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  • Buhari's wife, Aisha condemns conduct of APC primaries, blasts Oshiomhole for encouraging 'impunity'

    ..vows to dissociate self from party activities
    The wife of the president, Aisha Buhari, has criticised the primaries of the All Progressives Congress (APC).

    Mrs Buhari, whose husband Muhammadu Buhari officially emerged the presidential candidate of the APC early Sunday, made her position known on her official Instagram page.

    She has been known to openly express her views on the party and the presidency in the past.

    Aisha Buhari’s criticism was more general as she did not specify which particular primaries or candidates she was referring to.

    The APC has conducted presidential, gubernatorial, and senatorial primaries in the past week across Nigeria.

    Read her full criticism below.

    It is disheartening to note that some aspirants used their hard earned money to purchase nomination forms, got screened, cleared and campaigned vigorously yet found their names omitted on Election Day, these forms were bought at exorbitant prices.

    Many others contested and yet had their result delayed. Fully knowing that AUTOMATIC tickets have been given to other people.

    All Progressives Congress being a party whose cardinal principle is change and headed by a comrade/ activist whose main concern is for the common man, yet, such impunity could take place under its watch.

    Given this development one will not hesitate than DISSOCIATE from such unfairness, be neutral and speak for the voiceless.

    It is important for the populace to rise against impunity and for voters to demand from aspirants to be committed to the provision of basic amenities such as:
    1. Potable drinking water

    2. Basic health care ( Primary Health Care centers)
    3. Education within conducive & appropriate learning environments.

    Let us vote wisely !!!!
    LONG LIVE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA!!!!!!

     

  • Adamawa APC primaries: Ribadu, Aisha Buhari's brother protest, seek cancellation of Gov Bindow's emergence

    Two aspirants for Adamawa state governorship under the All Progressives Congress (APC) have condemned the conduct of governorship primaries of the party, that produced incumbent governor, Mohammed Bindow as the party’s flag bearer for the 2019 governorship election in the state.

    In separate media briefings Saturday in Yola, the state capital, Nuhu Ribadu, a former chairman of EFCC, and Mahmoud Ahmed, a brother of Aisha Buhari, wife of President Muhammadu Buhari, alleged that the process was hijacked across the state.

    The two are contesting for the APC ticket along with incumbent governor Mohammed Bindow.

    They said party members who thronged polling centres were stranded throughout Friday as no officials turned up to conduct the election.

    Ribadu said the hijack of the process was a confirmation of their “worst fears” over the neutrality of party officials in the state.

    In the text of his statement, Ahmed, called for sanction on the party officials who allegedly masterminded the hijack, which he said was done to create confusion in the party.

    The two aspirants called on the national leadership of the party to cancel the purported primaries, and dissolve party leadership at the local level to give way for a fair contest.

    Ribadu, on his part, said the involvement of the party officials in the elections makes the direct primaries not different from the indirect primaries that he and others earlier opposed.

    Ahmed said his agents at various local governments were barred from election centres and, in some instances, threatened with violence.

    Full text of Mr Ribadu’s press statement is reproduced below:

    Gentlemen of the press,

    You are witnesses to political happenings in Adamawa State in the past week, specifically in relation to the conduct of the governorship primaries of our great party, the All Progressives Congress (APC).

    The indirect primaries initially slated for Saturday, October 29, 2018, came with so much confusion and chaos that made me withdraw from the process in protest. Happily, the National Working Committee of the party saw through the crisis at the time and took the right decision of recalling the electoral committee and changed the mode of the primaries from indirect to the much-preferred direct primaries. Stakeholders and our supporters were very happy about that change, leading to spontaneous jubilations across the state.

    Our preference for direct primaries, right from the beginning, was based on the need to give power to the people and let all party members decide for themselves who to fly the party’s flag, in an open and democratic process.

    We were also opposed to indirect primaries ab initio because we believe the process that brought those expected to participate in the process was undemocratic. They were largely handpicked by those who hijacked the party congresses in Adamawa.

    It was therefore with scepticism that I and my campaign organisation accepted to have party officials at the ward levels to superintend the direct primaries at their respective wards, under the supervision of the panel sent from Abuja. Indeed, at a meeting between the committee and aspirants, I made a strong case for neutral people to conduct the elections.

    To our shock and amazement, our worst fears were confirmed, as the electoral process was completely hijacked across the state.

