Mrs. Buhari's comments vindicated me, said Sarki as he earlier said cabal has hijacked Buhari’s government

 

Dr Bukola Saraki, Nigerian Senate President, said on Friday that he had been vindicated by the recent comment by President Muhammadu Buhari’ wife, Aisha, about her husband’s leadership.

Bukola Saraki said if Mrs. Buhari could come out to openly to express her opinion base on her husband’s appointees that it clearly showed that what he said earlier about Buhari's government been hijacked by cabals is true.

Senate president said on June 27 that some individuals are running their own government under president Buhari's government, whom he claimed has seized all executive powers to pursue their own agenda.

Buhari pushed back the comment saying it's a distraction to his government to take such comment from Bukola Sarki describing them as a figment of Mr. Saraki’s imagination.

But in a recent nterview with the BBC, Mrs. Buhari seems to agree with Mr. Saraki’s position. She criticised her husband’s choices of cabinet members and heads of agencies.

The first lady said her husband packed government with people he barely knows and that they have hijacked his government to their own detriment .

She equally said she may not support her husband's reelection bid if he fails to checkmate his cabinet.

Senate's president quote were conveyed by his media aid Bamikole Omisore, on Friday morning.

Mr. Omisore said Mrs. Buhari’s comment came “months apart” from Mr. Saraki’s own complaint about “the same thing”.

Mr. Omisore said Mr. Buhari and those who criticised Mr. Saraki at the time he made the comments should understand that both the president’s wife and his principal meant well for the administration.

“Aisha Buhari and Bukola Saraki both have the best interest of President Buhari at heart,” Mr. Omisore said in the tweet.

Mr. Omisore further expanded on his principal’s position in a telephone interview with newsmen on Friday morning, saying Mr. Saraki still strongly believes that Mr. Buhari has been sidelined by a few men in his government.

“It is true that we still believe that there’s a government within the government.”
“We do believe that the president has good intention and we’re behind him,” Mr. Omisore said. “But a situation where a few people are in charge does not bode well for the image and the future of our country.”

Mr. Omisore said recent development in which the Minister of Finance openly disagreed with the Governor of Central Bank on economic matters clearly showed that administration officials were taking directives from conflicting authorities.

“A situation where people that work within the executive say one thing and other people that work in the same administration say and even do another thing.

“It shows that people are getting directives from different authorities,” Mr. Omisore said.
Mr. Omisore said Nigerians should pay attention to Mrs. Buhari’s statement because she’s a mother for the whole country.

“Mrs. Buhari is our mother and she has come out to say that the way things are being run, where APC manifesto has been abandoned and the party completely left out of governance, should not continue for too long,” Mr. Omisore said.
Mr. Saraki has been facing corruption charges at the Code of Conduct Bureau since September 2015.

He was also arraigned alongside his deputy, Ike Ekweremadu, in a separate case in which they were accused of forgery in the Senate.
The government withdrew the case a few days ago.

Mrs. Buhari’s explosive interview had rattled the presidency so much that PREMIUM TIMES authoritatively gathered that the officials there pressured the BBC to step down the remaining part of the interview.

BBB, however, vowed to run the full exchange as scheduled.