-General of PenCom, Mrs Chinelo Anohu-Amazu, is retained despite the fact that her appointment was initially done in violation of law. Does Buhari think his party is happy that Malam Sani Sidi, a protege of former Vice President Namadi Sambo, is still the head of National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA?
Whoever wishes the president and APC well must feel strongly about this. As someone who stood by her husband during the election, Aisha Buhari has rights to complain when some forces took over her husband or when things go wrong in the party. I still believe she loves her husband more than those that are insulting or mocking her. She is still the highest authority on the president’s mental and socio-physical state.
One basic fact a lot of fanatical supporters of Buhari forget is that he rode on a saddle of a political party to power. The fortunes of the party are diminishing and those who laboured to build the party and ensured the emergence of Buhari as a candidate are relegated, while political ambulance chasers take the centre stage. APC’s growth is inorganic, and so needs some therapies to strengthen its fragility.
There is concern about the political future of Buhari and APC. As it stands today, barring any miracle, Buhari could either be the first incumbent Nigerian president to lose a party ticket in the primaries or the second president to lose re-election in Nigeria’s political history.
Source:Naij
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