    Thousands of our supporters trooped to all the 226 wards early enough on Friday to exercise their rights. They waited for hours under the sun till the sunset without sighting any official.

    Personally, I visited some of the wards within the metropolis where we met anxious people that were angry at the absence of persons that would coordinate the elections. It is similar report we got from our agents from across the state.

    The election materials distributed at the local government headquarters were hijacked by government officials and party leaders, who went on to fill out funny figures and return them to the returning officers as results from the wards.

    Interestingly, there is no media coverage of the so-called conduct of the exercise anywhere in the state.

    On the basis of these, we demand, as follows:

    1. The National Working Committee should, as a matter of urgency, step in and save our party from this embarrassing situation, one that is capable of eroding public confidence on the party and its leadership.

    2. We demand immediate cancellation of the so-called results being announced currently as they are figures cooked up by shameless persons who have no credibility and popularity to withstand free and fair contest. We reiterate that no election has taken place anywhere in Adamawa State and it is therefore impossible to declare any result.

    3. The party executives at the wards and local government levels should be immediately disbanded as they have demonstrated their bias and showcased that they cannot be fair and just to all party members.

     

  • US visit: You deserve some accolades, Aisha Buhari praises husband

    US visit: You deserve some accolades, Aisha Buhari praises husband

    President Muhammadu Buhari’s wife, Aisha, on Monday said the President deserved some accolades for his United States’ outing.

    Mrs. Buhari said this in a message she posted on her verified Twitter handle, @aishambuhari.

    “Dear President, you deserve some accolades,” she wrote as she shared some of photographs taken during Buhari’s meeting with US President Donald Trump at the White House, Washington DC earlier in the day.

    The pictures included where Buhari was signing the visitors’ register with Trump looking on, where both leaders were shaking hands and another one depicting the the two Presidents and members of their teams.

    The message instantly generated diverse reactions from Mrs. Buhari’s followers on Twitter.

     

  • Why I criticised my husband’s government, Aisha Buhari explains

    The wife of President Muhammadu Buhari, Aisha Buhari, has explained that her 2016 interview which was considered to be critical of her husband’s administration was based on her sense of justice.

    She said the interview was not meant to be confrontational or a sign of disrespect.

    Mrs. Buhari made the clarification in a message she sent to the 2017 Vanguard Awards where she was honoured as one of Vanguard Personality of the Year 2017.

    A copy of the message of the President’s wife who was represented at the event by one of her daughters, Halima, was made available to journalists on Sunday by her spokesman, Suleiman Haruna.

    Mrs. Buhari said she was brought up to stand by the truth and that was how she has been living her life.

    She said Nigerians elected her husband based on the trust and confidence they have in him and she felt the administration must serve Nigeria to the best of its ability.

    The President’s wife said, “I wish to thank the management of Vanguard Media Limited for this unexpected award, in recognition of my humanitarian efforts towards improving the health and welfare of Nigerians particularly women, children and less privileged.

    “One of the reasons adduced for honouring me was the interview I granted which some people saw as criticism to a government that I am part of.

    “I need to state that my position was a result of my sense of justice and not confrontation or disrespect. I was brought up to stand by the truth and this is how I have always been.

    “As we are all aware, Nigerians elected this administration based on the trust and confidence they have on my husband; I, therefore, feel that we are here to serve Nigeria to the best of our ability.

    “Let me use this opportunity to state that I support my husband in this call to service and will continue to do so.

    “On this note, I hereby dedicate this award to the people of Nigeria, especially women. Thank you sincerely for this award.”

    Mrs. Buhari had in the 2016 interview with BBC warned her husband that she might not back him at the 2019 election unless he shakes up his government.

    She has claimed that the President did not know most of the top officials he appointed.

    She had said, “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.

    “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.”

    In the BBC interview, the Mrs. Buhari refused to name those who had hijacked the government, saying, “You will know them if you watch television.”

    On whether the President was in charge, she said, “That is left for the people to decide.”

    Mrs. Buhari had also said her husband had not told her whether he would contest the 2019 election as of the time of the interview.

    She had said, “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.”

  • Dapchi, Chibok abduction: ‘Leave our Girls alone!’ Aisha Buhari tells Boko Haram insurgents

    Wife of the President Mrs Aisha Buhari says she shares in the sorrow and agony of parents of all abducted girls in the country.

    Mrs Buhari said that she shared the agony of especially parents of the abducted Chibok and Dapchi school girls.

