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  • Governorship/Assembly elections: Buhari, wife, vote in Daura

    Governorship/Assembly elections: Buhari, wife, vote in Daura

    President Muhammadu Buhari and his wife, Aisha, on Saturday joined hundreds of other electorate to exercise their franchise at the polling unit 003 Kofar Baru III, Gidan Niyam, Daura, Katsina State.

    The president, accompanied by his wife, arrived the polling unit at about 8.00a.m, where both of them were cleared and issued ballot papers by the unit presiding officer, Aliyu Abdullahi.

    The president and his wife, with the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) numbers 187 and 182 respectively, voted at exactly 8.08 a.m. to elect their preferred candidates for Katsina State governorship and House of Assembly legislators.

    The duo had performed similar civic responsibility during the Feb. 23 Presidential and National elections at the same polling unit.

  • Elections 2019: Buhari, Aisha vote in Daura

    President Muhammadu Buhari and his wife, Aisha, voted in Daura, Katsina State in the Presidential and National Assembly Elections.

    The wife, Aisha, voted before the president at 8.06 a.m., while the president voted at 8.10 a.m.
    at the Kofar Baru, Sarkin Yara “A” ward in Daura.

    After voting, the president expressed satisfaction with the state of affairs and said he was optismistic of winning.

  • Buhari, Aisha arrive Katsina for presidential poll

    President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday arrived in Katsina en route Daura, his hometown, to participate in the rescheduled presidential and National Assembly elections holding on Saturday.

    The presidential aircraft conveying the President, his wife, Aisha, and some of his aides landed at Umar Musa Yar’Adua International Airport, Katsina, about 3.25p.m.

    The President was received at the airport by Governor Aminu Masari of Katsina State, the Minister of State for Aviation, Senator Hadi Sirika, members of the National Assembly from Katsina State, heads of Federal Government agencies in the state and other government functionaries.

    The President left the airport in a presidential helicopter for Daura at about 3.50p.m.

    While in Daura, Buhari, the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress in Saturday’s elections, is expected to join other eligible voters at Kofar Baru 003 polling unit, Sarkin Yara Ward, Daura, Katsina State, to cast his vote.

    Buhari, on February 14, rounded off his nationwide campaign in Katsina and later proceeded to Daura for the February 16 presidential and National Assembly elections before it was shifted by the Independent National Electoral Commission to February 23.

    The governorship, House of Assembly, and Federal Capital Territory Area Council elections were also shifted from March 2 to March 9.

  • 2019: Oshiomhole, Tinubu absent as Buhari inaugurates Aisha’s campaign team

    2019: Oshiomhole, Tinubu absent as Buhari inaugurates Aisha’s campaign team

    The national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Adams Oshiomhole and its national leader Bola Tinubu were conspicuously absent on Thursday afternoon as President Muhammadu Buhari inaugurated a campaign team formed and led by his wife, Aisha.

    Recall that there have been reports of how the president’s wife, Buhari, in an unprecedented move, announced the campaign teamwhich will work alongside the official Presidential Campaign Council.

    The campaign team is described as women and youth campaign team for the 2019 election.

    The inauguration, which is holding at the Banquet Hall of the State House Presidential Villa, Abuja, began some few minutes after 3 p.m.

    The team to be inaugurated is chaired by the president’s wife, Aisha, and co-chaired by the wife of the vice president, Dolapo Osinbajo.

    Recall that President Buhari chairs the official APC Presidential Campaign Council. The council is co-chaired by Tinubu and they are assisted by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo and Oshiomhole.

    Recall also that Aisha Buhari had publicly criticised the APC and Oshiomhole over the handling of the parties primaries which led to massive defections to rival political parties across the country.

    Details later…

  • Buhari goes tough on Aisha, asks her to show evidence of cabals in his government

    Buhari goes tough on Aisha, asks her to show evidence of cabals in his government

    President Muhammadu Buhari has demanded evidence from his wife who claims that his government is being run by a cabal.

    He made this demand in an interview with Voice of America, Hausa.

    The President’s wife, Aisha Buhari, during an interview with British Broadcasting Service, Hausa, had first alleged that her husband was being controlled by a cabal.

    She had said, “The President does not know 45 out of 50 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.”

    She had threatened not to vote for him if things continued that way.

    The President had dismissed that statement by saying that his wife belonged in the kitchen and also in the “other room.”

    However, during a summit organised for women by a political group in Abuja recently, Aisha again alleged that two powerful men were holding her husband’s government hostage.

    During the VOA chat, a clip of which was posted by a journalist on Twitter, the interviewer asked Buhari to formally respond to his wife’s allegations.

    “That’s her business and it shows I am a true democrat by allowing everybody to have an opinion.

    “I challenge those alleging to show single evidence,” the President countered.

     

  • Buhari's wife, Aisha begs Nigerians to speak well of the country

    President Muhammadu Buhari’s wife, Aisha, has urged Nigerians to speak well of the country.

    She made the call during the 2018 Episcopal Harvest of the Anglican Communion at the Cathedral of Holy Trinity, Gwagwalada, Abuja, on Saturday.

    Mrs. Buhari, who was honoured with Deborah Award, was represented by Grace Chamah, wife of the former military Governor of Katsina and Kebbi states.

    Mrs. Buhari observed that “there is power in the spoken word, the power of life and death, Nigerians should therefore make positive declarations about their country.” She enjoined them to pray for the nation’s leaders, to enable them make the right decisions for the betterment of our country.

    “As prayers heal the land, so do bad declarations bring hardship” she said, imploring Nigerians to embrace peace so that stability and prosperity will prevail.

