Senate president Senator Bukola Saraki has been vindicated by the recent
comments made by President Muhammadu Buhari’s wife that the government has
been hijacked from her husband, said an aide to the senate president.
Mrs Aisha Buhari had suggested in an interview with BBC’s Naziru Mikailu
that the rein of the government might have been hijacked from her husband
in spite of famously declaring that he belonged to nobody during his
inauguration.
“The president does not know 45 out of 50, for example, 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.”
Saraki’s special assistant on new media, Bankole Omishore, said on Twitter
that Mrs Buhari’s comments were in line with the senate president’s June
27, 2016 statement.
“It has become clear that there is a government within the government of
President Buhari who have seized apparatus of executive powers to pursue
their nefarious agenda,” said Saraki in a statement at the time.
Omishore said Saraki’s comments, like those of Mrs Buhari, were made in
good faith and that those who bought into the President Buhari’s vision
for Nigeria and campaigned with him were sidelined.
He insisted that the government had been hijacked by those who did not
share the same principles with the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC)
and President Muhammadu Buhari. This, he said, has precluded the
government from delivering on its campaign promises.
“To say there is #govtwithingovt is now an understatement. What baffles me
the most is the fact that they don’t even share same ideology,” Omishore
tweeted.