    She expressed the concern in Abuja on Thursday while delivering a speech she titled: “Leave Our Daughters Alone’’, to mark the 2018 International Women`s Day.

    “As a mother, I share (in) the sorrow and agony which the parents are going through up to this moment.

    “I am aware of the efforts being made for the release of the remaining Chibok girls as well as the recently (abducted) Dapchi girls.

    “It is my sincere hope that the efforts will yield positive results.”

    The wife of the President said that the abductions had further exposed the long-standing evil perpetrated against women in the society.

    She, therefore, called on relevant stakeholders, especially the media, to stand against the “disturbing issue’’.

    “It is a disturbing issue for which we must put heads together, pray, speak out, show concern and ensure that the situation come an end.’’

    She, therefore, called on Nigerians, especially the media to join the campaign against all forms of abduction and maltreatment of the Nigerian woman.

    Mrs Buhari said it was unfortunate that celebration of the 2018 International women`s day came with pains and agony following the abduction of the Dapchi School girls.

    She also expressed concern over the use of young girls by insurgents to carry out suicide bombing.

    She, however, congratulated Nigerian women for successfully marking the Day and prayed for greater opportunities for the Nigerian woman.

    The wife of the president also prayed for Nigerian women to have equal opportunities in governance as their male counterparts.

    In her remark, the wife of Vice-President, Mrs Dolapo Osinbajo, said the 2018 event came in a very happy and worst situation considering the progress made by Nigerian team at the winter Olympic as well as the abduction of the Dapchi girls.

    Mrs Osinbajo also called for equal opportunity to the women.

    The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the United Nations set aside March 8, of every year to mark the International women`s day.

    The event was organised by the National Centre for Women Development in collaboration with the wife of the President.

  • BREAKING: Aisha Buhari releases photos, confirms Yusuf’s return to Nigeria (Photos)

    Wife of the President Hajia Aisha Buhari has confirmed the return of her son, Yusuf to Nigeria.

    Recall Yusuf who was recently involved in an accident was flown to Germany for further treatment.

    The first lady made the photos available to the public via her official Twitter account, @aishambuhari.

    She wrote, ” we thank God for the return of our son Yusuf today after his medical trip. On land at the airport he was received by the Minister of Health (State) Dr. Osagie, while at the Villa he was welcomed by family members, Wife of the Vice President, the Interior minister”

    Just last week, Buhari’s Special Assistant on Social Media, Lauretta Onochie, reacted to reports claiming that Yusuf was dead.

    On her Twitter page, she wrote: “The news making the rounds regarding Yusuf Buhari, son of Pres. Buhari & Aisha Buhari, is Fake.

     

  • I stand with Aisha Buhari – Azu Ishiekwene

    By Azu Ishiekwene

    The decision of First Lady, Aisha Buhari, to retweet criticisms of the Buhari administration caused quite a stir last week.

    Not a few had hoped she would disclaim the handle or moan that it was hacked. But she didn’t.

    In a week when her husband was under the most severe attack in recent times for fiddling as widespread killings brought the country to its knees, praying for his intervention that would not come, Aisha’s retweet piled on Abuja’s incompetence.

    It was more telling that she sourced her weapons from “enemy” territory. Neither Ben Murray-Bruce nor Isah Misau whose videos Aisha retweeted is in the government’s good books.

    Murray-Bruce, the blue-eyed show boy from the Obasanjo era is a PDP senator from Bayelsa State. He is also the author of a series of controversial articles on “Commonsense”, which made a virtue of driving from the passenger’s seat, only for him to have a run-in with the Buhari government for failing to repay over N10 billion loan that was overdue. His firm was placed under receivership.

    On his part, Senator Misau (APC, Bauchi Central), a retired police officer, ruffled feathers last year when he accused the Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris Kpotum, of profiteering from deploying policemen to look after fat cats and covering his tracks by illegally donating two SUVs to the First Lady.

    If all she wanted were to play politics, Murray-Bruce and Misau would be the last persons Aisha would look to for a stick to beat the government. But the resident iconoclast has proved, once again, that she would not be confined by expediency to “the other room”.

    At a time when silence and indifference would have been very convenient – and even understandable – for many in her shoes, Aisha has chosen to stick out her neck for a country that desperately needs any help it can get.

    Her retweet was a deep cry for help rendered in the anguished silence of Twitterdom. My guess is that though it was meant for her husband’s attention, it was also a strong message to the powerful forces around her husband, who have labeled her the “suicide bomber from Adamawa.”

