Aisha, the wife of President Muhammadu Buhari, is a sumptuous and enthralling beauty. She is a silken incandescence; a flourishing fluorescence; and a ravishingly bedazzling glowing human pillar with a transfixing and hypnotical effect.
According to reports, this Nigeria’s first lady was only 18 years when she was betrothed to Maj. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari. For 27 years, they’ve had a wonderful life together. From the living room, to “the other room”, and across many more rooms unspoken about, you will agree with me that Heaven has made room for this family both home and abroad.
They sure must have had their own share of bends and curves in life. Buhari was once a military Head of State; then slammed in the calaboose for a few years after a coup-de-tat that tossed him out of power. For 12 agonising years, the retired General sought the highest office in the land as a civilian president. If Buhari had had to cry following every failed political adventure, the unhindered and flowing tears of disappointment must have drenched up Aisha’s succulent shoulders. She’s been his soul mate for long.
Last year, their dreams came to pass in an election that buried the second term dream of the incumbent President Goodluck Jonathan and his ruling party. From the South-West to part of the South-South and South-East sweeping across all northern regions, Buhari was Nigerians’ choice. Men and women worked day-in and night-out to make victory happen. Aisha was in the miry mix of campaign peregrination. She combed every cranny of Nigeria soliciting funds and pitching for human help. She was a radiating voice many women wanted to hear.
Through the gruelling and grinding campaign blitz, a bond was formed among men and women from all across all ethnic blocks. They led Buhari’s election army. But now, those men and women have been sidelined by the President. Aisha and a few Nigerians believe Mr. President is now in the garroting grips of a homegrown cabal. That is the First Lady’s grouse today. These are not her happy hours. If a man’s wife is troubled, he is in trouble. But he may not know it. An unhappy wife, they say, is an unhappy life. There is a bad brew in Buhari’s home.
Frustrated Aisha took her case to the court of public opinion. She complained in what I think was a campaign to “Let my people Go”. She is observing her husband’s faulty moves. A halting economy, a hurting citizenry, an agonising nation, and now an unhappy wife. All because there are a few men and women who are presiding over the President, telling him what and what not to do.
“If things continue like this, I will no longer be part of any movement for 2019”, Aisha told a BBC reporter last week. Did “Sai Baba” ever hint that he’s running for re-election? Aisha said he had not said so. Hhmmn! If the President is thinking about running, he may need to put his house in order first. The woman is not jabbering. She is making sense.
Aisha called to question her husband’s judgment: “…a lot of the appointees for major positions he (the President) doesn’t know. They don’t know our manifesto, our vision, our mission.” She believes that strangers who did not lift a finger to help the All Progressives Congress become party-in-power are now in powerful positions in government. Is that why things aren’t working as fast as they should in Nigeria? Aisha thinks so. Whose agenda are these men then running?
Up till now, a majority of those who run Nigeria’s many agencies and parastatals are carryovers from Jonathan’s administration. Others are just flybys who did not know how the President got where he is today. They just strolled in; and at the appropriate time, they will stroll out; but Aisha will still be stuck with her husband. That is why the beauty is in a rassle and battle with some human beasts who are working on her husband’s mind by the minute.
If enemies want to bring a man down, they first turn him against his wife. Ask some pastors who will tell you the truth. Church people have messed up their homes. They will come very subtly in their manipulative tactics until their target concedes to them crucial times he should have spent with his life partner in fellowship. Ask busy businessmen; many of them have lost their homes because strangers took over their lives; and down they went. Ask politicians; the moment strangers know that you can be a meal voucher, they’ll pull you aggressively to their side; and then pull you down.
Aisha knows what she is saying because she knows what she is seeing. They have turned her husband into a robot. According to her, Buhari has changed. Access may have been cut off. Family meetings may have been proscribed; and family dinner time may now be out of the window. Our President’s time is now managed by the cabal. But when Mr. President has another round of earache, those men and women will not be around to nurse the resultant heartache. Aisha will be. Do Aisha’s insinuations have any basis? Are a few powerful men now in charge of the president’s life? If it is true, then, Nigeria may again be in another round of trouble. Not too long ago, the script was played. Nigeria is today in a hole because a President once fell in that dragnet of gambit and flimflam designed by cabals.
Let it be known that cabals anywhere around the world do not grow the economy; they blow a hole through it. They do not engender a fusion; they elicit confusion. They love a few and hate many. They make you forget the hard and difficult roads you have travelled before actualising your dreams by turning you against your helpers of destiny. Cabals are sinister, self-serving, cold-hearted beasts whose agenda is evil. They hide behind the veil and set to destroy others as they preserve themselves. They control who gets to what positions and sometimes who lives or dies. They cause strifes and promote disharmony in an organisation.
Cabals in Nigeria are usually ethnocentric and driven by religious zealotry. They are mean and monstrous human machines that propagate ethnic hate and religious intolerance. In meetings, they communicate only in their language and condescendingly ask others who are not of their stock to go learn. We find them in shadowy corners, backroom demonic deals and insidious influences and treacherous tantrums. Aisha has not told us their names. She sure knows who they are.
They are now men and women who have the ears of her husband President. Maybe, they are the ones who whispered in the President’s ears that wives belong in the kitchen. Really? Aisha will probably do what she needs to do in Buhari’s kitchen as do voluntarily most wives all around the world; but she is too large to be restricted to even kitchens made of silver, marble and gold. She has now chosen to wrestle with the beasts who are probably setting her husband up for a fall. Beauties don’t do ugly. This beauty will not let anything ugly happen to her man. I join her in the crusade. If these men and women are Presdient Buhari’s newfound friends, may God help him, and May God help Nigeria.
Punch
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