Zamfara State Governor, Mr. Abdulaziz Yari has said there is absolutely
nothing wrong in his quest to marry Zahra Buhari as his fourth wife to
boost his political chances.
This is even as text messages seen by Pointblanknews.com while the
Governor was shopping at the Apple Store on 5th Avenue, New York City,
shows him apologizing to Zahra over the reports of his relationship with
her.
Yari is 49, according to his biography while Zahra who just graduated from
a British University turned 21, December 18, 2015.
President Mohammadu Buhari had given a stern warning to his daughter,
Zahra, to stay away from Governor Abdulaziz Yari of Zamfara State who has
made several moves to marry the pretty daughter of the President,
Presidential sources had told Pointblanknews.com.
Yari, notorious for engaging in political marriages, in his reaction to
Pointblanknews.com report on his desperation to marry the President’s
youngest daughter said he is not the first to desire to marry a 21year
old.
“What is wrong wanting to marry Zahra, am I the first to marry a young
girl, have you not heard of people marrying 12yr old girls and what is
wrong boosting my political chances,” Yari told Pointblanknews.com through
his Media Aide, Mallam Ibrahim Dosara in a twelve minutes’ telephone
conversation.
Dosara who also expressed anger over Pointblanknews.com reports exposing
the Governor’s N400million unappropriated funds spent on a one day visit
of Buhari said no fund like that was spent. Even though the Governor had
owned up to spending N400million during the July 13 visit of the
President, when confronted by some officials in the Presidency.
Pointblanknews.com had reported that the Zamfara Governor is currently at
the UN Millennium Hotel, New York, where the President and his families
are lodged as a member of the Federal Government’s delegations to the
United Nations General Assembly.
Governor Yari said to be desperately interested in marrying Zahra to boost
his political chances is using the opportunity of the U.S trip to fine
tune his marriage plans and sending emissaries to persuade the President
to rescind his earlier stonewalling.
Sources told Pointblanknews.com that the Zamfara Governor has gone as far
as dolling out gifts to the first lady and other members of the Buhari
family.
He is also alleged to have funded the First Lady’s recent Hajj trip to
Saudi Arabia with $1million.
Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State had earlier been rumored to be
interested in the President’s daughter.
Yari, has as part of his moves enlisted the husband of Halima, elder
daughter of Buhari, showered him gifts including awarding him contracts in
Zamfara state to persuade the first family into accepting his overtures to
marry the President’s daughter who just graduated from a British
University.
“He has not only been using Halima’s husband, he has also reached out to
the first lady and showered her with several gifts including money when
she was going for the Hajj. I think the First Lady is playing along.”
Governor Yari’s desperation to marry Zahra is a subject of discussion in
Gusau Government House where senior officials condemn the Governor’s
desperation.
A Government source told Pointblanknews.com that in spite of the lean
resources of the Governor, he makes available cash gifts running into
several millions to the First Lady, Halima’s husband and other members of
the Buhari’s family in a bid to have them convince President Buhari who
has frowned at the Governor’s antic.
“Things are not going well here in Gusau. The story is everywhere and we
are particularly not happy with the fact that state resources have now
been committed into wooing the President’s daughter. It is very
embarrassing the way the Governor is going about it, an official at the
Government House, Gusau told Pointblanknews.com.
The source who shares family relationship with the Governor said the only
stumbling block is the President who has given a stern warning to his
daughter to stay away from Governor Yari. “The President wants his
daughter to marry someone not as old as Governor Yari,” according to the
source.
Sources told Pointblanknews.com that the Governor argued that the
President does not have the moral right to reject his overtures to marry
Zahra on account of age because Buhari is over 30years older than Aisha.
The Zamfara Governor is notorious with Political Marriages. His third wife
is the daughter of Umaru Shinkafi, a popular Politician in Zamfara State.
Yari married her to get political blessings for his Governorship ambition.
“Yari is a politician who wants to survive at all cost. He married his
third wife, the daughter of Shinkafi and got the support of the people of
Zamfara because of Shinkafi. Shinkafi is dead now and the people are not
happy with him so he wants Buhari’s daughter because that is what may
guarantee him survival in 2019,” a source close to the Governor said.
Sources told Pointblanknews.com that Yari is eyeing the Presidency or a
Senate seat in 2019 and would need to solidify his base by marrying the
daughter of the President to edge out any opposition.
A source in Gusau said Governor Yari is contemplating taken over from
Senator Sani Yerima whose relationship with President Buhari has waned.
Mr. Abdulaziz Yari who runs a haulage business in Washington DC and hardly
stays in Nigeria, allegedly collected over N400million from the state
coffers without appropriation by the State House of Assembly to entertain
President Mohammadu Buhari’s visit to the state in July, 2016.
His incessant absence from Gusau has almost grounded Government activities
and politicians are currently ganging up against him.