    The Lion King is encircled and jackals and hyenas – and even rodents – are having a field day. That retweet is the third major in attempt in less than two years to rescue the Lion King from the hunters, but it would seem that the most dangerous hunter of all might well be the man himself.

    Aisha saw the signs early on, and in a way that reminds one of Lady Diana’s courageous attempts to save the Crown from obsolescence, she raised a flag.

    When long-time friends were too scared to speak out or barred from access, when political appointees and party stalwarts were telling Buhari that he was the best thing that happened since the Amalgamation, Aisha said in a BBC Hausa service interview that Buhari was at the risk of a rebellion in his base for neglecting those who had worked for his election.

    From former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s devastatingly poignant letter on Tuesday, it appears that the rebellion has spread beyond Buhari’s base: his sponsors have also been infected.

    Back then, Aisha suggested that a cabal had hijacked the President and prevented him from following through with the change agenda of the All Progressives Congress.

    President Buhari tried to deflect the bombshell by joking in an interview (with German Chancellor Angela Merkel sitting by his side), that his wife should be forgiven for venturing outside her place in “the other room.”

    But Aisha’s intervention was not a joke. It was a genuine expression of concern about her straying husband as it was a personal cry for freedom from two monstrously powerful people in the Presidency who were wrapping her husband around their small fingers.

    The untold story from Aisha’s retweet is that the fellows still have Buhari cornered, exploiting his inherent fears and weaknesses as best as they can. Show me the woman in her shoes that would not get mad.

    At a point, a number of people thought Buhari’s lethargy, his slow, confused, and often parochial responses to pressing issues had to do with his ill health. The delay in taking decisions, the intra-agency squabbles, stealing and extortion by a few in plain sight and the scandalous backdoor recruitments were all adjudged regrettable consequences of his poor health.

    But Buhari has been back nearly six months now and any hope that he might use his renewed strength to clean up the mess in the Presidency is fading fast. You can’t blame Aisha.

    It was after Buhari’s return that cemeteries across the country celebrated the appointments of the dead to Federal Boards; it was after his return that Abdulrasheed Maina’s crooked readmission into the civil service was uncovered and yet nothing happened.

    It was months after Buhari’s return that a report indicting former SGF, Babachir Lawal and former NIA DG, Ayo Oke was submitted to the government and nothing happened. No, something happened: the President filled the security hierarchy with appointments that would embarrass even the worst ethnic irredentist

    It was after Buhari’s return that long queues resurfaced in petrol stations, and that was after his minister of state, Ibe Kachikwu and the GMD of NNPC, Maikanti Baru, lounged at each other’s throat over allegations of fraud and insubordination; it was after Buhari’s return that 73 citizens were murdered in Benue and we’re still trying to figure out whether it was a “communal clash” or an “invasion by the Islamic State”. Yet the victims are being told to accommodate the aggressors in God’s name.

    What should Aisha do, seriously? She has criticised the health system, vented her frustration about the cabal inside the Presidency and demurred from any public activity for months now.

    And now on top of the quiet misery she has endured trying to reclaim her husband – and perhaps, the country – Obasanjo has dropped a bombshell, which would be suicidal for her to retweet.

    But what can Aisha do? We voted for her husband, not for the First Lady. If this were Eleanor Roosevelt she would brush aside her

    husband’s inadequacies, assume the role of First-Lady-in-Chief and perhaps start a newspaper column. But Buhari is not impaired and Nigeria is not Roosevelt’s America of the 1930’s.

    If Aisha were Lucy Kibaki, she would slap her way through the intransigent cabal and infuse her husband with steel to break free from the gang. But she’s careful not to be the suicide bomber they labeled her and, in any case, Nigeria is not Kibaki’s Kenya.

    What can Aisha do? Not much else I’m afraid. After the letter by Obasanjo, the godfather of third term, it seems to me that January 23 would be the day when Aisha’s worst fear came true. May 29, 2019 may have come early.

    Will a tweet in time save nine? The answer is blowing in the wind.

    Ishiekwene is the Managing Director/Editor-In-Chief of The Interview

    and member of the board of the Global Editors Network

     

  • Letter to Mrs. Aisha Buhari [2] – Godwin Etakibuebu

    By Godwin Etakibuebu

    “ME’-NE, ME’-NE, TE’-KEL, U-PHAR’-SIN”. It is interpreted thus:

    Mene – God has numbered the days of your reign and brought it to an end

    Tekel – You have been weighed on the scales and found wanting.

