Hajia Aisha Buhari, wife of Maj.-Gen
Muhammadu Buhari, presidential candidate of
the All Progressives Congress, has said that
she is not a foreigner as being speculated in
some quarters.
She spoke through Mrs. Deborah Iliya, a
chieftain of APC in Kaduna State who
represented her at the public presentation of
a book, "Wind of change: 72 leadership
qualities of Buhari," written by a civil rights
activist and Executive Director of Gatekeepers
Foundation, Mr. Blessing Agbomhere, on
Friday.
"Let me use this opportunity to deliver a
message because there may not be another
opportunity to deliver it. We know what is
going on in the country today. It has reached
the stage that people are hunting for Buhari
not to reach that day of election.
"They have also said that Aisha Buhari is not
a Nigerian. Aisha said I should tell everyone
that she is a Nigerian. Does it even matter if
she is not a Nigerian? What has that got to
do with what is happening in this country?"
Iliya stated.
Iliya further quoted Buhari's wife to have
rooted for a woman president in Nigeria in the
nearest future as part of the total change
package.
She said, "Aisha said she is pleased because
the author is a young man; this is an
indication that our youths have always
understood the problems of this country and
they are really pulling us together to fight a
common front and that is change.
"We need change in Nigeria. For the past six
years, we have been suffering; I wish a
woman has been President we wouldn't have
been in this mess. So women, she (Aisha)
has asked that I should encourage you to
come out and be part of nation building. We
are powerful; we are strong and stronger than
the men.
"Please support women and next time we will
have a woman President in Nigeria."
The APC deputy national publicity secretary,
Mr. Timi Frank, said at the event that the call
by the National Security Adviser, Col. Sambo
Dasuki (retd.), for the postponement of the
2015 elections signified the coming of another
"June 12" and that the party and all Nigerians
would resist the postponement of the
February elections.
The June 12, 1993 presidential election, won
by the late businessman, Chief Moshood
Abiola, was annulled by a former dictator,
Gen. Ibrahim Babangida, thus plunging the
country into years of political crisis.
Frank said, "That call for election
postponement can lead to revolution. If
Nigeria were to be a sane clime, this country
would have been on fire because this is
another June 12 annulment coming.
"These are part of the comments why people
are stoning the President in the North. People
in government don't know how to speak and
so they will say it is the opposition. When
you anger the people, they will rise up against
you. The voice of the people is the voice of
God and that has come to stay.
"The National Security Adviser's call for
election postponement is a call against the
wishes of Nigerians; that call is anti-people
and a call for anarchy. That call for
postponement is the personal view of the
NSA. He's not speaking for Nigerians. That
call for postponement will not stand; we will
resist it in any form.
"One man or a cabal cannot dictate for
Nigerians. For us in APC, elections must hold
on February 14 and if the Peoples Democratic
Party is not prepared for election, let them
back out of it. Nigerians are ready for the
election and nothing on earth can change that
date."
Also, a member of Board of Trustees of APC
and former Minister of Information, Prince
Tony Momoh, said what Nigeria needed at
the moment was change.
He said the call by Dasuki for the
postponement of the 2015 elections was
unrealistic.
He said, "The NSA is an individual, he
expressed his opinion and he has even denied
it.
"INEC said they are prepared; is NSA INEC?
He is my friend and I know him very well. I
think he was misquoted.
"Why should the elections be violent? People
who want change will not fight, we in APC
have been asking for change. We know we
are more than PDP now and so anybody who
is asking for postponement is the one who is
not sure of winning the election.
"There will be change; there will be election
and it will be non-violent, it will be free, fair
and transparent. The results will be
announced and the heavens won't fall."
