newbornmacho:
You have described the elephant from where you observed it.
Aisha Buhari's comments have been seen by other analysts as a cry for help. A cabal , and you never mentioned this, has hijacked the running of this country from the man Nigerians voted in to office. While there have been rumors to that effect this is the first solid proof. This lady knowing that Nigerians have no way of confirming such suspicions has done the nation a public service. In addition she has taken a principled stand on the matter which is reasonable: she wouldn't be used as a pawn in a game to deceive the masses ever again.
This woman clearly has been in contact with the masses who are disillusioned , and if the president has ignored her private warnings she may have had to do this to prove to ordinary Nigerians she is not part of the cabal ruining the nation.
That's not to completely justify her taking the matter public though, but we all are outsiders here and there are probably huge factors at play here.

First, there is no govt, even in advanced democracies, without presence of a cabal. Who constitutes the cabal is determined by the president. If Aisha was allowed the influence she craves and become a powerful go-to person will she have come out to do this "service to the nation?"
I wait for your answer.

PassingShot:

Aisha was only brought into politics during the last campaign. Not once before 2015 election she was part of any of PMB's political campaigns. She was not part of his politics. So, this deflates your argument.

You are funny you know, how many times have you travelled with PMB or Godwin Emefiele to know about their doings and activities? Not once I suppose, but are you conversant on the state of things in the country? I will say yes, how much the wife of the president that has access to much more?

Pidggin:


What is there to argue about? Aisha has exposed her husband's incompetence, nothing more to add there. Buhari on the other hand has shown himself to be an unrepentant sexist and a tactless one at that

If this was a civilized country, he will definitely be impeached after making such an unsavory comment. We are simply waiting to see how this will end, enjoy

Bring out her words that exposed her husband's incompetence?

And tell us if your own primary place in your husband's house (if you ever get married) is not in the kitchen.

Every reasonable person knows that Aisha's unwarranted statement is borne out of frustration to weird her influence and flaunt her much coveted statue as the first lady.

Unfortunately she's not married to a "Santa Cruz" but Muhammadu Buhari Mai'gaskiya.
She might have lost her patience waiting eagerly to be given a free role to operate, as "befitting" a first lady but the opportunity failed to come neither is there any hope in the future for it going by the dispositions of the ever principled husband of hers.

Those kicking secretly against her husband's dispositions within the party found her as a viable tool to use to state their grouse, thus compounding the pressure on her to speak out.
Her statement gave her out as one of those vain and mundane women around, even as her expression has confirmed that indeed Buhari belongs to everybody and belongs to nobody not even his wife.
I knew that definitely she's already biting her fingers but it is too late.

she truely got it all wrong! yes, naija's struggling but virtually all her arguments and point sound weird to me. now i see the need to allign with popular saying that there's difference btween knowledge and wisdom! no matter how knowlegeable a woman seems, by devine arrangement, she'l 4eva be inferior in wisdom to a man. mean a 'a real man'! not most of u here that ur moms gene's the dominant in ur system. na God save me o! wey i resemble my father through and through. ride on pmb, no shaking. #teamnaijawillsoonbegreatagain.

donbrowser:
You just wasted your time Passingshot, we are not fools.

Prove you're not one by countering my argument. It's not enough shouting "I'm no fool" without proving it.

Aufbauh:
Every reasonable person knows that Aisha's unwarranted statement is borne out of frustration to weird her influence and flaunt her much coveted statue as the first lady.

Unfortunately she's not married to a "Santa Cruz" but Muhammadu Buhari Mai'gaskiya.
She might have lost her patience waiting eagerly to be given a free role to operate, as "befitting" a first lady but the opportunity failed to come neither is there any hope in the future for it going by the dispositions of the ever principled husband of hers.

Those kicking secretly against her husband's dispositions within the party found her as a viable tool to use to state their grouse, thus compounding the pressure on her to speak out.
Her statement gave her out as one of those vain and mundane women around, even as her expression has confirmed that indeed Buhari belongs to everybody and belongs to nobody not even his wife.
I knew that definitely she's already biting her fingers but it is too late.

It's only political foes of PMB that see thins differently. This is enough to cost her her marriage.

PassingShot:

You lack capacity to argue intelligently?