    Peres – Your Kingdom is divided and given to the Medes and Persians

    Madam, above is not Urhobo language or its proverb but a verse taken from the Holy Bible book of Daniel 5:25. It is most likely to be Aramaic language; introduced by the Assyrian as the lingua franca to supplant Akkadian language, as the spoken language of the general population of both Assyrian and all over Mesopotamia. Permit me to tell you the story behind the quote before we go to its applicability on events of today’s Nigeria; where your most respected husband presides as Executive President.

    Bel-shaz’-zar was the son of the King Neb-u-chad-nez’zar of Babylon the Great; a powerful Empire that ruled all over the World and he succeeded the father [Nebuchadnezzar] when he died as king over Babylon. In the euphoria of that success, he was carried away and started doing what annoyed the God of Heaven. In one of those festivities, a man’s finger [the King saw only finger of man – without seeing the man] wrote above quoted over the candlestick upon the plaister of the wall of the king’s palace.

    The king was worried and he needed interpretation and the only person that could interpret it throughout the Kingdom was Daniel. Daniel was invited in by the King, and by the Spirit of God dwelling in Daniel, he interpreted it as reproduced above.

    Madam, there is no gainsaying that the interpretation was worrisome to the King and all those that listened and it [interpretation] remained a lesson in perpetuity that no human being should play God. That very night Daniel interpreted the handwriting was the same night that King Bel-shaz’-zar was slain. The first lesson we must learn is that the King did not learn from history because if he has done, he would have escaped the catastrophe.

    Obviously, he did not learn from the mistakes of his father; who was equally carried away by what he termed to be his personal achievement in creating the great Babylonian Empire, without giving God the glory. God punished him by turning him to animal, dwelling amongst beasts in the forest for seven years. His father; King Neb-u-chad-nez’zar, was equally warned by God in a dream, about the calamity that could come against every ruler who ascribed monopoly of wisdom to himself and refused to take advice from those He [God] planted around him. It was the same Daniel that also interpreted that dream to the father then.

    Madam, l am going into this detail in relating this story and analyzing same because of your pedigree. Within the past two years, you have been able to prove that you hate injustice, double-dealing, fraudulent activities and other vices. You proved that courageously outstanding ability to be vocal in defending what is just and right. You have done this, not only at the risk of your matrimony, but that of your life because the few things you have voiced out publicly could cause unimaginable collateral damage to your mortal person.

    I told you last week [in that first letter] that this exercise [writing to you] “is all about the salvation of your husband” and urge you to “treat most urgently”. The need for this observation and the urgent call for your action have not diminished. Instead, the challenge of rescuing your husband from the cabal we identified last week [in that letter] is becoming more tantamount on daily basis. Let us look at few of such events before we draw the curtain on this letter writing venture.

    One, l told you last week that it is God, answering Nigerians prayer, that sustain your husband alive and l am not too sure that God showed this uncommon mercy for him to go for a second tenure. I am of the opinion that God preserved his life to finish this one tenure and retire home to Daura to live his life peacefully with you, the children and grandchildren. Ipso facto, “hold your husband and walk away” to Daura, in the language of Frank Edoho; that former MTN’s presenter of who wants to be a millionaire.

    Two, l told you last week that those persons who want your husband to declare for a second tenure, under whatever guise, do not have the interest of Muhammadu Buhari at heart. Such persons, under whatever name; be it cabal, loyalists or Buharists, are embarking on such venture purely for their selfish interests and gains. They are exploiting the gains that the name Buhari can bring from the Nigeria national till. God forbid, if anything happens to your dear husband on the process of engaging in another rigorous campaign or in prosecuting the excruciating exercise of another four years in government, these people would be the first to say “his place, let another take”. You have the onerous responsibility to outwit them Madam.

    Three, l told you last week how a good actor quits the stage when ovation is highest. Nobody would forget in hurry the ovation and goodwill across the Nigerian landscape that heralded your husband to power in 2015. “Sai Baba” was really meant to be “true father”. Today, that goodwill and accolade have been adequately squandered. The ovation that heralded him to the theatre stage is gone. Why can’t he leave the stage, at the end of this tenure, before the remnant of the ovation is given an inglorious burial? Madam, you have that God-given assignment, as his only and legitimate wife, to save your soul-mate please.

