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| President Buhari and First Lady Aisha Buhari |
One’s response to issues often
reflects the individuals level of reasoning and by extension his degree of
intelligence Quotient (IQ). Ofcourse, there are ways we react to issues either
spontaneously or deliberately. Our response therefore, either spontaneous or
deliberate expresses the values that are dear to our heart.
So was Aisha Buhari right in expressing her opinions to the
press and a foreign media at that? The president’s wife expressing her opinion would be considered
normal but speaking to a foreign news media to a large extent was a misnomer,
but come to think of it, President Muhammadu Buhari called for it. From the
expressions recorded by the BBC , it was just an internal family issue, as it is obvious that she had made this
presentation to the President severally prior to her engaging the BBC and one
in which the President failed to handle appropriately. By and large the main
crux of the issue here is that President Buhari is the Chief diplomat of the
country, and Aisha Buhari as the first lady equally has a stake in the image
laundering project of the country as carried by President Buhari. On that
front, I condemn her action. Still, I would affirm that Mr Buhari called for
it.
As earlier pointed, Buhari’s
reaction to an internal family issue that has imploded due to his own failures
raises more doubts about his competences as a leader. President Buhari’s
statements could be viewed from a dual projectile. First, Aisha Buhari is a
woman, an object just like any other object, an item of luxury in the bedroom
or the kitchen utensil, like a piece of future, such that you can do away with
at your convenience. And this is the location of the women folk in Nigeria “ in
the kitchen and the Bedroom” , according to the President.
What informed PMBs reaction; was
his chauvinistic egocentric tendencies, if there is any value as such then that
is it. Especially, voicing his opinion right in the presence of a woman,
benefactor that bestride his personality even as the current President of the
largest country in Africa. Worrisome would be what should form Angela Merkel’s
line of thought as she stood astride the man that has just reduced her person
to a kitchen attendant.
In the psyche of the President,
Aisha Buhari does not belong to the class of the Angela Merkel, Theresa May,
Hillary Clinton, Michelle Obama, Ngozi Okonjo- Iweala, Joyce Banda, Helen
seleaf-Johnson, etc of this world.
Afterall, she was a conquered woman, who was forced into the marriage at age nine(9). Her place is that of
the harem, The Nigerian women has very minimal
worth before the President while
he would celebrate such benefactors like Angela Merkel and Queen Elizabeth.
On the whole; Aisha Buhari as a microcosm of
the Nigerian state. A representation of the President’s perception of the
Nigerian state and her people. Considered here is the Presidents follow up
speech in which he expressed his disdain for the Nigerian people and his Aisha.
That is having contested elections for
consecutive times and succeeding at the fourth try, obviously, he has
conquered the Nigerian state and the people. To him, even under the waves of
democracy, we are at his whims and caprice.
To do and undo. He is lord over Aisha, the women folk and the opposition
and the rest of Nigeria.
Therefore, the wailing and moaning
of the populace meant very little or nothing to him just like Aishas’, Nigeria
is his estate. In recent times, he has declared war on the citizens, war
against percieved enemies cloaked in the garb of a pretentious war against
corruption. Today, the freedom of expression/press and other inaliable human
rights has been trampled under
feet. Democracy has been destroyed as
evidenced in Edo and Kogi States respectively, the rule of law has been
bastardised in Buhari’s conquered Nigeria. That is Buharis’ Aisha and Nigeria.
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