Sorry, I don't engage Zone-Bs again.

fiizznation:
Passing shot, may God continue to bless you for this wonderful piece. I careless about what disgruntled elements on this forum have been saying or will eventually say, but what people like you, modath, seunmsg, omenka, fulanimafia, quota system etc say is something I take very serious and with great concern. I even thought I was the only person who finds Aisha's outburst very disgusting and ludicrous, but thank God am not alone on this.

I'm still bemused by that silly woman's arrogancy and outright pompousness. Like seriously!!! Who the hell does she thinks she is? A president, your husband have to consult you before he makes his appointments? Aisha is very silly and I hope buhari will tame the nonentity once and for all.

Buhari knows the woman very well and that's the main reason he never wanted the office of the 1st lady in the first place. Now that she has achieved her stupid goal, what will be next for her? Can you believe that what she did was so big that local televisions and newspapers over here are carrying the news. Funny indeed.


Anyway, Mrs modath, you haven't made any comment regarding this buhari/Aisha saga. I'm looking forward to read your comment.

Nigerians are hypocritical in their doings. You applaud the man when he said "no office of the first lady". Now that the man appears unyielding even to those we think could control him (e.g Tinubu), you rally round his wife suffering from his stance of "No Office of First Lady".

We're a special creation of God.

Well written article though some of what she said was in order it would have been better in private rather than creating such a spectacle. That said PMB should have avoided the kitchen statement because of how brain dead people will deliberately misinterprete what he said.

At the end no Nigerian know the agreement between pmb and his wife.

Firefire:


Sorry, I don't engage Zone-Bs again.

I've long known you're empty. We're worlds apart in intellectual discussions. You no go fit, any day anytime.

PassingShot:

First, there is no govt, even in advanced democracies, without presence of a cabal. Who constitutes the cabal is determined by the president. If Aisha was allowed the influence she craves and become a powerful go-to person will she have come out to do this "service to the nation?"
I wait for your answer.

I can't believe you just attempted to justify usurpation of a peoples' mandate by a CABAL! even the President's aides wouldn't dare. She has only asked that those Nigerians trusted with power , the APC, be allowed to do their job. She says these usurpers don't even have voters' cards and are outsiders.
Secondly if this cabal had done a good job of running things she wouldn't have got the applause she's getting now.

Ppl are just looking @ d insignificant points raised @ d interview & 4getting d sensitive ones. Now, she raised a very valid point, d ppl appointed in2 dis public offices some don't even have a voters card. Dis is rada unfair 2 dose who voted 4 d administratn, I believe dat shud even be among d things 2 be looked out 4 wen appointing dem. It doesn't matter which party dey voted 4, we cannot ascertain dat & we cannot ascertain if d voted, but we can determine d interest dey have 4 dis natn by ensuring dey have a voters card.
I think it is very important. D senate needs 2 look in2 dat.

OP God bless u!

OP it's either your dictionary has limited words or you have an eye defect...she talked about a cabal hijacking the government and yet you seem not to see it worthy of mention...You came here offering poo for food...See your reasons for the president not knowing most of his appointees,it clearly shows you haven't been able to get the full bearing of aisha's statement cos she never said he appointed people because of qualifications,she said appointments where given base on recommendations by a certain cabal...You seem to be a bit myopic.

newbornmacho:

I can't believe you just attempted to justify usurpation of a peoples' mandate by a CABAL! even the President's aides wouldn't dare. She has only asked that those Nigerians trusted with power , the APC, be allowed to do their job. She says these usurpers don't even have voters' cards and are outsiders.
Secondly if this cabal had done a good job of running things she wouldn't have got the applause she's getting now.

That APC won the election means no one outside APC should get appointments?

The "good job" angle depends on who you are.

To many, PMB is doing a good job at clearing the mess he inherited from PDP. States and FG were owing massively as at when he came in that he had to provide huge bailout in his second month on the job. That surely is an indication of what mess he met. If not for PMB, we might have advertised Nigeria for sale on OLX. Topic for another day.

PassingShot:

I've long known you're empty. We're worlds apart in intellectual discussions. You no go for, any day anytime.

Thanks, mi ori aye oshi ati iranu.

Ur analysis is logical enough for any unbiased analytical mind to digest.....