    Four, l told you last week that all those pushing and shoving him for continuity are parasites plants and you know what that means in botany. The parasite comes on a very healthy three and within a few months, the host-three dies and the reason for this is nothing but the fact that the parasite feeds entirely on the nutrient of the mother-three. That is what all the members of the cabal are to your husband.

    Five, l told you last week that these same people that want him to continue are the same people that have messed your husband up in these past three years, so to say. What Nigerians called President Buhari’s blunder since arriving the scene, may not really be what he designed to achieve. However, for different reasons, which included ill-health, over dependency on subordinates of shady characters and for not knowing that the buck stops on his table, as the 33rd President of the United States; Harry S Truman, rightfully expressed, my dear President Buhari has been made the fallen guy [or the sucker] by the cabal.

    You are the only last person around this man [your husband] that is still standing. That must have been the reason why you are adorned with such level of wisdom, knowledge, understanding and bravery to speak out by your Creator. The Great and Wise Creator must have positioned you around him to be his messiah for this very crucial time in his life.

    Madam, the Bible quoted in the beginning of this letter talked of God “weighing the performances of King Bel-shaz’-zar on scale and found it to be wanting” after He had numbered the days before deciding to take it [the kingdom] away. This is very vital a lesson in evaluation of kings and exercise of their performances. Your husband is a King over Nigeria; de-facto and de-jury, by God’s appointment. It stands therefore, that the same everlasting God that appointed him as President [King] over Nigeria “rules in affairs of men”, according to Daniel 4:17.

    God; the Most High, keep a very close and keen supervision over all those he appointed as leaders and he brings them into accountability of their everyday performances. This is where and when he weighs their performances on His own scale. What is the lesson we can pull from this story?

    Madam, let us evaluate a few things in this APC government, which unfortunately, your husband is heading.

    Nigerians are not forgetting your audacious revelation that the money budgeted to the Aso Rock Clinic was not used for the purposes it was budgeted for as there were no Panadol, no Syringe in the Clinic while the X-Ray machine there was as dead as dodo. This was despite the Billion budgeted to the place. Has the President done anything about this confirmed revelation, coming from no other person but you, till date? Such display of corruption absolutism plays itself out on daily basis in President Buhari’s Nigeria.

    Take a look at Abdulrasheed Maina, the alleged Pension thief. With all the scandal around and about him, which includes the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice; appointed by your husband, going to Court and obtaining an injunction against the Nigerian Senate not to probe the way the alleged thief was smuggled back into the Federal Civil Service while this alleged heinous crime is still hanging on him. Is Mr President not supposed to defend his integrity in fighting corruption [even if it is in pretense] in this matter?

    Madam, his [your husband] Chief of Staff has been alleged of obtaining amount of money within the region of N500, 000,000 from MTN for some shady deals. Our President did not say a word about it till today. In the same vain, he defended astutely his former Secretary to the Government of the Federation who was alleged to have stolen money meant to bring succor to those internally displaced people in the North/East trouble, until the Vice President Committee nailed him.

    Time shall fail me should l embark on chronology of corruption and nepotism cases taking place under your husband’s strict supervision in this exercise. Suffice to conclude that majority of Nigerians have lost confidence in his ability to deliver them from hell to paradise. He has nothing good to bring to the table anymore, so it seems.

    They are saying therefore that “it is time for Baba to go and rest”. Complete the peoples’ clarion call please, as you take our beloved President away from the Villa to Daura in Katsina State, for a befitting retirement on 29 of May, 2019. God help you Madam.

    Godwin Etakibuebu, a veteran journalist, wrote from Lagos.

     

  • Aisha Buhari shares anti-Buhari videos, gets commendations from Nigerians

    The wife of President Muhammadu Buhari, Aisha, on Friday shared videos of senators criticising her husband’s government.

    Mrs. Buhari, on her verified Instagram page, reposted videos by two senators, Isah Misau and Ben Bruce, accusing her husband of appointing incompetent persons because they “belong to the cabal.”

    The first video from OakTV that Mrs. Buhari reposted showed Mr. Misau at the floor of the Senate Thursday condemning Mr. Buhari for appointing “an incompetent person” as the Director General of the National Intelligence Agency, NIA.

    Repost : @oaktvonline

    A post shared by H.E Mrs Aisha Muhammadu Buhari (@aishambuhari) on

    Mr. Misau accused the president of “doing nothing” since he was elected, adding “the president has not taken anything to change this country.”

