The Unaired Part of Mrs Buhari's Interview

By Jaafar Jaafar

At the heat of the intense pressure mounted on the BBC to stop airing the remaining part of the controversial Aisha Buhari interview a few days ago, I had the privilege of listening to the interview before it was fully aired.

My good friend, the Head of the Abuja bureau of the BBC, Naziru Mikailu, invited me to his office for comment on the interview, and directed that it be played to me before recording my comment.

Listening to the president's wife passionately expressing herself on how her husband runs Nigeria left me cringing. Reading between the lines, I realized Mrs. Buhari was sending SOS to Nigerians to save her bewitched, servile husband from the clutches of the Aso Rock witches, popularly known as "Aso cabal".

The Buhari I knew before election was not the obtuse person we have today as president. The Buhari I promoted during campaign had no nepotic, despotic or robotic tendencies. The Buhari I voted for was not this pliable. Forgive me if my knowledge of him was superficial.

Aisha Buhari might have pitched the nation a curve ball, but her interview is actually a deafening echo of what we've saying for ages about her husband. When I first raised alarm on the dangers of the influence of numero uno of the cabal, Mamman Daura, on the Buhari administration barely three weeks after Buhari took oath of office, I received all manner of insults and invective. Today a lot of my predictions have come to reality.

But if actually the Mamman Daura cabal is the one running this country, then it appears to be a very unintelligent lot whose mastery does not go beyond the art of nepotism and crafts of plagiarism.

This cabal has kept both the nation and the president under spell, leaving the economy to slide into recession, our currency to crash beyond salvation and impunity to reign supreme. This cabal suffocated a mega political party Nigerians from all regions laboured and united to build.

It always saddens me to realize that our president has been turned into a puppet, managed by some half-witted puppeteers, who are majorly dextrose at swinging his legs to Europe, America and Asia, stretching his hand to perpetuate nepotism or opening his mouth to goof.

From ministers to the heads of agencies, there is either portfolio misplacement or elevation of incompetence by this cabal right from the outset of the present administration. This very same cabal gave plum appointments to the progeny of the famous Kaduna mafia, some of whom even served the immediate-past administration or openly campaigned for the PDP.

A leading member of the cabal, who is the present Chief of Staff to the president, Abba Kyari, was appointed by former President Goodluck Jonathan as member of the Ribadu-led Petroleum Revenue Task Force in 2012. A year earlier, Kyari had turned down Buhari's offer to serve as the secretary of one of CPC presidential campaign committees -- perhaps because Buhari had little chance of winning.

Take the case of Sokoto ministerial nominee for instance. Any loyal party man will not be happy to see the daughter of the late Kaduna mafia Alhaji Abubakar Alhaji, Aisha Abubakar appointed minister from Sokoto State. Aisha openly campaigned for the PDP governorship candidate in Sokoto State and her brother, Aminu Abubakar Alhaji, who unsuccessfully vied for Tambuwal/Kebbe Federal Constituency ticket on the platform of PDP.

Again, no one who wishes the APC well will be happy to see Zainab Shamsuna Ahmed, the daughter of another Kaduna mafia, Yahaya Hamza, appointed minister from Kaduna State. Zainab headed NEITI under Jonathan and contributed to the PDP during election.

Any card carrying member of the APC will be saddened to see Mohammed Bello, the son of Mamman Daura's friend, Musa Bello, appointed minister from Adamawa State. Mohammed Bello headed the National Hajj Commission of Nigeria under Jonathan but was given the plum FCT ministry by the Aso cabal. I believe if he had gone against PDP, he would have been removed immediately after Jonathan lost election.

But look at how the cabal dumped loyal party members in Enugu like Osita Okechukwu to appoint Geoffrey Enyeama, who had hitherto never met Buhari nor worked for the APC, as minister of Foreign Affairs.

Or, will any APC politician be happy with Senator Ita Enang, a top Jonathan campaigner, as Senior Special Assistant to the president on National Assembly (Senate) or Senator Victor Ndoma-Egba, also a top Jonathan campaigner, as chairman of the almighty Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, while loyal party men like Senator Magnus Abe were kicked to backstage? Senator Abe was even shot by the police during election in Rivers.

Aisha Buhari might have been wondering where were loyal Buhari campaigners like Senator Olorunnimbe Mamora, Faruq Adamu Aliyu, Dele Alake, Barrister Ismail Ahmed, Architect Waziri Bulama, Yusuf Tuga, Yakubu Lame, Dr. Hassan Lawan, Dr. Hakeem Baba-Ahmed, Umaru Dembo, Ubale Hashim, Umar Dangiwa, among others?

The president's wife and party supporters will also be incensed to see appointees of the past government still heading a number of agencies and departments. The cabal should know that party men are piqued that the 12 agencies of the Federal Ministry of Water Resources are still headed by the appointees of the past government as well as a minister, Engr Sulaiman Adamu, appointed not for his political contributions to the success of Buhari but close family ties.

Now take a cursory look at the reappointment of Umaru Ibrahim as managing director of NDIC. Ibrahim was appointed in December 2010 by Jonathan but was reappointed by Buhari to serve another five years as if there were no competent persons within the party fold. One still wonders why the Director-General of PenCom, Mrs Chinelo Anohu-Amazu, is retained despite the fact that her appointment was initially done in violation of law. Does Buhari think his party is happy that Malam Sani Sidi, a protege of former Vice President Namadi Sambo, is still the head of National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA?