The most annoying part is where she saw herself or even the president himself not knowing many of the appointess personaly as a good criteria to disqualify them

I cant remember if most of the foreign based experts hired by OBJ, YARADUA like Okonjos n the rest were previously known by them or even part of their campaign train


Woman is just appealing for our pity because Mr integrity refused her the opportunity to hijack the presidency as was the culture before now

“If I select people whom I know quite well in my political party, whom we came all the way right from the APP, CPC and APC, and have remained together in good or bad situation, the people I have confidence in and I can trust them with any post, will that amount to anything wrong? - Buhari

If the OP is right then Buhari is a liar

IEDA:
OP it's either your dictionary has limited words or you have an eye defect...she talked about a cabal hijacking the government and yet you seem not to see it worthy of mention...You came here offering poo for food...See your reasons for the president not knowing most of his appointees,it clearly shows you haven't been able to get the full bearing of aisha's statement cos she never said he appointed people because of qualifications,she said appointments where given base on recommendations by a certain cabal...You seem to be a bit myopic.

Just as I asked someone like you but couldn't answer, let me see if you're a bit more intelligent. If Aisha was part of the cabal having powerful influence on the president, would she have come out to say what she said? Prove you're smart by replying with an answer, please.

Actually this is how Jonathan supporters continued to give out false vibes and narratives despite the many vices going on then. The same ol' is playing out here.

The OP failed to touch on points where she brought up issues of change the party promised versus whats on ground at the moment.

Nigerians are enduring one of the worst economic crisis at the moment, due to oil prices but also due to inconsistent policies. Trials and errors has been the order of the day using government instruments to try to balance the economy. The common man is paying the price with almost unbearable standards of living and massively decreased buying power.

The current trend is while Nigerians may score him a 5.5 on corruption. He's certainly hovering on a 3 in other areas.

Statements like 'belongs in the kitchen' or other room is an unacceptable term frowned upon in educated societies. A leader implying this is as degrading the role of half the population that they are no worth more to the society than cooking and reproducing.

It's telling a female child that no matter how educated she is, she's to be subject to archaic thinking of limited opportunities.

PassingShot:

It's only political foes of PMB that see thins differently. This is enough to cost her her marriage.

Neah I don't think anything will happen to her marriage{and I don't pray such thing happen to her}. The woman goofed big time and am very sure she is currently regretting it. People will step into the matter and buhari will definitely listen to the voice of reason.

Aisha just have a major beef with Abba kyari and she'd expected her husband to take some actions against the man, but when forth wasn't coming, she became frustrated. Aisha and zarah are two people buhari should have kept out of the public eye and he failed to that in my opinion.

Gej might be disaster, but one thing I like about him is the way he kept his family affairs very private. I never knew he had a son not until of recent. Even his wife{PEJ} wasn't overbearing like the way buhari allowed Aisha to be.

dahmie2013:
Ppl are just looking @ d insignificant points raised @ d interview & 4getting d sensitive ones. Now, she raised a very valid point, d ppl appointed in2 dis public offices some don't even have a voters card. Dis is rada unfair 2 dose who voted 4 d administratn, I believe dat shud even be among d things 2 be looked out 4 wen appointing dem. It doesn't matter which party dey voted 4, we cannot ascertain dat & we cannot ascertain if d voted, but we can determine d interest dey have 4 dis natn by ensuring dey have a voters card.
I think it is very important. D senate needs 2 look in2 dat.

Wrong! Your party affiliation should NEVER be used as a criterion to get appointments in a serious government.

Aisha's grouse is her failure to have control of her husband as did previous first ladies.

PassingShot:

Aisha has allowed herself to be used by greedy politicians. I hope she survives this.

Guy, forget this! where were Mamman Daura and Abba Kyari when electioneering was on? PMB said he can't satisfy all, but must he satisfy the greedy nature of Mamman Daura and Abba Kyari? This duo neither have APC card membership nor INEC Voter' card, if truly they love this country and PMB what stopped them from getting one. I am a core Buharist, but PMB gaffed by saying his wife belongs to kitchen beside the most powerful woman on earth coz that tells our primitive thiniking here in Nigeria.
Aisha toiled round Nigeria campaigning for her husband and voted for Buhari, but Mamman Daura and his protege never did any and have bcome the biggest beneficiaries of buhari presidency. Monkey de work, baboon de chop!!!

fiizznation:
Neah I don't think anything will happen to her marriage{and I don't pray such thing happen to her}. The woman goofed big time and am very sure she is currently regretting it. People will step into the matter and buhari will definitely listen to the voice of reason.