    She thanked the Diocese for recognising her with the award, saying as a mother of the nation, she has a duty to impart her humanity on those that are less fortunate with her humanitarian activities.

    Speaking earlier, the Right Rev. Moses Bukpe Tabwaye, Bishop of the Gwagwalada Diocese and host of the event, said Mrs. Buhari has impacted in many areas that affect the less privileged, especially women and children and that her hands of mercy have reached all Nigerians, irrespective of faith or ethnicity. He urged her to continue the good work she is doing.

    He commended Mrs. Buhari and hoped other well-meaning Nigerians will take a cue from her.

    Deborah Award is named after the prophetess Deborah, who is noted for her courage, wisdom and leadership.

     

  • PHOTOS: Buhari, Aisha, daughter leave Nigeria for China

    President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday departed for China accompanied by his wife, Aisha Buhari and one of his daughters.

    The presidency had on Thursday released a statement that the president would be attending the 7th Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation scheduled to hold from September 3 to 4 in Beijing.

    In the statement signed by Garba Shehu, the president’s Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Buhari’s first engagement in Beijing would be an interactive session with the Nigerian Community in China at the Nigerian Embassy.

    Before the formal opening of the FOCAC Summit, he said the President in his capacity as current Chair of ECOWAS, would deliver remarks at the High-Level Dialogue between Chinese and African leaders, business representatives and African entrepreneurs.

    He added that the Nigerian President is scheduled to join President Jinping and other African leaders for the opening and roundtable sessions of the 2018 FOCAC Beijing Summit with the theme “Towards an even Stronger China-Africa Community with a Shared Future.”

     

     

  • Buhari has become Nigeria’s “Clown-In-Chief” – Aisha Yesufu

    Aisha Yesufu, co-convener of BringBackOurGirls, BBOG, advocacy group has said President Muhammadu Buhari should sit-up and be the “Commander-In-Chief” he was elected to be.

    She said this while reacting to a statement by former Defence Minister, Gen. T.Y. Danjuma, where he asked Nigerians to defend themselves against what he termed “ethnic cleansing.”

    Danjuma, who spoke over the weekend gave the advice while reacting to killings by herdsmen across the country.

    Reacting to Danjuma’s advice, Yesufu stressed that Buhari has turned himself into “a clown-In-Chief.”

    She wrote: “Dear President Muhammadu Buhari, now that your fellow General has spoken would you now sit up and be the Commander-In-Chief you are supposed to be and not the Clown-In-Chief you have turned yourself into?

    “Buhari, do you want to lead us to another civil war? When government is not forthcoming on its primary responsibility which is the protection of lives and properties, people are forced to take up the responsibility and that can lead to chaos.”

  • Funky Mallam finds love again, remarries after divorce

    Funky Mallam finds love again, remarries after divorce

    The name Saheed Mohammed may not be familiar, but when anyone in the Nigerian entertainment circle mentions Funky Mallam, you immediately know who is being referred to.The half-Fulani, half-Hausa, Bayero University Mass Communications graduate has remarried three years after his divorce.

     

    He took to his Instagram page to share photos from their wedding and wrote:”No words will or express gratitude to you all that made my wedding electrifying and colorful. Infact, let me just say a big THANK YOU and shut up”.

    Last year he revealed in an interview what led to him divorcing his estranged wife.

    According to him:” Yea, it’s true and it’s just a problem of incompatibility. She’s from Adamawa State and we were both married for three years and we have a son together but all of a sudden she changed”.

    Amazingly, his new wife bears the same name, Aisha with his estranged wife.

     

  • Updated :’I did not receive any SUV gift from IGP,’ Aisha Buhari denies Misau’s claim

    Wife of the President, Aisha Buhari, has denied claims that she received two Sports Utility Vehicles (SUVs) from the Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris.

    Aisha on Thursday said there was no truth in the claim that he received some vehicles from the Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Ibrahim Idris.
    The lawmaker representing the Bauchi Central Senatorial District, Isa Misau, had on Wednesday alleged that Idris gave two Sports Utility Vehicles to Mrs. Buhari.

    While appearing before the Senate Ad Hoc Committee on Investigation of Various Allegations Levelled Against the Police, the Inspector General of Police and the Police Service Commission, Misau said details of how Idris gave Mrs. Buhari the two SUV were contained in the documents the police boss submitted to court in the suit instituted against him by the Minister of Justice and Attorney General of the Federation, Mr. Abubakar Malami, on behalf of the Federal Government.

    He said, “I still have some contract papers that the IG himself submitted to the court, where the First Lady through her aide-de-camp requested a Toyota Hiace and a Sienna jeep. The same day that the ADC wrote, the IG minuted that she should be given two jeeps. And it is not part of the appropriation. If you look at the appropriation, there is nowhere they said the First Lady should be given two jeeps.”

    But Mrs. Buhari in a statement by her Director of Information, Suleiman Haruna, said there was no truth in the allegation.
    The statement read, “Our attention has been drawn to the news being widely circulated, and attributed to a member of the Senate, that two SUVs from the Inspector-General of Police were given to the Wife of the President, Mrs. Aisha Muhammadu Buhari personally.
    “The Wife of the President wants to make it clear that since the assumption of office of her husband as President of Nigeria, she did not receive these mentioned vehicles.
    “Furthermore, the vehicles she is still using belong to the family and were the ones used during the campaign for 2015 elections including the one for her entourage.”

    Misau made the allegation when he appeared before the Senate ad hoc committee investigating the allegations he made against Idris, the Police and the Police Service Commission.