₦airaland Forum

ayinba1:
It is rather unfortunate that some of us do not know when or how to speak. And if Mrs. Aisha is any wise, it is time to retrace her steps and salvage what's left. We thank God that Buhari did not grant her the powers of Turai or Sheepo;

Take note of the people supporting Mrs. Buhari and their general mindsets.

She did not bother commending the President on
- Release of Chibok girls
- Attempts to clean up the judiciary
- Stolen funds that are being recovered

I'll limit it to these for now
- The opulence she displayed at inaug,. and replying to Fayose were 2 big fails, she has terrible friends and advisers
- She had candidates who she wanted to get positions but were probably not qualified and Buhari did not oblige
- The appointed individuals were not people she knows (man knows man)

Even APC spokesman is supporting this nonsense, citing Saraki as "our leader" absurd!

If Mrs Buhari wants to remain relevant to the planned progress of this country, she needs coaches to help her or she should stay out of limelight. Mrs. Osinbajo is not any less educated than the President's wife.

But if she is done with the marriage and possibly plans to run for political office on her own clout, I would say there is nothing wrong with continuing in the same path although I doubt that she will carry her ward.

I have tried to be respectful in my post and apologies if I fell short.

What kind of friend or family will say such about you to the world Or did she not realize what she just did??

andyboi4real:
His Wife Belongs To His Kitchen,the Living Rum And The Other Room?... Am Sure He Has Chefs, Cleaner's And Maybe Even A Mistress,why Have Them If Its Ur Wife Job? This Jst Goes To Show That Our President Is CLUELESS, SHAMELESS AND USELESS,always Going Out Of The Country And Making STUPID Comments.I Wonda What The Germans Gave Him To Eat

Thewrath:
So the person that was elected to run the affairs of my country should not be my business?
Oga find level quick.

Jesusloveyou:
how pmb family affairs come be ur family business, is that the work ur family ask u do, instead to discuss important issue like the economy,insecurity and corruption which is our 3 point agendas, or his pmb family affairs among the agendas? u ipods sef.

luvmijeje:
As a wife and a mother what she did is wrong. None of her misgivings should have been said in public except if their marriage is at the point of no return . But she's not an elected candidate like the President which means her words doesn't carries much weight as the President.

TonyeBarcanista:
but I know that whether she campaigns or not, her husband will leave Aso Rock in 2019 because he has failed Nigerians. No going back

TonyeBarcanista:
Our President has a serious problem. What concerns us with where his wife belongs? that should be a family affair. In fact, must he comment on his wife in public?

Why can't he say "Sorry, I don't discuss my family in public"?

kazyhm:
well, to me it shows there is disconnect somehow, somewhere
you mean in Nigeria polity of pained oppositions
" her words doesn't carries much weight"

Thewrath:
It becomes my business the day he decides to embarrass Nigeria.
It becomes my business the day he decides to relegate and disregard our women.
If you still don't get it,I can't help you!

Jesusloveyou:
which women? u ipods dont really have work, or better things to discuss, pmb only said, aisha does not know politics, she only know what is in her kitchen and living room and other rooms, is that difficult to understand? so where and how did pmb relagate women?

mnairaland:
Your write up is not fair to buhari.They asked him to comment on what his wife was reported to by BBC to have said. His response amounted to saying that her opinion does not matter and as such he there is no need to comment.
That response, on the contrary, is a clever way of refraining from comnenting on her BBC interview.

Jesusloveyou:
that is my annoyance, u ipods attach much weight to her words from the begining, if not, this is not an issue to be discuss

TonyeBarcanista:
Well not saying he should argue with her, a simply remark like "sorry, I don't discuss my family" or something like "My wife would be my Campaign manager in the next election" or something sarcastic would have saved us the troubles

9jaBloke:
What makes you so certain? Do you really believe that the North and South West voted massively for PMB because GEJ failed to deliver?

Bugatie:
Nice write up, aptly put and smartly delivered, but bros what makes you think man who doesn't listen to a woman he supposedly shares the same bed will listen to you here.

Let the outcry continue, Buhari must amend his ways and come back to the main business of making Nigeria better!

Mummy Aisha's outburst is typical of a frustrated mother who has the best intentions for her family, and I see nothing wrong in that.

This is a night/weekend of solidarity in support our amiable first Lady and wife of the president.