Whoever wishes the president and APC well must feel strongly about this. As someone who stood by her husband during election, Aisha Buhari has rights to complain when some forces took over her husband or when things go wrong in the party. I still believe she loves her husband more than those that are insulting or mocking her. She is still the highest authority on the president's mental and socio-physical state.

One basic fact a lot of fanatical supporters of Buhari forget is that he rode on a saddle of political party to power. The fortunes of the party are diminishing and those who laboured to build the party and ensured the emergence of Buhari as candidate are relegated, while political ambulance chasers take the center stage. APC's growth is inorganic, and so needs some therapies to strengthen it's fragility.

There is concern about the political future of Buhari and APC. As it stands today, barring any miracle, Buhari could either be the first incumbent Nigerian president to lose a party ticket at the primaries or the second president to lose re-election in Nigeria's political history.

nextprince:

Ah say keep kwayet! Big T0T0

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2dugged:
you self take this,you go dey alright, hehehehe hehehehe hehehehe hehehehe hehehehe

Big T0T0

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Omale kabrud dey o!

nextprince:

Big T0T0

is that all?

2dugged:
is that all?

Ah say kabrud dey come now now

2dugged:
you self take this,you go dey alright, hehehehe hehehehe hehehehe hehehehe hehehehe

Very bigggggg T0T0!

nextprince:

Ah say kabrud dey come now now

hehehehe hehehehe hehehehe, funny you, I literally had to laugh, hehehehe

nextprince:

Very bigggggg T0T0!

and this are the crop of people that make up the defenders troop,apshit people, touts,mentally unstable bunch, hehehehehehe hehehehehehe hehehehehehe hehehehehehe hehehehehehe hehehehehehe your case is irredeemable like your other colleague,smh, and you think you are doing me?,hehehehe you are doing yourself

2dugged:
and this are the crop of people that make up the defenders troop,apshit people, touts,mentally unstable bunch, hehehehehehe hehehehehehe hehehehehehe hehehehehehe hehehehehehe hehehehehehe

Ah say ya big T0T0 dey smell like poo

nextprince:

Ah say ya big T0T0 dey smell like poo

to think modath or whatever her name is was happy that these set of people were backing her,I hope you can see the mental state of your associates, hehehehe hehehehe

2dugged:
to think modath or whatever her name is was happy that these set of people were backing her,I hope you can see the mental state of your associates, hehehehe hehehehe

Abeg leave modat 4 dis mata na. Dat bae past ya power too much.

2dugged:
to think modath or whatever her name is was happy that these set of people were backing her,I hope you can see the mental state of your associates, hehehehe hehehehe

Kabrud tok say ashawo no sabi english na true

nextprince:

Abeg leave modat 4 dis mata na. Dat bae past ya power too much.

birds of a feather, they say flock together

2dugged:
oh my!,I think its the other way round, a pig will always want to drag others to their level, I have decided to leave you in the mud, now that's why you are a northerner, kabiru grow some sense as old as you are, ehen!,na wah o, if you that claims to be an educated northerner can be behaving like this, I wonder what those uneducated ones that form large crunch in the north will behave like,hehehehe hehehehe hehehehe hehehehe hehehehe hehehehe hehehehe hehehehe hehehehe

Yes, having pushed for my ban, the ban has expired and I don't give a damn about it even if I'm banned again now cos I'm not a coward as long as there are dirty pigs that still need to be taken to the cleaners. Certainly, the only thing which most of u donkeys capitalise on is the fact that posts and comments are being regulated.
Fyi, I never claimed any education in ur context cos ur concept of education is about nudity, waywardness, dirtiness, insulting the president and always wishing Nigeria bad. If those are what u call education, I prefer to be ignorant. It still beats my imagination how a human being who makes a lot of noise about education cannot piece up few words to make a simple correct sentence. Some of u idiots think it is by calling others illiterates that qualify u to be correctly described as learned.

kabrud:

Yes, having pushed for my ban, the ban has expired and I don't give a damn about it even if I'm banned again now cos I'm not a coward as long as there are dirty pigs that still need to be taken to the cleaners. Certainly, the only thing which most of u donkeys capitalise on is the fact that posts and comments are being regulated.
Fyi, I never claimed any education in ur context cos ur concept of education is about nudity, waywardness, dirtiness, insulting the president and always wishing Nigeria bad. If those are what u call education, I prefer to be ignorant. It still beats my imagination how a human being who makes a lot of noise about education cannot piece up few words to make a simple correct sentence. Some of u idiots think it is by calling others illiterates that qualify u to be correctly described as learned.

welcome back

2dugged:
welcome back

Yes, and I'm ready to go back asap.

kabrud:

Yes, and I'm ready to go back asap.

good to know, why don't you follow me so it will be easier for you to troll me,what do you say??

Chai.....how did I missed this final chapter of Aisha kitchen, sitting room and the other room wailing

This one pass Tinubu own by miles...countdown to APCs going down.

So Fashola, Ameachi and Ogbonanya are supposed to be personal no grata in Buboo government Chai...Aisha no get joy at all.