    Mr. Misau also said 50 per cent of the ministers in Mr. Buhari’s administration “are not performing”.

    The second video, also from OakTV, showed Mr. Bruce, who supported Mr. Misau’s stance saying Nigeria is becoming lawless.

    “We either have a government or we don’t…” he said.

    Repost : @oaktvonline

    A post shared by H.E Mrs Aisha Muhammadu Buhari (@aishambuhari) on

    The third video showed Mr. Misau saying the government has only three months to correct the anomalies, saying “it’s as if the president is not in charge.”

    He advised the leadership of the National Assembly to have a “one –on- one” with the president.

    The end of the third video showed former governor of Nasarawa State, Abdullahi Adamu, protesting the language used by his colleague on the president.

    Most of those who commented on the postings commended the president’s wife for “her courage” to be on the side of the people despite her position. Others even urged her to join politics.

  • The hypocrisy of Buhari in governance – Godwin Etakibuebu

    Letter to Mrs Aisha Buhari

    Madam, this open letter to you is all about the salvation of your husband and treat most urgently. The urgency attached to it is taken from a wise proverb from the Urhobo people of the Niger Delta region. The proverb says: “Erako ro chewhru o’nyu urhuru ro orovworo o”. Fret not Madam, for l must interpret it to you. It simple means that the dog which is destined to go astray [or lost], does not harken [or listen] to the voice of the owner.

    Your husband has become a sort of wonder within the last two and half years or thereabout. Yes, a wonder but not on the positive side of history. He is being less understood on daily basis. Interpretation of who Muhammadu Buhari really is, as human being and a leader, is becoming more complicated on daily basis. Of course, we are aware that the science of knowing what a man thinks in his heart has not metamorphosed yet, but sometimes we try to read the language of body movement in attempting to decode what next step a particular person, albeit a leader, is about to take.

    Your husband’s body language; which was the only instrument of gauging his thought within the first six months of coming to power, has been permanently lost to the “thickness of the forest of the Aso Villa” where he had allowed the legacy of the all the other predators swallowed up his authority. Madam, you know the predators we are talking about because you once mentioned them accurately – the Tigers, Leopards, the Wolves and the Hyenas.

    Ironically, these lesser animals in fearfulness, compared to the King Lion [that was how you described it the other day], thinking that they would be evicted from the notorious Nigerian Animal Kingdom when the Lion King woke up from his palatial sleeping domain in London, fortified themselves, awaiting the arrival of the Lion King. The Lion King did wake up from its sleeping bed in the United Kingdom, arrived the Zoo headquarters in the Presidential Villa in Abuja but with lesser vigor.

    The predators; the Tigers, the Leopards, the Wolves and the Hyenas saw a weaker King Lion arriving from London. They took a firm decision against the King Lion and swallowed him up. Of course, the King Lion is still very visible in the Villa, pretending calling the shots. But reality is that its decision making mechanism has been taken away from him and taken into a coven where these predators have total command of authority.

    In doing and achieving this feat, the predators cleverly avoided your area and domain of volatility. Madam, don’t forget that these “animals called human being” [that is the name former President Olusegun Obasanjo called them in one of his books] in the Villa know you very well. Hope you are not forgetting in hurry that they once referred to you as “that suicide bomber from Adamawa State” in one of their conversations when your husband was hospitalised in London? These people, still talking of “these animal called man”, being wiser people in their treachery, formed themselves into a very powerful “insulator” and thereafter “isolated” your husband from you.

    This is where the game has become more dangerous because at the moment, through the manipulation of this cabal [oh, that is another name they are called], your husband is running faster and quicker out of his mind. Some Pastors would title their sermon, if this discussion on your husband were to be subject for a Sunday’s preaching, “Yoke of manipulation” [hope you will not ask Pastor Tunde Bakare about the sermon’s title?]. Yes, your beloved husband is being manipulated to do what, he otherwise, wouldn’t have done – the way some of us see it anyway. This is where he has become that proverbial “dog which is destined to go astray that never harkens to the voice of the owner”.

    Madam, by the statement of your husband on the day he was sworn-in as President on May 29, 2015, where he said he “belongs to no one”, so many Nigerians are now finding it difficult to identify whom to report his latest embarrassing actions to. The difficulty of knowing whom to meet is made more complex by the fact that the Cabal [those animal predators] that captured him are almost faceless in one hand while in the other hand your husband is pretending that he is fully in charge of governance in Nigeria. This is the real debacle that begs for quick solution.