#westandwithAishabuhari

Tunami:
Hmmm, an adage says, " A man whom the gods want to strike dead they first make him mad". I don't know if i'm correct someone should please correct me if i'm wrong. And i know God works in a mysterious way. Lets just watch as events continue to unfold itself in time to come. And as for the zombies i think your zombie disease would have been cured by now, except you love the president more than his wife.

ISTANDWITHBUHAR:
lol did people love Samson more than his wife? What happen to him later?


https://www.naij.com/622374-cruel-woman-hires-assassins-kill-husband-shocking-reason-photos.html

Tunami:
how can you compare samson with Buhari?

ISTANDWITHBUHAR:
Samson is a powerful man during his and same is Buhari now. How about the woman that pay assassin to kill her husband just recent?


Bro woman will advice you to do something without thinking about what the consequence maybe.

Bugatie:
Nice write up, aptly put and smartly delivered, but bros what makes you think man who doesn't listen to a woman he supposedly shares the same bed will listen to you here.

Let the outcry continue, Buhari must amend his ways and come back to the main business of making Nigeria better!

Mummy Aisha's outburst is typical of a frustrated mother who has the best intentions for her family, and I see nothing wrong in that.

This is a night/weekend of solidarity in support our amiable first Lady and wife of the president.

#westandwithAishabuhari

Tunami:
Hmmm, an adage says, " A man whom the gods want to strike dead they first make him mad". I don't know if i'm correct someone should please correct me if i'm wrong. And i know God works in a mysterious way. Lets just watch as events continue to unfold itself in time to come. And as for the zombies i think your zombie disease would have been cured by now, except you love the president more than his wife.

Tunami:
i don't need to argue with you, your moniker says it all.

ISTANDWITHBUHAR:
Oh... my moniker is now the yardstick in judging my comment? You are the kind of guy who a lady will ask to kill his mother before getting married to her and he will do the same.

I am a man and believe I can make some decisions myself Psquare have been together for over 2decades living a happy life before they get married and what happen next? Woman want to tear their empire apart.

TonyeBarcanista:
Of late the media have been entertaining us on the public spat between His Excellency, President Muhammadu Buhari and his Wife, Hajiyya Aisha Buhari over the latter's public interview with UK based British Broadcasting Commission, BBC. While Nigerians were trying to understand the motive behind Mrs Aisha's interview, Mr President responded by reminding her that "she belongs to the kitchen". This subject I'm am writing on.

1. Where Does Aisha Belong?
While referring to the position of Dame Patience Jonathan the wife of then President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan in July 2013, Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka insisted that she was nothing but "Domestic Appendage" of her husband, the President and possess neither power nor office that is constitutionally recognized. President Buhari in his interview reechoed the sentiment of prof Soyinka by insisting that his wife Aisha belongs to his kitchen, bedroom and other rooms but not the government.

First thing first, I am in agreement with Mr President's position that his spouse holds no office in government (though I have no business in discoursing whether she belongs to the kitchen or bedroom). The Nigeria constitution neither recognized any office for spouses of officials of government nor allocated any power to them. Though being a spouse to the President and other senior government officials comes with some unofficial benefits, those benefits remains privileges and not right. It is the President, and not his family was given a mandate by Nigerians to run the affairs of the state for a given period of time. The President along with the Vice President owns the government, and appoint other officers to perform some specific tasks as constitutionally prescribed. Neither their spouses nor any family member have any right to share powers with them.

Haven said that, I find it ridiculous that Mr President just realised that his Wife is not an officer of government. This is the same woman that the President allocated office to, appointed Aides to work with her and allocated funds to. The President should not expect Nigerians to clap for him for not "recognizing the office" that doesn't exist after he has spent millions of our scarce resources to pay her Aides and run her "office". 

In fact, the President has only indicted himself that he has been upholding and  encouraging illegality since May 29, 2015. 

2. Muhammadu Buhari Promised Not To Operate Office of First Lady But...:
In an exclusive interview with Weekly Trust (in Kaduna) in December 2014, President Buhari as part of his campaign promises pledged not to operate the Office of First Lady because the constitution does not recognise it, and also because “There is the Ministry of Women Affairs, and so on” to represent the interest of women in government(cabinet)(DailyTrust December 26, 2014). Surprisingly, on January 2015, a month after making that statement,  his wife, Hajjiya Aisha "tactically" countered him by saying that “If the office of the first lady is constitutionally recognised, he will not tamper with it, but if it is not, that’s okay."(PUNCH Jan 24, 2015), and she went on to sermonise Nigerians how she would operate the "office" as wife of the President (tactically avoiding the First Lady nomenclature).

