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Aisha Buhari

Wife of Nigerian President, Aisha Buhari has made a revelation which tends to support claims by some politicians that the Federal Government has been hijacked by a few powerful individuals working closely with her husband.

In an interview on BBC Hausa, the First Lady said: “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.

“Some people are sleeping in their homes, folding their arms only for them to be called to come and head an agency or ministerial position.

“Some of them don’t even have voter’s card and those who made sacrifices have been reduced to nothing and certainly not happy with the way things are going.”

Aisha Buhari’s claims are coming just when it has become obvious to most Nigerians that the ruling All Progressives Congress already has major cracks tearing through its hierarchy.

Such are the depths of the cracks that the APC’s national leader, Bola Ahmed Tinubu only recently made an open call for the sack of the party’s national chairman, John Odigie Oyegun.

The President’s wife believes there are people who appear determined to cause problems for the APC. She also claimed that there is a group of people who are behind presidential appointments.

Asked by the BBC Hausa interviewer who these people are, she said: “He (President Buhari) 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.”