{"id":69898,"date":"2019-10-17T16:39:54","date_gmt":"2019-10-17T15:39:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=69898"},"modified":"2019-10-17T16:39:54","modified_gmt":"2019-10-17T15:39:54","slug":"aisha-buhari-victim-or-one-of-the-contending-villa-power-players","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/articles-opinions\/aisha-buhari-victim-or-one-of-the-contending-villa-power-players\/","title":{"rendered":"Aisha Buhari: Victim or One of the Contending Villa Power Players?\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jideofor Adibe <\/strong><\/p>\n

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An old video clip in which President Buhari\u2019s wife, Aisha, was seen irate and throwing tantrum in the Villa recently went viral, renewing focus on the First family and their domestic issues.\u00a0 Just before this video, there had been unfounded rumours that President Buhari was set to wed Sadiya Umar Farouq, the Minister of the newly created Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs and Social Development.<\/p>\n

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Upon her return to the country on October 13 2019, after a two-month vacation in the United Kingdom, Aisha Buhari confirmed that she was the woman in the video that went viral and explained the circumstances behind the video:<\/p>\n

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\u00a0<\/em>\u201cI was the one in that video and this person you see standing at my back are my security personnel,\u201d\u00a0<\/em>the First Lady reportedly told BBC Hausa service.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was Fatima, the daughter of Mamman Daura that shot the video in front of my security and everybody there. She was actually recording the whole thing right in front of me and was laughing and mocking me.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cI left them and wanted to get to one of the rooms but they prevented me from getting through, I left them and took another way yet I met the store locked.\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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Fatima Daura had a different version of events:<\/p>\n

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\u00a0<\/em>\u201cWhen she (Aisha) came, the door was locked and she picked a metal chair and broke the door. I have sent the picture to you. My sister that went out was almost hit by the chair. She threw the chair which broke through the door and almost hit my sister.\u201d She said she recorded the incident \u00a0to show her parents \u201cshould anything happen\u201d. <\/em><\/p>\n

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Opinions seem sharply divided on this video: while some see Aisha Buhari as a victim, who is being denied the closeness a wife should naturally share with her husband by the people she called \u2018cabal\u2019 and \u00a0accused of hijacking her husband\u2019s government, others see her as part of the power play in the Villa who is losing out in the power game because she does not want to play by the culturally and religiously accepted rule that a wife must be absolutely submissive, (in public at least),\u00a0 to her husband in order to \u00a0win his trust.<\/p>\n

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Though Mamman Daura is said to have moved out of the Villa, I disagree with those who said that the President shouldn\u2019t have invited him to live with him in the Villa in the first place. Just like some people invite their friends home and treat them as members of their family so can Buhari invite anyone he chooses to invite to share his home in the Villa with him. We sometimes need some people around us for what they mean to us \u2013 either as confidants or as confidence boosters.<\/p>\n

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One Ibrahim Ali Gombe, writing on Facebook,\u00a0 put\u00a0 the relationship \u00a0between Buhari, Mamman Daura and Abba Kyari (another member of the \u2018cabal\u2019 that Aisha Buhari often criticises by innuendo) this way:<\/p>\n

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\u201cMamman Daura and Abba Kyari (Chief of Staff) are two personalities you [Aisha]cannot push away from President Buhari, your husband. Fine, you’re his wife; however, what these two have contributed in the life of your husband is inestimable and unquantifiable. Buhari is Abba Kyari. Abba Kyari is Mamman Daura. Mamman Daura is Buhari. They are inseparable.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Apart from Mamman Daura, Buhari and Abba Kyari being relatives, Ibrahim Ali Gombe also claimed that when Buhari was released from detention after being overthrown by Babangida in 1985, it was Mamman Daura who placed him on a monthly salary through his companies and was in fact a benefactor to the entire Buhari family, including training Aisha\u2019s children abroad. He also claimed that Abba Kyari was Buhari\u2019s chief financier when he ran for the presidency in 2003, 2007 and 2011. If these claims are true, then \u00a0Buhari\u2019s apparent loyalty to both Mamman Daura and Abba Kyari is not just a continuation of their long-standing friendship and blood relationship but also a way Buhari \u00a0expresses his gratitude for their support over the years. Obviously such closeness may rub on the wrong side of many wives. \u00a0Some wives are endlessly fighting their mothers\u2019 in-law or husband\u2019s family precisely because they are seen as competitors for their husbands\u2019 affection and closeness.<\/p>\n

