President Muhammadu Buhari has publicly spoken against his wife who claimed that the president isn’t really in control of the country
Mrs. Buhari had earlier made these statements on the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), Hausa Service
She had said: “The President does not know 45 out of 50 of the people he appointed and I don’t know them either, despite being his wife of 27 years. 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.”
After which Buhari made the infamous ‘the other room’ statement
The First Lady was not deterred as she again spoke at a leadership summit in Abuja earlier this month and there, she urged Nigerians to take up arms against the “two or three people who have dominated this government.”
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She added: “Our votes were 15.4 million in the last (presidential) election and after that only for us to be dominated by two people… this is totally unacceptable.
“If 15.4 million people can bring in a government and only for the government to be dominated by two people or three people, where are the men of Nigeria? Where are the Nigerian men? What are you doing? Instead of them to come together and fight them, they keep visiting them one after the other licking their shoes (I’m sorry to use those words).”
When asked during a Voice of America (VOA) chat about the allegations made by his wife, the President had said: “That’s her business. It shows I am a real democrat… What they are saying is different from what is happening. They (those making these allegations) should come out and say those things they feel were stage-managed by the cabal, which I was forced to do. They should mention just one thing.”