The photograph
of the
presidential
candidate of the
All Progressives
Congress, Maj.
Gen. Muhammadu
Buhari (retd.),
at the Lagos
State
interdenominatio
nal thanksgiving
service standing
with his running
mate, Prof. Yemi
Osinbajo; the
General Overseer
of the Redeemed
Christian Church
of God, Pastor
Enoch Adeboye,
and Governor
Babatunde
Fashola on the
front row says
something about
the APC
presidential
candidate.
There have been
murmurs about
his donning a fez
cap in church –
that he is a
Muslim
disrespecting
Christian
tradition. For
me, his
forgetting to
take off his cap
shows he has yet
to fully master
the nuances and
rituals of spaces
he is treading for
the sake of his
political
ambition. If I
were a Christian,
I would pardon
him. What is not
so easily
dismissable in the
photo-op,
however, is much
more telling than
his cap. In the
picture, all the
aforementioned
men had their
wives by their
sides except
Buhari.
For a man who
preaches
“change” and
desires to rule a
country made up
of men and
women in almost
equal halves, I
wonder why he
finds the
anomaly of an
“invisible wife”
wholesome.
Interestingly,
this is not the
first time that
Mrs Aisha Buhari
would be left
behind in her
husband’s
aspiration.

Does it mean Mrs Buhari is not in support of Her husband?