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While it may be difficult to know the underlying causes of disaffection between a man and his wife, I believe that Aisha\u2019s public criticisms of her husband\u2019s policies, to the applause of Buhari\u2019s political opponents, have not \u00a0helped her cause in the power play at the Villa. \u00a0In an article I published in this column on\u00a0 February 1 2018, entitled, \u201cWhy I cannot #Stand with AishaBuhari\u201d I enumerated various ways in which the President\u2019s wife could have possibly misread and complicated her woes by publicly criticising her husband and his government\u2019s policies to the applause of\u00a0 his \u00a0political opponents. Permit me to quote copiously from that piece:<\/p>\n

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\u201c… a wife should not be seen to compete in an area in which her husband is also interested in competing. This may sound sexist – and it is – but it is unfortunately the worldview of the men of Buhari\u2019s generation. And it is also in this context that his remarks about the \u2018other room\u2019 must be understood. It is equally why it is dangerous for Mrs Buhari to listen to those goading her \u2018not to be cowed\u2019 or massaging her ego that she will make a better President than her husband.<\/p>\n

\u201cMrs Buhari may have unwittingly been playing into the hands of her enemies within the government who have reportedly labelled her the \u2018suicide bomber from Adamawa.\u2019 In fact if the President\u2019s cabal have marginalized her and her husband either endorses that marginalization or turns blind eye to it, she should also examine whether she may be unwittingly doing anything that gives the wrong impression that she cannot be trusted.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe challenge for Aisha Buhari therefore is to find a way of reaching accommodation with some of the members of the \u2018cabal\u2019 to ensure she is not completely marginalized in the affairs of the government.\u00a0\u00a0Playing the victim may win sympathies for her, especially from feminist groups, but such may paradoxically even further compound the reported distrust of her in the government.<\/p>\n

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\u201cAnd by the way, despite misgivings about the cabal it is most likely that the President\u2019s confidence in them will have increased by the way they managed his illness and hospitalization. Though many criticized their secrecy over the whole illness, they also managed to ensure that hawks did not carry out a palace coup to remove Buhari during his long hospitalization in the United Kingdom. They equally ensured that he came back probably looking healthier than he was when he left the country so it may be more difficult to delegitimize them in the President\u2019s eyes by fighting them in public.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI believe it is perfectly possible for Aisha Buhari to retain her apparently outspoken nature while defending her husband vigorously in public.\u201d<\/p>\n

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I believe that while the Fatima-Aisha Buhari spat is disrespectful to the First Lady, it cannot be understood outside the relationship between the President and his wife, including his perceptions of her. Buhari, in his late 70s, is an old-generation Nigerian, and this must be borne in mind when evaluating his perceptions and treatments of her. Those Buhari trusts implicitly will naturally take a cue from him and treat his wife as such.<\/p>\n

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The point is that based on that video that went viral, Aisha may have to re-think her strategies and find a way of regaining the trust of her husband. It is often said that in African culture, the most influential wives, especially among Buhari\u2019s generation, are often those who have gained the absolute confidence and trust of their husbands. In this sense, submissiveness and appearing subservient to their husbands (in public at least) are also methods of power play by some women.<\/p>\n

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The point is that many men say their wives are their best critics but that is acceptable to them only because such criticism take place outside the public glare – and therefore believed to be in good faith. There certainly must be other ways and channels for Mrs Buhari to make her feelings about the government known without giving the impression that she is friends with her husband\u2019s political foes or endorsing their positions. This means that public stabs from her would be far more painful to her husband than the stabs of Brutus to his bosom friend Julius Caesar in \u201ceven thou Brutus\u201d.<\/p>\n

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Email: pcjadibe@yahoo.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Twitter: @JideoforAdibe.<\/p>\n

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