Aisha just have a major beef with Abba kyari and she'd expected her husband to take some actions against the man, but when forth wasn't coming, she became frustrated. Aisha and zarah are two people buhari should have kept out of the public eye and he failed to that in my opinion.

Gej might be disaster, but one thing I like about him is the way he kept his family affairs very private. I never knew he had a son not until of recent. Even his wife{PEJ} wasn't overbearing like the way buhari allowed Aisha to be.

I agree with all except the last paragraph. We all know how PEJ imposed candidates on some states. We saw how she grabbed microphone away from Amaechi. She was the synonym to the word "overbearing"

PassingShot:

Wrong! Your party affiliation should NEVER be used as a criterion to get appointments in a serious government.

Aisha's grouse is her failure to have control of her husband as did previous first ladies.

I think u need 2 read first b4 commenting, like I did read urs.

PassingShot:

That APC won the election means no one outside APC should get appointments?

The "good job" angle depends on who you are.

To many, PMB is doing a good job at clearing the mess he inherited from PDP. States and FG were owing massively as at when he came in that he had to provide huge bailout in his second month on the job. That surely is an indication of what mess he met. If not for PMB, we might have advertised Nigeria for sale on OLX. Topic for another day.

Look , President buhari's nepotism has caught up with him. And it is imploding his base. Karma at work here probably.

Passingshot can lick the yanshh of buhari and other apc representatives..and to know the hypocrite lives abroad surprises me..he lives abroad where there is progression while remotely supporting backwardness in nigeria..

A zombiec hypocrite..listen to his rants and comments at your own risk..

PassingShot:
We’ve all been inundated by the interview granted BBC by the president’s wife which revealed personal and political happenings within the household of the Buharis. In response to the interview, we’ve also heard the president remark that his wife belongs in his kitchen and other rooms in his house. Without mincing words, I make bold to say that the president’s wife has lost much of the respect she used to command by her act and has made a bad situation far worse. On the other hand, the revelation has made my love for the president to increase.

Prior to the election of March 2015, GMB, as he was known then, made unambiguous statement on several occasions that “there won’t be an Office of the First Lady” if he became president. Majority of Nigerians applauded the statement on the strength of what past First Ladies had caused the country. We know of First Ladies who practically ordered appointed ministers around. We saw a First Lady embarrass a sitting governor. We saw many First Ladies having their own multitude of staff. The past First Ladies used to have budget drawn out for their office even though the Constitution of Nigeria has no recognition for such. These are only a few of many anomalies that were done in the name of Office of the First Lady. So, when PMB made the statement then, he clearly wanted to depart from that culture of impunity and Nigerians loved him for it.

In the said interview, Aisha clearly expressed frustrations at not having undue influence on the man appointed by Nigerians to do a job. She obviously is not having enough say on how ministers, DGs and other top government officials are appointed and this has disappointment her a great deal. Just like the Lagos Assembly shamelessly revealed their frustration about PMB not consulting with Tinubu on appointments, Aisha thought it right to express similar frustration but in the worst possible manner.

Let's Examine Key Statements of Her Interview:
1. "The president does not know 45 out of 50, for example, of the people he appointed and I don't know them either, despite being his wife of 27 years."

This clearly shows Aisha’s disposition to have undue influence on appointments. If not, why does the president need to know those who work for him or the country? What is important is those people’s qualifications and ability to do the job. Why should the appointees be known to Aisha on the strength of being the president’s wife of 27 years? This statement by the president’s wife reveals a lot about why/how the past First Ladies and their husbands appointed incompetent political jobbers to positions.

2. "Some people are sitting down in their homes folding their arms only for them to be called to come and head an agency or a ministerial position."

If anything, this is a positive on the part of the president. This simply means “no one needs to lobby for an appointment under Buhari once they’re qualified to do the job”. Won’t any reasonable being love the man?

3. "He is yet to tell me but I have decided as his wife, that if things continue like this up to 2019, I will not go out and campaign again and ask any woman to vote like I did before. I will never do it again."