Upon assumption to office, Buhari and his wife not only operated the office as if it was recognized but craftily changed the title from."First Lady" to "Wife of the President".

Therefore, Buhari not only breached the constitution but also went against his campaign promise. A betrayal of trust.

3. The First Couple Should Stop Making Caricature of Themselves In Public:
There is something funny about Mr President, he is fond of making ridiculous remarks and demarketing Nigeria through international Press. Coincidentally, his own wife that was supposed to defend him in public but criticise him in private chose a foreign medium to lash at her husband and his kitchen cabinet. It is however funny that Mr President that is expected to respond to his wife via phone call to her line also decided on responding to her through foreign press.

What kind of couple is this? Even if Aisha's role is in the kitchen, won't it be best for Mr President to privately remind her that she shouldn't interfere in his government? What is the wisdom in the action of Mrs Buhari that is supposed to be a source of support to her husband? Why is Mr President and Aisha embarrassing themselves as couple? It is even painful that the world will now see the level of communication between Nigeria's first family.

Is Mr President saying that he is clueless in the home front? If President Buhari can't control his wife and family, how then is he expected to handle the complicated affairs of Nigeria?

4. Nigerians Are Not Interested In Aso Rock's Power Play:
Dear Mrs Buhari, Nigerians voted your husband to deliver on a mandate(which he has largely failed to do). Nobody is interested in who and who makes up his kitchen cabinet or who calls the shots in Aso Rock. It is not our business.

In fact, there is no government or institutions without inner caucus, internal politics and power play. Mrs Aisha should not drag Nigerians into Aso Rock's politics, looking for cheap public sympathy because she lost out in the power game. Please Ma, keep your wailing to yourselves and your cliques.

5. Mrs Aisha Didn't Say Anything New:
I was glad when Mrs Aisha admitted that the government has failed, but I also know that patriotic Nigerians in their tens of millions have been shouting this. Mrs Aisha stated that she won't campaign for her husband if he should seek reelection in 2019, but I know that whether she campaigns or not, her husband will leave Aso Rock in 2019 because he has failed Nigerians. No going back.

However, Nigerians will be highly grateful to Mr President and his wife if they desist from responding to each other in public and allow Mr President face the business of governance that he was elected to do until his time elapses in 2019.

I will end this piece by congratulating the 21 returnee Chibok school girls and their family for the reunion despite the challenges they went through. It is my prayer that other innocent girls are returned back.



May God Bless Us All and Bless Nigeria

lezznjr:
[b]Nah, you belittled Nigeria falsely without taking accounts of facts.

You said Kenya is ahead of Nigeria in all aspects, that's the tittle of your thread. It is more horrendous than it is misleading.

The sheer monstrosity of your weak lies!!!

Kenya's poverty rate is 43% Nigeria's , by 2015 world bank standard is 33%

Nigeria's PPP and middle class is larger than Kenya's on sheer numbers and percentage!

Nigeria has more geopolitical tentacles than Kenya.

Our multinationals are spread in western and eastern African countries than Kenya's!

You mentioned mobile money about kenya but it never crossed your mind that only poor countries without world standard banking institution and infrastructure operate mobile banking like Kenya does. The world is on E and internet banking not mobile banking.

Only 42 percentage of Kenyans are connected to their national power grid despite being just twice the population of Lagos.

Nigeria is 50% despite vandalism from gas installations.


You owe every Nigerian a front page apology for your ignorant thread!

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GERALD710:
LET US GO THROUGH YOUR LIES WITH FACTS AND LINKS.
Kenya's Access to On Grid Electricity stands at 55%
http://www.kplc.co.ke/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_in_Kenya
Emphasis on ON GRID electricity, there are a number of Kenyans especially in the towns in the North that have access to off grid electricity, that is, electricity powered by power stations not connected to the national grid.
Kenya thus not only has a higher electricity access rate, the quality of power is by faaar more superior to Nigeria's since Kenya has a reliable distribution network and very few (Unscheduled) power blackouts.
Kenya is on course to reach the 70% mark by June 2017 since Kenya power has met(and exceeded) the targeted connection rate every year since 2012.
As for poverty rate.Nigeria's poverty rate is ranges from

49%According to the World Bank in 2013, Making you a filthy Liar
http://data.worldbank.org/country/nigeria

61% According to the BBC IN 2012
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-17015873

