Stop Buhari’s Cabal Now --- By Abdullahi Hassan, Zaria.
But some will say whenever
you are elected into government, you have to bring in professionals, experts
who know how to do the job and not just politicians?
Yeah; but if you look at the journey that we had; after the
merger, we didn’t call it merger or APC again, we called it a movement because
it was a collective effort of millions of people, only for us to find out that
the government is being operated by a few people. Very few, in the sense that
we have, may be, four to six people that really started the journey with us in
the system.
Unfortunately, the people that are occupying the seats, I don’t
think they have any expertise that our supporters in APC do not have. We have
supporters all over the world. It was a real collective effort by those who
supported APC and felt that enough is enough; let us have sanity in the
society.
Nobody will say that ‘it was as a result of my hard work that I
brought this government’; it was a real team work and we wish that the team
work should continue.
Everybody knows what my husband wants to achieve in four years.
But having new set of people on board that are not part of us or know what we
promised Nigerians is the thing we are facing now.
Who are these 4 to 5
people you are talking about?
People like Ogbonnaya Onu, Amaechi, Fashola. After the merger,
it was a huge group that came together and started the struggle. It is sad that
only a few of them are in the system now. Though I heard that they are about to
announce 3000 names as Board members. We feel that those that have started the
struggle should not be limited to board members; they should be in positions
like heading agencies that will impact positively on the lives of Nigerians.
We know what we campaigned for, only for us to bring people that
are busy telling people that they are not politicians but they are occupying
seats that were brought in by politicians. This is a huge disrespect for
politicians. We are just starting; we have not got to 2017, much less 2018 and
then 2019 for us to go back to the polls. You understand what I mean?
Who are these few
people you said are surrounding President Muhammadu Buhari and have you spoken
to him about this?
After receiving complaints upon complaints, I decided to tell
him. But all the same, a lot of people have been coming on their own and also
collectively to tell him that things are not going the way it should when it
comes to putting people in certain positions. Because most of those that are
occupying positions in agencies, nobody knows them and they themselves don’t
know our party manifesto; what we campaigned for; they were not part of us
completely. People were sitting down in their houses, folding their arms only
for them to be called upon to come and head an agency or a ministerial
position. They don’t have a mission or vision of our APC. You understand what I
mean?
Whose fault is this?
It’s the fault of 15.429 million people, because they are the
ones that brought in the government. It’s their fault!
But theirs is just to
elect APC and President Muhammadu Buhari and he is the one that is supposed to
be in charge. Is he not?
Because they elected him; that’s why he is here. If they can
stand firm and strengthen the party and tell everybody that ‘No, we can’t take
this; we can’t take you because you are not a card carrying member, you don’t
know what we want to achieve within so and so time’. Fifteen-point-something
million people is a huge number that can control a country.
Somebody listening to
this will feel like President Muhammadu Buhari is not in charge of this
government?
It is left for the people to decide whether he is in charge or
he is not in charge. People actually accepted his ideology and decided to
follow him for the past 13 years. That is what brought him to this current
position.
As his wife, what will
be your advice to him to move forward?
My advice is to the whole people that voted for him. They should
strengthen the party and whoever is not part of the party should not have
control over fifteen-point-something million people. We are in a democracy and
not military era; so, we have to play it well and leave a legacy.
What you are saying is
that if things continue like this, you will not leave any legacy?
As a person, I have my right to say how I feel about something.
If it continues like this, I am not going to be part of any movement again,
because I need to work with the people that we started the journey with
collectively so that we can achieve what we want to achieve, so that he would
leave a legacy.
Have you told your
husband all this?
Yeah! He knows! At my own level, I have done it personally. I
have also listened to people’s complaints and I tried to tell him what they are
coming to tell me so that if there is anything to be corrected; it can be
corrected.
Concluding part of the
translated Version of an interview with the wife of president, Hajia Aisha
Buhari, by the Hausa service of the British Broadcasting Corporation, BBC.
Monitored in Zaria by Abdullahi Hassan, Zaria.
Culled from the Sun Newspaper
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