HAJIA AISHAT BUHARI, THE WIFE OF MAJOR GEN BUHARI SAYS THAT SHE IS NOT A FOREIGNER
Hajia Aisha Buhari, wife of Maj.-Gen
Muhammadu Buhari, presidential candidate of the All Progressives
Congress, has said that she is not a foreigner as being speculated in
some quarters.
She spoke through Mrs. Deborah Iliya, a
chieftain of APC in Kaduna State who represented her at the public
presentation of a book, “Wind of change: 72 leadership qualities of
Buhari,” written by a civil rights activist and Executive Director of
Gatekeepers Foundation, Mr. Blessing Agbomhere, on Friday.
“Let me use this opportunity to deliver a
message because there may not be another opportunity to deliver it. We
know what is going on in the country today. It has reached the stage
that people are hunting for Buhari not to reach that day of election.
“They have also said that Aisha Buhari
is not a Nigerian. Aisha said I should tell everyone that she is a
Nigerian. Does it even matter if she is not a Nigerian? What has that
got to do with what is happening in this country?” Iliya stated.
Iliya further quoted Buhari’s wife to
have rooted for a woman president in Nigeria in the nearest future as
part of the total change package.
She said, “Aisha said she is pleased
because the author is a young man; this is an indication that our youths
have always understood the problems of this country and they are really
pulling us together to fight a common front and that is change.
“We need change in Nigeria. For the past
six years, we have been suffering; I wish a woman has been President we
wouldn’t have been in this mess. So women, she (Aisha) has asked that I
should encourage you to come out and be part of nation building. We are
powerful; we are strong and stronger than the men.
“Please support women and next time we will have a woman President in Nigeria.”
The APC deputy national publicity
secretary, Mr. Timi Frank, said at the event that the call by the
National Security Adviser, Col. Sambo Dasuki (retd.), for the
postponement of the 2015 elections signified the coming of another “June
12” and that the party and all Nigerians would resist the postponement
of the February elections.
The June 12, 1993 presidential election,
won by the late businessman, Chief Moshood Abiola, was annulled by a
former dictator, Gen. Ibrahim Babangida, thus plunging the country into
years of political crisis.
Frank said, “That call for election
postponement can lead to revolution. If Nigeria were to be a sane clime,
this country would have been on fire because this is another June 12
annulment coming.
“These are part of the comments why
people are stoning the President in the North. People in government
don’t know how to speak and so they will say it is the opposition. When
you anger the people, they will rise up against you. The voice of the
people is the voice of God and that has come to stay.
“The National Security Adviser’s call
for election postponement is a call against the wishes of Nigerians;
that call is anti-people and a call for anarchy. That call for
postponement is the personal view of the NSA. He’s not speaking for
Nigerians. That call for postponement will not stand; we will resist it
in any form.
“One man or a cabal cannot dictate for
Nigerians. For us in APC, elections must hold on February 14 and if the
Peoples Democratic Party is not prepared for election, let them back out
of it. Nigerians are ready for the election and nothing on earth can
change that date.”
Also, a member of Board of Trustees of
APC and former Minister of Information, Prince Tony Momoh, said what
Nigeria needed at the moment was change.
He said the call by Dasuki for the postponement of the 2015 elections was unrealistic.
He said, “The NSA is an individual, he expressed his opinion and he has even denied it.
“INEC said they are prepared; is NSA INEC? He is my friend and I know him very well. I think he was misquoted.
“Why should the elections be violent?
People who want change will not fight, we in APC have been asking for
change. We know we are more than PDP now and so anybody who is asking
for postponement is the one who is not sure of winning the election.
“There will be change; there will be
election and it will be non-violent, it will be free, fair and
transparent. The results will be announced and the heavens won’t fall.”