70% is the most quoted figure as of 2015
http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/05/new-govt-inheriting-70-poverty-28-unemployment/
http://www.indexmundi.com/nigeria/population_below_poverty_line.html
http://dailypost.ng/2013/07/13/70-of-nigerian-women-are-living-below-poverty-line-minister/
http://www.ruralpovertyportal.org/country/home/tags/nigeria

Kenya's poverty rate ranges from a high of 42% as of 2015 According to Unicef
http://www.unicef.org/kenya/overview_4616.html

38% according to the World Bank in 2013
http://data.worldbank.org/country/kenya
http://www.businessdailyafrica.com/Kenya-poverty-level-is-down-to-38-per-cent-says-World-Bank-/-/539552/1886338/-/hboscsz/-/index.html

In all areas you mentioned, AND LIED ABOUT!! Kenya has beaten Nigeria so please, next time you spew your nonsense, back it up with facts.

As for Geopolitics, You have to be joking!!!
The United Nations is mainly based in Kenya with the World Headquarters of UNEP and UNHSP being in Nairobi plus it is the Africa Headquarters of every UN agency save for one.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Office_at_Nairobi
The second largest US embassy is in Kenya. Kenya is ahead of Nigeria, Ethiopia and Tanzania in both development and millitary aid(Which in the latter, Nigeria does not feature in the top 10).
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/30/us-foreign-aid-by-country_n_1837824.html?slideshow=true#gallery/245876/8

When it comes to multinationals, could you mention any Nigerian multinationals controlled from Nigeria in East Africa. Because I came to find out (and many Nigerians in Kenya can tell you) that the likes of UBA Kenya,GT Bank Kenya and Ecobank Kenya are not linked to the Nigerian banks at all!! GTBank Kenya for example is not fully owned by the mother bank but has Kenyan shareholders apparently.
And BTW, very few African companies can crack the Kenyan market. South Africa has tried, All of them from Nandos to Tesco to Massmart left the country .All the three nigerian banks above are in the bottom 10 in terms of size in Kenya.
On the other hand, we do have Kenyan multinationals all across East and Central Africa. Kenol Kobil operates as far as Zambia(Even used to be in Zimbabwe, before Mugabe started his ruckus), KCB bank is the largest bank by assets in East and Central Africa. The likes of Nakumatt, Uchumi, Cooperative Bank , Equity Bank, Safaricom's MPESA are all found in East and Central Africa, from Kisangani to Lindi, Juba to Bunjumbura

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/30/us-foreign-aid-by-country_n_1837824.html?slideshow=true#gallery/245876/8

lezznjr:
Shove your Wikipedia sources up your ignorant ass.

World stats puts you even lesser than i did.
http://www.tradingeconomics.com/kenya/access-to-electricity-percent-of-population-wb-data.html

Please, don't post Wikipedia here in debate. Look for more credible sources!

And only 33% of Nigerians are poor. According to world bank standards http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/only-a-third-of-nigerians-are-poor-says-world-bank/184323/


According to UNiCef 42% of Kenyans are poor. 92% are low income families.

http://www.unicef.org/kenya/overview_4616.html

Kenya has doctor-patient ratio of one doctor to 10,000 patients.

Nigeria produces more doctors abroad in US,UK, Saudi Arabia and still manages to have a doctor-patient ratio of one to 3,500

Kenya is a slumville, a giant landmass of sleazehole and you are an ignorant bugger. Slide into your slum, pea brain.

lezznjr:
Shove your Wikipedia sources up your ignorant ass.

World stats puts you even lesser than i did.
http://www.tradingeconomics.com/kenya/access-to-electricity-percent-of-population-wb-data.html

Please, don't post Wikipedia here in debate. Look for more credible sources!

And only 33% of Nigerians are poor. According to world bank standards http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/only-a-third-of-nigerians-are-poor-says-world-bank/184323/


According to UNiCef 42% of Kenyans are poor. 92% are low income families.

http://www.unicef.org/kenya/overview_4616.html

Kenya has doctor-patient ratio of one doctor to 10,000 patients.

Nigeria produces more doctors abroad in US,UK, Saudi Arabia and still manages to have a doctor-patient ratio of one to 3,500

Kenya is a slumville, a giant landmass of sleazehole and you are an ignorant bugger. Slide into your slum, pea brain.

GERALD710:
I PLACED A KENYA POWER LINK BUT YOU JUST GLOSS IT OVER, RIGHT
So You Think the World Bank knows better than Kenya Power, the Company DOING THE POWER CONNECTIONS, BIATCH PLEASE!!! READ IT AND WEEP!!
Directly from the Kenya Power Website http://www.kplc.co.ke/