    In another school of thought however, wisdom is dictating that we should report him to you because you are the wife. Given God’s injunction that what “He has put together, let no one put asunder”, according to the Holy Bible, you own him {Buhari] one hundred percent. But if this is juxtaposed against the background of his pronouncement in Germany sometimes ago that you belonged to his kitchen and the “other room”, it creates a devastative dilemma of knowing if he would ever listen to you. This makes it a walk in adventurism between the devil and the blue sea.

    Yet a decision of who should [or ought to] be the rightful owner of President Buhari between yourself [Mrs Aisha Buhari] and the Predators that are leading him to the gallows, must be made. It is for the reason of this that we, in this exercise, have chosen to write to you, accepting and believing that you own him more than any other person on earth today. God joined you and this man together, ipso facto, it has become a matter of necessity, even of life and death, for you to take charge of your husband by rescuing him from the terrorism of those Aso Villa Predators

    We started this discussion by saying that the whole exercise is about the salvation of your husband and we would urge you to take this assignment very seriously because if you fail to intervene in doing the needful, the end result of some of his present action might bring shame or regrets on you. Let us go to those things quickly.

    First, the decision of taking the challenge of second tenure, come 2019, which is gaining ground is not his own. It is the decision of those that l call “the real suicide bombers” bombers around him. They are the Cabal. They are also called the Buharists. They are well known to you Madam but permit me to tell you something about these people. Yes, they are “suicide bombers” except that, unlike those kids/girls suicide bombers from the North/East that tied the suicide vest around themselves, this dangerous group of people would never tie suicide vest around themselves but instead tie it around your husband.

    They are perfect in their evil work that while they are the full beneficiaries of their plans, your husband is the pre-arranged fallen guy. They are the ones shouting loudest that it is only Buhari that can do the work of rescuing Nigeria as such he must come out for the second term. God forbids bad thing, if anything should happen to this man along the line of this voyage into futility of life, these same people [the El-Rufai, the Abubakar Malami, the Kingibe, Abba Kyari, Ibikunle Amosu, the Rochas Okorocha and scores of others] would be the first to say that “his place let another take.”

    Madam, you and your children would be left to wear the shoe with the pinching point of the shoe biting you harder. Hold the hand of your husband at the end of this tenure, and run away far from Abuja to Daura in Katsina State, for a befitting life-time rest. God has been good enough to your husband by delivering him from death. I may not be too sure that God delivered him from death because of a second term but instead, in my own limited wisdom though, to finish one-tenure and go to enjoy the remaining days of his life with you and the children in contentment. There is no any glory on earth that second tenure would add to your life Madam, but rush for a second tenure could bring gory to you. The choice is yours but l will urge you to walk away, in the words of Frank Edoho; a one-time television presenter of “who wants to be a millionaire”.

    Two, his performances from May 2015, as president, has fallen below average, if the truth must be told. It is bad enough to be an average student because my village headmaster in the early 50s told us that “there is no hope for any average pupil because he belongs to no category”. If it is bad enough for the average student, where therefore is the accolade of the one that is below average? President Buhari failed all indexes of governance this time around. This is the obvious facts of evaluation, ditto the truth and reality of our times. Either at the economic front, the test of nepotism, political evaluation and all other perimeter of government scrutiny, your husband remains a colossal failure.

    Former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s judgment on your husband performances in governance is not far from what l have just presented. In the first place, it is Obasanjo that told Nigerians that “Buhari is not hot in the economy”, and a few days ago he added, “Nigerians are not feeling Buhari’s CHANGE” [capital mine for emphasis]. And this is a man [Obasanjo] that endorsed and fought every inch of the battle to install your husband in 2015. There is nothing left for Buhari that he is bringing to the table for Nigeria. He should therefore leave before the ovation is totally buried. And it is your responsibility to take him away Madam, please.

    I shall send you the second and final letter next week, God’s willing and l shall be telling you more things why you must save the situation. I shall also reveal to you how the Mafia around him, those “suicide bombers” or Cabal, were the real culprit of all the calamities being credited to your husband’s account for now.

    Till next week Madam, please take care of yourself amongst those Sharks, Tigers, Leopards, Wolves and Hyenas at the Villa because you understand their wicked thoughts toward you. God will shield and protect you at all times.

    Godwin Etakibuebu, a veteran journalist, wrote from Lagos.