Buhari Blasts Wife Over Allegation Of Cabal’s Control On President

Muhammadu Buhari, the Nigerian President has given a straight answer seeming to be strong and the final verdict to the protest of the First Lady, his wife, Aisha that the Presidency has been hijacked by cabals.

He dismissed the authenticity of the clamors that he is been manoeuvred by some set of cabals in decision-making as the president.

Mrs Aisha Buhari has been confident to assert on several occasion that
a few people are calling the shot in this administration at the expense of Nigerians who brought it into power.

Speaking at a leadership summit in Abuja earlier in the month, she challenged Nigerians to fight the “two or
three people who have dominated this government”.

“Our votes were 15.4 million in the last elections and after that only for us to be dominated by two people… this is totally unacceptable,” she had said.

“If 15.4 million people can bring in a government and only for the government to be dominated by two people or three people, where are the men of Nigeria? Where are the Nigerian men? What are you doing? Instead of them to come together and fight them, they keep visiting them one after the other licking their shoes (I’m sorry to use
those words).”

In a sharp contrast to this, the 76-year-okd president quickly cleared that his wife was entitled to her opinion, while denying the influence of any sort of cabals in his administration

“Have you heard of the word cabal? People have been alleging that there are some few people in charge of this
administration, that you are not the one in charge. Even your wife said something about this recently, what do you
have to say about this?” the Voice of America (VON)’s journalist had asked him.

Responding, Buhari said: “That’s her business… This shows I am a real democrat… What they are saying is
different from what is happening. They should come out and say those things they feel was staged managed by
the cabal. What the cabal forced me to do. They should mention just one thing.”

Notably, this is not the first time the president would unapologetically clear his wife on the criticism about his leadership style.

The one that caused so much fuss was Buhari’s reply in October 2016 to the wife’s criticism.

The president had told BBC news in the subsequent interview that: “ I don’t know which party my wife belongs to, but she belongs to my kitchen and my living room and the other room.”