Video: Watch Aisha’s interview as she says cabals have hijacked Buhari’s govt + Buhari's weird response to her.

Aisha Buhari claims Buhari’s government has been hijacked by cabal.

IN KANO – The President’s wife, Mrs. Aisha Buhari has warned that her support for her husband for 2019 election rest on the her husband’s readiness to shakeup his government. 

The soft spoken Aisha Buhari in a BBC Hausa interview monitored in Kano said that Buhari’s government has been hijacked by cabal who are “behind presidential appointments”.

 Mrs Buhari revealed that “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 “. Aisha Buhari Aisha Buhari who spoke against the backdrop of growing discontent over Buhari’s popular declaration that he belongs to everybody and belong to one emphasised that “I may not back him at the next election unless he shakes up his government’. 

She lamented that most of the officials of the government are known to the President and the first family, adding that they are usurpers who did nothing to help All Progressive Congress struggle in 2015.

 Asked to name those who had hijacked the government, she smiled and declared that “you will know them if you watch television.” Mrs Aisha Buhari posited “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 for 27 years.” She further revealed “some people are sitting down at their homes folding their arms only for them to be called to come and head an agency or ministerial position”. 

Mrs Buhari claimed that “some of them don’t even have voters card, and those who made sacrifice have been reduced to nothing and certainly not happy with the way things are going ’. 

According to Vanguard News, the full text of the interview would be aired on Saturday morning on BBC Hausa magazine programme “Gane mun Hanya”.

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Also: Read Response from President Muhammadu Buhari below

My wife belongs to my kitchen, Buhari responds to Aisha’s interview

President Muhammadu Buhari has laughed off his wife Aisha’s comment that she may not support him if he runs for election come 2019. President Buhari and the German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

 President Muhammadu Buhari, laughing off the comment, said, his wife the first lady, belongs to his kitchen and that he knows not which party she belongs to. “I don’t know which party my wife belongs to, but she belongs to my kitchen and my living room and the other room.” 

His comments to reporters in Germany prompted German Chancellor Angela Merkel, standing at his side, to give him a short glare and then laughed. Recall that in an interview with BBC Hausa-language service broadcast Friday, 

Aisha Buhari had said that her husband did not know many top government appointees in his cabinet. She also accused them of not sharing the vision of her husband’s party, the All Progressives Congress party. 

Although she did not mention any names, she however asked people to watch out for them on the television programmes. 

Buhari, who was a military dictator in the 1980s, was elected in his fourth run at the presidency in 2015 on the back of a coalition that includes former foes and opportunists who abandoned the former governing party of defeated President Goodluck Jonathan. 

Buhari has not said whether he will run again in 2019. “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,” Aisha Buhari said. 

In his comments to reporters, Buhari also said he hopes his wife will remember that he ran for presidency three times before succeeding on the fourth effort. “So I claim superior knowledge over her and the rest of the opposition, because in the end I have succeeded. It’s not easy to satisfy the whole Nigerian opposition parties or to participate in the government.”

 Buhari had campaigned on promises to crack down on corruption and turn the tide against the Boko Haram insurgency. His government yesterday announced the first negotiated release of 21 of 218 Chibok schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram in 2014. 

However, Nigeria’s northeast faces a famine that threatens to kill tens of thousands of children after Boko Haram disrupted the region’s transportation and farming. Some areas remain dangerous and inaccessible. 

Nigeria has also fallen into recession amid slumped oil prices and lost its position as Africa’s biggest petroleum producer as militants attacked pipelines in the south 

Credit: BBC Hausa & Vanguard News