{"id":9026,"date":"2016-10-15T13:55:28","date_gmt":"2016-10-15T12:55:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/?p=9026"},"modified":"2016-10-15T13:55:28","modified_gmt":"2016-10-15T12:55:28","slug":"aisha-buhari-spoke-for-nigerians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/aisha-buhari-spoke-for-nigerians\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Aisha Buhari Spoke For Nigerians’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Aisha Buhari Spoke For Nigerians<\/p>\n

The Centre for African Resources, Research and Development (CARRD) notes with dismay, the recent media altercations-with attendant global political and gender-tilted reverberations-between President Muhammadu Buhari and his wife, Mrs Aisha Buhari.<\/p>\n

Right in the face of global and Nigerian media, President Buhari said his wife belongs to the \u201ckitchen, the living room, and the \u2018other\u2019 room\u201d. This was a retort to an interview Mrs Buhari granted the BBC Hausa Service, in which she chided her husband for allowing \u201cstrange\u201d people into his cabinet and inner circle; people she accused of hijacking and destabilizing his administration, and incurring the wrath of millions of his loyalist-voters on his behalf. She also threatened not to campaign for him like she did in 2015, should he decide to seek re-election in 2019.<\/p>\n

CARRD shares the sentiments expressed by Mrs Buhari. While we agree that the President has the inalienable right to respond to whatever comments his wife makes, within and without the \u201ckitchen and \u2018other rooms\u2019\u201d, we disagree with him over his choice of words, and the global and political environment where he said them.<\/p>\n

President Buhari made those comments – which millions within and without Nigeria have interpreted to be misogynist, sexist and \u201cTrump-like\u201d – beside arguably the most powerful woman in the world, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, to diplomatically-veiled consternation from her. CARRD is tempted to ask what the President and his team are doing seeking economic, security and political assistance from a country whose leader is also supposed to \u201cbelong to the kitchen et al\u201d.<\/p>

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CARRD also invites President Buhari to remember that his now \u201ckitchen-belonging wife\u201d was of inestimable political help to him and his party during the 2015 elections, mobilizing millions of women\u2019s votes for them, and defending her husband from misogynist and sexist accusations from the now-opposition. However, when she made the comments to the BBC about issues millions of Nigerians are honestly, but secretly and quietly worried about, she was immediately demoted and banished permanently to the \u201ckitchen and other rooms\u201d! How convenient?!<\/p>\n

Indeed, Aisha Buhari\u2019s cries of strange bed fellows in President Buhari\u2019s inner circle and cabinet may not be far from the truth, with claims already in the public domain of the right officials and appointees being side-lined and pushed to the power fringes, while unappointed, unnomenclatured kinsmen and old friends of the President seem to be calling the shots, many a time to the political detriment of the President himself. These power tussles, and the consequent policy crises these have sparked, have taken a heavy toll on Nigerians, sucking off huge funds, opportunities and development potentials off Nigerians, especially millions of young people who voted President Buhari to power, at his fourth attempt.<\/p>\n

While Mr. President is doing a yeoman\u2019s job fighting corruption, we at CARRD wish to remind him that key members of his inner circle have been publicly accused of corruption, with facts, figures and dates to boot, to absolute silence, and sometimes outright denial by him. Indeed, as against his Inaugural Address vow, President Buhari now seems to belong to some particular persons, some of whom seem to be his worst enemies, judging by the catastrophic policy, media and attitudinal errors he seems to be committing in alarmingly high frequency lately.<\/p>\n

CARRD advises President Buhari to draw his wife out of the \u201ckitchen and other rooms\u201d and address the issues raised by her in the interview, which represent the concerns of millions of Nigerians who don\u2019t have as much access to him as her. When the chips are down, he belongs to her, and she belongs to him first and foremost, before us all.
\nIsmail Ibraheem PhD
\nChair, CARRD
\nSenior Lecturer
\nDepartment of Mass Communication
\nUniversity of Lagos<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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