This is about the most ridiculous of all her statements! It smells arrogance and pompousness. Who makes who? Who is known in the political arena? It is because of Muhammadu Buhari that we got to know Aisha Buhari. It is Muhammadu Buhari that’s the politician and not Aisha Buhari. Buhari won the last election not because his Aisha was on the campaign train even though she might have swayed a few voters. In fact, report had it that PMB was reluctant to allow Aisha join the campaign train but for Tinubu’s intervention. So, it is overestimation of her contribution to her husband’s success at the polls to make this statement because she has no political structure or clout to wield such influence.

As I said earlier, PMB by this development has earned further respect from me and many like me. He has proved over and over that he cannot be dictated to whether you are a Tinubu, Obasanjo or even the person who many would have thought could be used to get him – Aisha his wife and mother of four of his children. PMB has once again proved to be a man of principle and high moral standards! This is the kind of leader Nigeria needs to get out of the mess bestowed on us by undue interference from those close to past presidents.

PMB’s “Aisha Belongs to My Kitchen” Comment
As unnecessary as the response from the president might seem, one has to put himself in a position of a man, the president of the most populous black nation on earth, whose wife has become rebellious and a political foe (frenemy sort of) ready to crash the castle built over many years. I must even commend him for finding the strength to beam with laughter when answering question on his wife’s interview.
The president’s comment at that time couldn’t have been better worded to a wife who behaved with arrogance and insubordination. To make it clear to the bigots and hypocrites, a wife’s primary place is in the kitchen and her husband’s home. Any and every other duty is secondary to that.

Yes, our wives are educated, work and participate in governance and Aisha Buhari’s case is no different as she’s known to have been educated by the same man she’s trying hard to destroy now. We all know Aisha had a beauty salon/spa and a few other businesses before PMB became president. PMB has appointed a few women into high position in his administration. We also know that his daughters are educated. Clearly, all these are a proof that the president is not someone who does not believe in women’s ability to be equal to that of men in every aspect of life.
However, if a woman thinks she has a right to have undue and unwanted influence in a man’s job/life, there is nothing wrong in putting such women where they primarily belong - the kitchen and other rooms.

What Aisha did is capable of ruining her marriage and she will be the ultimate loser at the end of it. If that happens, all those urging her on will not be there to console her or offer any help. I could have asked her to ask PMB’s first wife (Safinatu of blessed memory) if she regretted accepting money from IBB who was holding her husband in a cell. Surely, she must have regretted her action one way or the other.

Civil contribution is appreciated even though I know more than half here are frustrated one way or the other.

the most senseless post ave ever seen all my life, be carful or u will die a zombie rubish

President99:
Guy, forget this! where were Mamman Daura and Abba Kyari when electioneering was on? PMB said he can't satisfy all, but must he satisfy the greedy nature of Mamman Daura and Abba Kyari? This duo neither have APC card membership nor INEC Voter' card, if truly they love this country and PMB what stopped them from getting one. I am a core Buharist, but PMB gaffed by saying his wife belongs to kitchen beside the most powerful woman on earth coz that tells our primitive thiniking here in Nigeria.
Aisha toiled round Nigeria campaigning for her husband and voted for Buhari, but Mamman Daura and his protege never did any and have bcome the biggest beneficiaries of buhari presidency. Monkey de work, baboon de chop!!!

No matter how you put it, the president will decide who and who forms the cabal around him. If a man excludes his wife from such circle, he surely has his reason.

And if Aisha saw it right to do what she did, PMB was right to tell her in the open what she must have told her in the bedroom - that she belongs in his kitchen and not in his job.

President99:
Guy, forget this! where were Mamman Daura and Abba Kyari when electioneering was on? PMB said he can't satisfy all, but must he satisfy the greedy nature of Mamman Daura and Abba Kyari? This duo neither have APC card membership nor INEC Voter' card, if truly they love this country and PMB what stopped them from getting one. I am a core Buharist, but PMB gaffed by saying his wife belongs to kitchen beside the most powerful woman on earth coz that tells our primitive thiniking here in Nigeria.
Aisha toiled round Nigeria campaigning for her husband and voted for Buhari, but Mamman Daura and his protege never did any and have bcome the biggest beneficiaries of buhari presidency. Monkey de work, baboon de chop!!!

don't mind passingshot..

Na disgrace dey hold am there reason for this thread..no way to hide him ugly head..