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President Muhammadu Buhari has denounced repeated claims by his wife, Aisha, that a cabal is controlling the government, noting that the allegations were purely her business.
According to the Daily Trust, Buhari made his position known in a yet-to-be- aired interview with the Hausa Service of the Voice of America.
In a short teaser of the interview released on social media yesterday, Buhari was asked to clear the several allegations by his wife, Aisha and others that he was not in control of the government.
“That’s her business,” the president retorted, in the report by Daily Trust
“I am a true democrat by allowing everybody to have an opinion,” he said.
The President also challenged all those making allegations about a cabal pulling the strings in his government to unveil the cabal and prove their allegation.
“I challenge those alleging to show single evidence. What they are saying is different from what is happening. They should come out and say those things they feel were stage-managed by the cabal. What the cabal forces me to do. They should mention just one thing,” he said.
Speaking at a leadership summit in Abuja about two weeks ago, Aisha challenged Nigerians to fight the “two or three people who have dominated this government”.
The rebuke was not the first since the advent of this administration in 2015.
Aisha Buhari had in 2016 during an interview with the Hausa Service of British Broadcasting Service (BBC) alleged that her husband was being controlled by a cabal, saying he had no hands in the appointment of most of his ministers.
“The President does not know 45 out of 50 of the people he appointed and I don’t know them either, despite being his wife of 27 years. Some people are sitting down in their homes folding their arms only for them to be called to come and head an agency or a ministerial position,” she alleged.
Apparently angered by the development, she threatened not to campaign for him if things continued that way.
However, when asked by journalists to comment on the matter in Germany during a joint press conference with Chancellor Angela Merkel, President Buhari countered by saying his wife “belongs in the kitchen and also in the other room”.
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