Aisha Buhari Tells President Aides To Serve Nigerians Not Her Husband

On Saturday, the wife of the President, Mrs. Aisha Buhari, pleaded with politicians who may be selected to work with President Muhammadu Buhari and all his political associates to be careful the way they portray themselves.
She said such people should be aware of the fact that it took her husband 12 years before getting to the position he currently occupies and hence, they should tread with caution.
Mrs. Buhari said this during an “Appreciation Dinner” she hosted in honour of the All Progressives Congress’ women and youths at the old Banquet Hall of the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
She said, “There was nothing that people did not say about the past administration. It is not former President Goodluck Jonathan that is not good but the people around him.

“So, the people that are going to be around President Buhari have to be very careful because this election ended peacefully.
The President’s wife also promised that the current administration would run an open government.
Taking a look at her husband’s 12-year journey towards returning as President, Mrs. Buhari said her active participation in the last electioneering made the difference.
She said she did not take part in the campaigns of her husband’s first three shots at the Presidency because that was how those who surrounded him at that time wanted it.
This time, she said it was a national leader of the APC and a former Lagos State Governor, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, who encouraged her to play an active role.
She also faulted claims that made the rounds ahead of the elections on the alleged gender-insensitivity of her husband, saying they were lies.
She presented Buhari as the pillar of her success despite the generation gap between the two of them, she said it was the President who encouraged her to go to school.
She thanked Nigerian women and youths for the roles they played towards the success of the last election, saying she was aware of their steadfastness during the electioneering up until the elections proper.
These efforts, she said, contributed significantly to her husband’s success story.
Mrs. Buhari regretted that the number of women that made it to the National Assembly during the current dispensation declined drastically from the number obtainable during the last regime. She said the present figure was not fair to women and they felt they are not represented.
Mrs. Buhari said a huge step had to be done to see to the high rate of divorce in the North, the disturbing experience of widows in the South and the harassment of female students in the nation’s higher institutions.

Source: Vanguard