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Mrs Buhari’s Hustle by ochukoccna: 5:32pm On Apr 21, 2016
Last Thursday, the wife of the President, Mrs. Aisha Buhari, launched her book, Essentials of Beauty Therapy: A Complete Guide for Beauty Specialists, an event attended by the familiar gang of the All Progressives Congress big wigs: Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo; his wife, Dolapo; senators and state governors; distinguished and ordinary politicians. Coincidentally, the launch date also dredged deeply ugly memories for some Nigerians – the people of Chibok whose daughters were abducted two years ago; Nigerians who still remember them and care, and the girls themselves who, wherever they are, probably no longer have a sense of how much time has passed.

Mrs Buhari should be criticised for her insensitivity, launching a book on the Chibok anniversary. The idea of celebrating something as vain as “beauty” seems frivolous when compared to the harrowing experience the 219 abducted young women must be going through.

The very day Mrs Buhari was gathering a crowd of Nigerians wealthy enough to be sheltered from the ugliness that characterises the Nigerian social landscape – no light, no fuel, no money, no jobs, no joy, no hope – the United States Congress addressed the issue of the missing Chibok girls, promising they would do all they could to bring them back. You would think it is their country’s personal tragedy. In a number of places in different parts of the world, schoolchildren, politicians, artistes, and ordinary folk sent words of solidarity to Nigeria, joining hands in global humanitarianism.



Here in Nigeria? The wife of the President launched a book on “beauty therapy” before a crowd whose lives were already too privileged to ever need her book.

Perhaps, to preempt and stave off criticism of the insensitivity of timing, Mrs Buhari attached the book launch to the Chibok girls, the schoolboys murdered at Bunu Yadi, and the Internally Displaced Persons in various camps. Judging from the media reports of the event, it seems highly likely that the Chibok, Bunu Yadi, and IDP angle came as an afterthought. For, if the rather glamorous event were about these people, the theme should have been built around them; their story should not have been tangential to her book project.

Otherwise, how come the police turned the #BringBackOurGirls campaigners and Chibok parents back from Aso Rock when they staged a peaceful demonstration on Thursday? Why should the #BBOG campaigners who have kept the issue in public memory be outside the villa at an event for Chibok girls on the anniversary of their abduction? Why were the #BBOG campaigners not invited to the book launch? Why were they not part of the planning for the event? Since the money raised was meant for Chibok girls, Bunu Yadi boys’ family, and the IDPs, how come Mrs Buhari has yet to disclose the amount to the public? In the interest of transparency, why did the guests not announce the amount they were donating? What did they have to hide? Where and when does Mrs Buhari begin to disburse the money?

All that I have said is, however, secondary to this one important fact: the book launch should never have held. The decision of a sitting First Lady to launch a book is unethical, immoral, and a blatant act of corruption. One would think that the people who got to office by campaigning against the corruption that has eaten us out of house and home would stay afloat in the cesspool of power; but no, they are already plunging in headlong,

Can Mrs Buhari and her handlers honestly claim they were not bothered by the ethics of a sitting First Lady launching a book? For their equally ethically challenged followers who have argued she did nothing wrong, can they tell us how Mrs Buhari’s launching a book around her area of career specialisation – beauty therapy – is different from her predecessor, Mrs Patience Jonathan, who similarly muscled her way to the apogee of her civil service job – becoming a Permanent Secretary in the Bayelsa State Civil Service while sitting in Aso Rock?

When questioned, Mrs Jonathan said she had to take care of her career as she needed it to fall back on after their tenure expired. That manner of desperation in a First Lady would of course, result in a manoeuvring of public structures. She would indeed attain the height of her career but not because she worked her way through it. Mrs Buhari, in this case, is no different; promoting her deactivated career by writing a book to teach young people about beauty and fashion.

Mind you, this was not a hobby that preceded her husband’s tenure in office. There is no indication she was a prolific writer at some point and that she still writes because she cannot put her creative impulses on a leash. Instead, she merely showed she was another First Lady politician who cannot take the power and privilege of her office for granted. She has to bend power to accommodate her hustles. Like former President Olusegun Obasanjo who used the privilege of his position to harass a presidential library out of people, Mrs Buhari quickly gathers a crowd around herself to sell them a book they are not likely to read. She could not even wait a full year in office!

Mrs Buhari must of course know that all the people she could summon to that occasion, and all who wrapped their “agbada” around themselves to heed her call would not touch her with a pair of antiseptic gloves the very moment her husband is out of office. She, like other first ladies before her, must know these simple facts and that is why they take advantage of their office. She also probably knows that just like those who donated to Mrs Turai Yar’Adua’s N10bn cancer hospital no longer care about what became of that project once President Umaru Yar’Adua was out of power, nobody will enquire if the money raised at the book launch truly went to Chibok or the IDPs.

One only needed to take a look at the cross-section of guests – politicians, civil servants and some so-called captains of industry – and question which one of them needed a beauty book and why else they would have been present at that occasion other than mere eye service – to be seen by the Big Madam herself who can influence their lives and careers with the “Oga at the top”?

One also needed to listen to the VP’s speech at the occasion to understand that the whole event was a huge charade by sycophants. People who could not have dared to tell the First Lady hustling money out of their pockets that her action was just wrong.
One can count on them smiling through it all just so they can remain in her good graces.

