this is controversial interview Aisha Buhari's had with BBC Hausa Service.
BBC Hausa: for one and half years since President Muhammadu Buhari
came into power, a lot of people are expressing grief over the way few close relations of the President have hijacked power while neglecting people that worked for his success during the election.
According to BBC Hausa this is how the interview with Aisha Buhari and Nazi Maka’ilu from Abuja goes.
BBC Hausa: People have goodwill towards President Muhammadu Buhari, especially looking at the things he did before, but since coming into power things have not been working the way they should, what do you thing is the cause?
Aisha Buhari: I am not an official of the government, but in my opinion as a woman and a mother, what I think is, it is a known fact that the first 4 years are not going to be easy.At first, it was people that brought the government into power. The majority of those people are not appointed by the government. people that are not politicians, not professionals were brought in to occupy government offices. They don’t even know what we said we want and what we don’t during the campaign.
They even come out and proclaim to people they are not politicians, but they are occupying the government offices meant for politicians. Some have left their wives, some lost children, some women too have left their husbands because of political appointment, a lot happened during the time. The way things are moving me too I am not happy.
We are just beginning, we are yet to finished. Some people that been in government have also been appointed. But those heading government agencies you can find one fighting his state governor, they contested together during election one in APC while in PDP.
BBC Hausa: Who are those doing these kinds of things?
Aisha Buhari: Everybody knows them. Those people should know that people voted single. Even Buhari too had a vote. Nobody voted 5 times or more. 15.429 Million People. That one that people are thinking too, he had only some 2 or 3 people. I am making a plea to them to have the people at heart and embrace peace so that we can all move together.
Not even now in 2016 or 17, lot of people are creating divisions within the ruling party APC, which is our source of focus. They believed they have worked for the government while those appointed some of them had no voter’s card. What I fear is an uprising of 15.4 million people.
BBC Hausa: Is the President aware some people are subverting his government?
Aisha Buhari: Whether he knows or he does not, those that voted for him knows.
BBC Hausa: But you are the most closest to him, did you tell him?
Aisha Buhari: There is nothing I can tell him, he is seeing things himself. Out of the people he has appointed, take 50, 45 of them I don’t know them. Perhaps he doesn’t know them too.
I have been living with him for 27 years.
BBC Hausa: Do you think there are some people that are dictating to the President things to do, not him?
Aisha Buhari: That is the point am making, those that are aware they don’t have voters card, they should give chance to those that got theirs, they are the ones that struggled and knows what we want to do. Some of them if you attend meeting with them they will open up to you, we are not politicians, if somebody is wise, they will not accept to take any political office.
They didn’t even work for it. Even if you are asked to, you should say it is not my field . Those places not headed by politicians will cause people discontent.
BBC Hausa: One would wonder to hear you say some people have hijacked the government without him knowing, but who do you think are those people?
Aisha Buhari: I don’t know them, I don’t know them. I don’t know them
BBC Hausa: But some people are calling names, saying 2 or 3 are the ones, do you that as well?
Aisha Buhari: Yes I agree. Because of those appointed apart from Fashola, Amaechi, and some others, not much, I don’t know them, most of us too don’t know them, and he too does not know them
BBC Hausa: One would wonder that Buhari is not the one charge knowing him as a person who had leadership experiences, people would not believe
Aisha Buhari: Yes it is a thing of surprise; nobody thought it is going to be like this. But now that it is like this…sometimes when one is doing something wrong without him knowing, but when people talk to them, they should listen. Because in the future, whether he is going to contest or not, it is that same person that would vote for APC. We hope those people don’t come back, and everybody doesn't hope so too
BBC Hausa: You said “Whether he is going to contest in the future or not”, has he disclose it to you whether he is standing or not?
Aisha Buhari: He didn’t tell me, but I have made up my mind.
