“All I’m after is the success of my husband’s administration.” Aisha Buhari Says, As Borno School Is Named After Her

Mrs Aisha Buhari, wife of the President, who recently criticized her husband’s administration in an explosive interview with BBC Hausa (read here) that she may not support him at the 2019 election unless he shakes up his government has openly reiterated her unalloyed support for the success of her husband’s administration.

”The way things are going,” declaring ‘I am not happy’. It was people that brought the government into power. More than half of those people are not appointed into the government.

Some people that are not politicians, not professionals, were brought into government. They don’t even know what we said we want and what we don’t during campaigns,” she said during the interview.

The First lady gave the assurances, especially to her supporters during a visit to Benisheik, one of the liberated towns of Borno State, where she flagged-off the distribution of relief items to displaced rural women under her brain-child ‘Get Involved’ initiative, a sub-component of her pet project, Future Assured.

In addition, Mrs Buhari said, 350 households who were IDPs, but have now returned back to their communities after liberation by troops were to benefit from the exercise and also assured that all communities affected in the course of insurgency in the north east and other crisis prone areas across the country will also benefit from the ‘Get Invloved’ gesture, Vanguard reports.

”What I am after in particular is the success of my husband’s administration and he can’t do it alone except with the help of the governors, their wives and all members of our progressive party.”

She said she was happy that the flag off of the food distribution took place, noting that it was in fulfillment of her husband’s campaign promise to resettle displaced victims of Boko Haram insurgency and rescue all citizen abducted or held by Boko Haram including the Chibok girls.

”We thank almighty Allah that we have started fulfilling some of the campaign promises that we made. This is the essence of leadership; you make a promise and then fulfilled it. We thank my dear husband who make sure peace is returned to the northeast states,” she added.

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Looking calmer and smiling throughout the occasion, Mrs Buhari advised wives of political leaders, governors, legislators, local government chairmen and counsellors to work closely with their husbands for the well-being of the people.

Meanwhile, a modern primary school in Benishiekh was named after her. The newly constructed primary school by Gov. Shettima was named after her in recognition of her immense contribution to the well being of the people.

Nana Shettima, wife of Borno State governor, commended the First lady for the distribution, adding that it was the third time she would visit the state to attend to the humanitarian challenges of Borno people.

She assured that she will continue to collaborate with Mrs Buhari’s Future Assured project through her Support for Widows, Orphans and Tsangaya (SWOT) programme.