Mrs Buhari further said she wanted the book used in vocational schools to teach beauty to young people. Well, if she can summon people to come launch it, how hard can it be to influence placing the book in the curriculum as a compulsory read so that thousands of people can keep paying into her pockets? The Kogi State Governor, Yahaha Bello, after all promised that state governors would make the book available in all the local governments across the country. Pray, with whose money?

In all these, one wonders what the position of Buhari, the fierce anti-corruption fighter and ethicist, is on his wife’s smash and grab. On the launch date, he was far away in China but I bet he could not have been ignorant about the whole activity. Was he in any way supportive or like Pontius Pilate, he found a way to wash his hands off the whole affair? Or, did he stare outside the windows of his hotel, looked across the Chinese landscape and quietly wondered if he was not another Prophet Eli – Israel’s moral guardian who could not even sort through his own family’s conduct?


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Re: Mrs Buhari’s Hustle by Nelkoko: 5:40pm On Apr 21, 2016
Aisha share rice dia na...... Zombies go n collect ur share

Re: Mrs Buhari’s Hustle by blackpanda: 5:42pm On Apr 21, 2016
Na bad belle de worry una

U said the first lady is not a public officer and shld not be seen in public. Now again, u say she shld not conduct her own private business. Get over ur envy already. Aisha buhari is a trained beautician who has a right to earn a living!

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Re: Mrs Buhari’s Hustle by TANTUMERGO007(m): 5:45pm On Apr 21, 2016
prior to the election, she was busy walking up and down looking for where to fry akara, i saw many e-kows hailing her and chanting praises, but where is she today?




ANS: she has used them to climb, she no longer cares for the akara woman on the street again. Nigerians will always be fulls undecided undecided undecided
Re: Mrs Buhari’s Hustle by adconline(m): 5:49pm On Apr 21, 2016
blackpanda:
Na bad belle de worry una

U said the first lady is not a public officer and shld not be seen in public. Now again, u say she shld not conduct her own private business. Get over ur envy already. Aisha buhari is a trained beautician who has a right to earn a living!
Shallowest response on. how's she a private citizen when she's using her office- office of the First Lady to extort money from people??
Re: Mrs Buhari’s Hustle by itstpia8: 5:49pm On Apr 21, 2016
ochukoccna:
The Kogi State Governor, Yahaha Bello, after all promised that state governors would make the book available in all the local governments across the country.

Huh?

Btw, is it this:


https://www.laprogressive.com/attack-black-beauty/


Which led to all this?
Re: Mrs Buhari’s Hustle by ochukoccna: 5:58pm On Apr 21, 2016
blackpanda:
Na bad belle de worry una

U said the first lady is not a public officer and shld not be seen in public. Now again, u say she shld not conduct her own private business. Get over ur envy already. Aisha buhari is a trained beautician who has a right to earn a living!


She's been accused of 'influence peddling'
I doubt you read and understood the article going by your shallow response
Or are you by any chance partaking in 'Aisha rice stomach infrastructure' undecided undecided
Re: Mrs Buhari’s Hustle by blackpanda: 9:31pm On Apr 21, 2016
adconline:

Shallowest response on. how's she a private citizen when she's using her office- office of the First Lady to extort money from people??

Dumbest response on. U just open mouth to blab and type trash!
Re: Mrs Buhari’s Hustle by blackpanda: 9:38pm On Apr 21, 2016
ochukoccna:



She's been accused of 'influence peddling'
I doubt you read and understood the article going by your shallow response
Or are you by any chance partaking in 'Aisha rice stomach infrastructure' undecided undecided

Wtf is influence peddling Abeg go baff bo. Rubbish!
Re: Mrs Buhari’s Hustle by AZeD1(m): 9:58pm On Apr 21, 2016
Comparing Mrs Buhari's book launch to PEJ's permanent secretary fiasco killed anything the author was trying to say.
Re: Mrs Buhari’s Hustle by HammerTheirPapa(f): 10:30pm On Apr 21, 2016
Aisha is marketing her beauty to younger studs like Wale and Bello. So that when the Dullard-in-chief ends up as Taylor's cell mate, he oil rig will stilll be well serviced and her congo shined frequently. Body no be wood, she is already preparing for dullharri's absence, she is futuristic. grin grin
Re: Mrs Buhari’s Hustle by TijaniAbu: 3:26pm On Apr 24, 2016
blackpanda:
Na bad belle de worry una

U said the first lady is not a public officer and shld not be seen in public. Now again, u say she shld not conduct her own private business. Get over ur envy already. Aisha buhari is a trained beautician who has a right to earn a living!

If Aisha is conducting her own business with launching this her ghastly ghost-written book, she should launch it privately, not with government money and donations should not be from government coffers. Simple ethics, but then, Bubuhari is a corrupt hypocrite. Change Change.
Re: Mrs Buhari’s Hustle by DrayZee: 7:55pm On Apr 24, 2016
blackpanda:
Na bad belle de worry una

U said the first lady is not a public officer and shld not be seen in public. Now again, u say she shld not conduct her own private business. Get over ur envy already. Aisha buhari is a trained beautician who has a right to earn a living!
And there was no better time to launch it than on a day set for the Chibok abductees.
Issorite.

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